Buying a Home in Salt Lake City, UT

A recent RISMedia article stated that only 22% of home buyers are happy with their real estate agent.

I wondered why this might be, and reading the article didn't really shed any new light on the reasons. Strangely enough, the article talked more about complaints from Sellers, such as, "The agent priced my home too high, so it took too long to sell".

Still, there was some mention of Buyers who felt that the process was not adequately explained, loan terms were not adequately disclosed, or simply felt that their agent was looking out more for themselves, and not for the buyer.

I don't know exactly what percent of past clients are happy with our services, but I feel confident in saying that the number approaches near 100%. (Read some of our past client reviews here)

A few reasons clients are satisfied with our Exclusive Buyer Agency services:

• We always represent the Buyer, and ONLY The Buyer. We never list homes or represent sellers.
  
• Our focus is on educating the client and answering their questions, allowing them to make their own decisions; and we respect the decisions the client makes.
• We understand the process and the mortgage process and options. We will help them understand it too, and help them properly shop for a loan if requested.
• We are specialists. We don't wear multiple hats. We are good at what we do because we focus on Buyer representation at all times.
• We continue to improve our own understanding of the home buying process. We stay current with changes to laws and procedures and changes in the marketplace.
• We don't work with grumpy people. Grumpy persons are not a protected class. If you are sour, angry, or otherwise rude, ungrateful or disrespectful, we will not accept you as a client. We enjoy our job and enjoy working with intelligent, happy people. This, in turn, makes us more pleasant to work with as well!

Are you an intelligent, happy person who wants to ENJOY the homebuying experience?

If you have excellent credit and will be buying a $300,000-$800,000 home within 90 days and would like an agent who will work exclusively for you, make sure you get an Agent on YOUR side of the transaction! Make sure you hire an E B A!

Call us at (801) 969-8989 or contact us via the link on this page.

©2010 Homebuyer Representation, Inc. - "The Real Estate Agents on the Buyer's Side" ^TM - Salt Lake City, UT

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Finally...

Exclusive Buyer's Agents do not list homes for sale and never represent Sellers. They have no "inventory" to try and push on you. They can represent you in purchasing any home. They are specialists at representing Buyers ONLY on the Buyer's side of the transaction. Exclusive Buyer's Agents work to get BUYERS the Best Price and Terms when they Buy a home...

After making multiple visits to a property with a size, layout and price that all seemed "too good to be true" my client decided to make an offer. It wasn't until that point when it was disclosed to us that the property had been used as a meth lab and that cleanup of the property had not yet happened. In fact, it was being sold AS-IS, all cleanup and liability was being passed on to the buyer.

Well, now everything made more sense. But what bothered me most was that this information was not stated up front.

We probably spent over an hour in the house. What if my clients had brought an infant and let it crawl around on the floor that whole time? What if one of them had respiratory problems that were exacerbated by visiting the home? As far as we can tell, nobody was harmed by the experience, but we should have known about the hazardous condition before we went through the place, right?

I found some old posts on meth houses and methamphetamine remediation here on ActiveRain which I shared with my client.

Here are a few that may benefit some other people:

Meth Labs

Identifying Meth Impacted Homes

REO and Meth Labs - Read This, It's Good

DEA Meth Lab Registry for homes that were used as meth labs - Did you know?

In every case where we have found properties that are WAY too good to be true... they are.

So, buyer beware!

If you have excellent credit and will be buying a $300,000-$800,000 home within 90 days and would like an agent who will work exclusively for you, make sure you get an Agent on YOUR side of the transaction! Make sure you hire an E B A!

Call us at (801) 969-8989 or contact us via the link on this page.

©2010 Homebuyer Representation, Inc. - "The Real Estate Agents on the Buyer's Side" ^TM - Salt Lake City, UT

Exclusive Buyers Agents (EBA) - All Rights Reserved

Finally...

Exclusive Buyer's Agents do not list homes for sale and never represent Sellers. They have no "inventory" to try and push on you. They can represent you in purchasing any home. They are specialists at representing Buyers ONLY on the Buyer's side of the transaction. Exclusive Buyer's Agents work to get BUYERS the Best Price and Terms when they Buy a home...

