Create Your Real Estate Team

By Marisa C Bentley, Realtor

Want to buy a home? Don’t quite know where to start? Create your real estate team to make the purchase easy!

I was impressed the other day by a savvy real estate investor. We were working together for the first time, because of a referral from a great loan officer. Because we were submitting an offer on a short sale, we needed to have a preliminary settlement statement done up. I, of course, have several title companies I could recommend. Nope! This investor didn’t even need to hear my recommendations. He’d used one particular title company several times and was staunchly loyal to them. Even though I’ve never used that particular title company before, I know we’ll have a great experience because he has such confidence in them.

What does this have to do with you? Real estate is a big investment and can be a little overwhelming if you don’t have a qualified team to make the process as smooth as possible. If you don’t have a mortgage officer you trust, before you go searching on your own, ask your Realtor, or vice versa. They’ve been in the industry long enough they will know who to recommend you to.

Get into real estate with someone you trust; but if you don’t have someone, go with someone they trust!