The Florida Home Buying Process can be a very easy and enjoyable experience when you use the services of the right real estate professional. You may be unsure about the home buying process in Florida, and I understand how confusing it may seem. This is why I wanted to share some key points about the home buying process.
Your First Step: Getting Pre-Qualified by a Lender. It is imperative to your home buying process that you are Pre-Qualified by a lender before you start looking at homes. Your qualification will tell you how much of a mortgage you can get and home much home you can buy. Your pre-qual is important to make an offer in a timely fashion. Your pre-qualification or Pre-Approval letter MUST accompany your offer on the home.
Your Second Step: Your offer was accepted and now you must deliver your escrow, if you haven't done so already.
Your Third Step: Mortgage application. I will send your mortgage professional a copy of the contract. Your job is to call them and get your mortgage application going. Your contract will state that you have a certain number of days to apply for the mortgage. I will generally write 3 or 5 days depending if there is a weekend. **contracts use calendar days**
Your Fourth Step: Inspections. Your offer is accepted and the contract has been signed by all parties. Now the clock is ticking and we have a limited number of days to perform all inspections and decide based on the inspections whether or not you continue with the purchase. If you decide to not buy the home you must notify the seller in writing within your inspection period as stated in the contract.
Your Fifth Step: Insurance. In Florida you will need to purchase your first years insurance policy in full prior to closing. You can have your insurance held in escrow by your lender and pay it in your monthly payment. If you do this, you still need to pay for your first year of insurance up front and prior to closing. **cash buyers need not do this**
Your Sixth Step: Wire Transfer to the Attorney or Title Company conducting the closing. One to two days before closing you can wire your funds to close to the Title company.
Your closing funds must be received by the closing agent in order to close on your home purchase.
Your Seventh Step: Walk Through. You have the ability to conduct a final walk through the day before or the day of your closing. The purpose of the walk through is to verify that any repairs were completed and that the home is empty. If you requested repairs, do your walk through the day before closing to give you time to have them repaired in case they weren't.
Your Eighth Step: Closing. Your closing funds are already sent. Your walk through is completed and you are ready to get the keys to your new home. If you are present at the closing, you get your keys that day. When we meet at closing you will need to have your drivers license with you. The title agent will sit us down, take your license and go make copies. Then we sign a lot of paper work for your mortgage lender and the title agent will take those pages and send them off to the lender for approval. When they return we continue signing a lot of other paperwork for the deed and disclosures. Generally, when we are done with the second round of paperwork the mortgage company approved the package that was sent and we are good to go and congratulations are in order and you receive the keys to the home you just purchased.
requires the assistance of an experienced and knowledgeable real estate professional. The Gulf Home Sales Team feels that marketing of your waterfront home is very important to attract the right buyers and procure a qualified buyer to purchase your Florida waterfront home.
First we will put a great deal of focus on your homes photos. We shoot many many photos of your home. We take a lot of photos because we know that once they are uploaded to our editing software, the pictures may look different than they did on the camera screen. (We NEVER use cell phones for photos) We will look at your photos and run them through our photo editing software to make sure the pictures of your home are the best possible photos used in your marketing.
important. More than 95% of all home buyers start their home search online. You need to be competitive in this online advertising platform and we have the knowledge and experience to get this job done for you. Your waterfront home will get it's own website that we create for you as part of our marketing platform. This website will be shared on all of oyur homes marketing.
Open House. That's right I said "open house". Properly marketing your home requires an open house. You may decide not to do one and that's fine but here is why we want you to do one. Waterfront buyers are not the same as non waterfront buyers. People will want to see the canal or river your home is on.
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