Old news, but good news.

Utah moved from 5th healthiest state to 2nd healthiest state in the U.S.

Utah ranked either first or second in the following categories:

• Prevalence of smoking
• Infant mortality
• Cancer deaths
• Prevalence of binge drinking
• Children in poverty
• Preventable hospitalizations.

Vermont ranked as the Healthiest State.

Article Link

Moving to the 2nd Healthiest State?

If you have excellent credit and will be buying a $300,000-$800,000 home within 90 days and would like an agent who will work exclusively for you, make sure you get an Agent on YOUR side of the transaction! Make sure you hire an E B A!

Call us at (801) 969-8989 or contact us via the link on this page.

©2010 Homebuyer Representation, Inc. - "The Real Estate Agents on the Buyer's Side" ^TM - Salt Lake City, UT

Exclusive Buyers Agents (EBA) - All Rights Reserved

Finally...

Exclusive Buyer's Agents do not list homes for sale and never represent Sellers. They have no "inventory" to try and push on you. They can represent you in purchasing any home. They are specialists at representing Buyers ONLY on the Buyer's side of the transaction. Exclusive Buyer's Agents work to get BUYERS the Best Price and Terms when they Buy a home...

We relocated from California at the end of last summer, and having sold our home there, we were excited to begin looking for a new one in the Sugarhouse area.  Initially, we were using a listing agent that was set up for us by the relocation company. 

When it became clear that this arrangement wasn’t working out, we decided to find an agent that was more attentive to our needs and interests.

Our Exclusive Buyers Agent has been excellent at every stage of helping us to acquire our new home.  We had absolutely no pressure to look in particular areas, or to limit the number of homes that we wanted to see, or to rush as we looked at homes.  He set us up with an account, where we were able to store and track homes that we wanted to see, and rate and make comments on homes that we had seen.

On many occasions, he was able to point out characteristics of a home’s location and condition that would affect its value, that we did not observe ourselves.  Whenever we were narrowing in on a property, he would do detailed research for us, so that we would know what range of price was reasonable, and then upon our request, he would submit our offer. 

After almost 5 months of house hunting, we expanded our search area, and soon after, we found a home in the Avenues.  Our Exclusive Buyer's Agent did a terrific job of negotiating and we got the home for $12,600 less than asking price.  We really believe that our agent wanted the best possible deal for us. 

The communication level with our EBA has been beyond excellent.  If you text, phone, or email him, he gets it right away, and gets back to you quickly.  Although it was not the norm, we did have a few late night phone calls with him when we had an offer pending, or something critical to resolve. His level of service was so high that we felt like his only clients.

One of the best things that our EBA did for us was to have us shop our loan in such a way that we could get an “apples-to-apples” comparison, to find out which loan originator truly had the best deal.  We thought that using the bank recommended by our relocation company, and getting the 1% off the loan that went with using them, would be the best deal by far, but after researching a total of 6 different loan sources, it turns out that the worst deal was the one given us through the relocation company recommendation.

If you are on the fence about using an Exclusive Buyer’s Agent, we can only say that it has been an extremely rewarding experience for us, and in the future, we will only be buying homes with their services.

If you have excellent credit and will be buying a $300,000-$800,000 home within 90 days and would like an agent who will work exclusively for you, make sure you get an Agent on YOUR side of the transaction! Make sure you hire an E B A!

Call us at (801) 969-8989 or contact us via the link on this page.

©2010 Homebuyer Representation, Inc. - "The Real Estate Agents on the Buyer's Side" ^TM - Salt Lake City, UT

Exclusive Buyers Agents (EBA) - All Rights Reserved

Finally...

Exclusive Buyer's Agents do not list homes for sale and never represent Sellers. They have no "inventory" to try and push on you. They can represent you in purchasing any home. They are specialists at representing Buyers ONLY on the Buyer's side of the transaction. Exclusive Buyer's Agents work to get BUYERS the Best Price and Terms when they Buy a home...

Benjamin Clark of Homebuyer Representation, Inc. in Salt Lake City, Utah, helped me find and buy my home. He was an excellent agent in all ways and I recommend him wholeheartedly to any potential home buyer.

Because he is an Exclusive Buyer's Agent, Ben was wholly dedicated to my cause throughout what turned out to be a 4-1/2 month long process.

He was enormously helpful, dedicated, persistent, knowledgeable, proactive, and consistently agreeable and pleasant.

His negotiating skills are impressive.

He makes great efforts to stay current in his field.

I enjoyed our association and greatly appreciate his work and his approach.

I am convinced that he will always put the interests of his clients first, and will never rush through a sale or fail to point out, based on his considerable experience, potential drawbacks in a property that might adversely affect its value.

Thanks to him, I am now in a lovely home that I purchased for an incredibly good price, at the end of a process that he made as smooth as humanly possible.

If you are looking for an Exclusive Buyer’s Agent of exceptional capability and honesty, you can not find a person better able to represent you than Ben.

Helen
Non-Profit Administration
Salt Lake City, UT

If you have excellent credit and will be buying a $300,000-$800,000 home within 90 days and would like an agent who will work exclusively for you, make sure you get an Agent on YOUR side of the transaction! Make sure you hire an E B A!

Call us at (801) 969-8989 or contact us via the link on this page.

©2010 Homebuyer Representation, Inc. - "The Real Estate Agents on the Buyer's Side" ^TM - Salt Lake City, UT

Exclusive Buyers Agents (EBA) - All Rights Reserved

Finally...

Exclusive Buyer's Agents do not list homes for sale and never represent Sellers. They have no "inventory" to try and push on you. They can represent you in purchasing any home. They are specialists at representing Buyers ONLY on the Buyer's side of the transaction. Exclusive Buyer's Agents work to get BUYERS the Best Price and Terms when they Buy a home...

U.S. President Barack Obama met Thursday with the President of the National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents to express his support for the efforts of the consumer friendly non-profit association which educates consumers about their right to equal representation in the real estate transaction.

The President just recently became aware of Exclusive Buyer Agency at a joint meeting of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. He was intrigued by a section within HUD's new guidebook, which details ways in which consumers can protect themselves when buying a home and obtaining a mortgage loan.

In his remarks, he stated that Exclusive Buyer Agency, or hiring a real estate company that will represent only you as a buyer, "just makes sense."

"Now, let me be clear..." he said. "I've bought and sold a number of homes over the years, but I've never heard of Exclusive Buyer Agency. Being guaranteed in writing, up-front, that my agent would not ask me to limit my level of representation... ever... regardless of the home I wanted to buy... I didn't know that type of real estate brokerage existed."

When asked what he thought about the growing trend of buyers to seek out and hire Exclusive Buyer's Agents to represent them in their real estate transactions he said, "These are the types of change we hope to hear about in the real estate and financial sectors. I congratulate the National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agency and its members for all they do to educate consumers, and to protect consumers throughout the home buying process. From NAEBA, consumers can get clear information they can understand about the home buying process."

The head of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, speaking at a press conference in Washington last Monday, also gave his endorsement. "Exclusive Buyer Agency levels the playing field in the real estate transaction. Sellers usually have an agent on their side of the transaction. Now Buyers can have equal representation."

If you have excellent credit and will be buying a $300,000-$800,000 home within 90 days and would like an agent who will work exclusively for you, make sure you get an Agent on YOUR side of the transaction! Make sure you hire an E B A!

Call us at (801) 969-8989 or contact us via the link on this page.

©2010 Homebuyer Representation, Inc. - "The Real Estate Agents on the Buyer's Side" ^TM - Salt Lake City, UT

Exclusive Buyers Agents (EBA) - All Rights Reserved

Finally...

Exclusive Buyer's Agents do not list homes for sale and never represent Sellers. They have no "inventory" to try and push on you. They can represent you in purchasing any home. They are specialists at representing Buyers ONLY on the Buyer's side of the transaction. Exclusive Buyer's Agents work to get BUYERS the Best Price and Terms when they Buy a home...

Full Disclosure:

THIS ARTICLE IS AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE! (Except the part about buyers of real estate being able to hire agents who will only work for them and not against them. That part is true!)