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Meet the neighbors before you get too deep into escrow please... Advice by a Sellers Only Agent! · Connor with Honor: AI, Real Estate and Real Life

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  SPEAKER_00: If I've said it once, I've said it at least five or six times.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most important step for a home buyer is to meet those neighbors, and you want to do it before you get too deep in the process.
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  SPEAKER_00: It would be best to do it before you start spending any money at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: When would that be?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, after your offer gets accepted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, after your offer gets accepted, you're going to have a time frame.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're going to have a particular amount of time to take you through all your inspection process, to get disclosures from the seller, to get some stuff from the HOA if it happens to have one.
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  SPEAKER_00: These CCRs, these documents, you really need to go through because it's going to say a lot in there.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's going to tell you if they can raise that HOA fee.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's going to tell you how many dogs you can have in some cases.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's going to tell you if you want to replace a bush out front, what that's going to cost.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of things with the HOA, so you want to study that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this is your inspection time.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the time to make sure that this house is really what you want.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't represent buyers anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: I did that for 21 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for the last seven, I've been doing this 28 since 1998, and for the last seven sellers only.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I do like good buyers.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like buyers to be represented by good agents.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like them to come to my sellers' listings and to do the right thing and have all their ducks in a row before they pull the trigger on anything that is real estate.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a long time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sellers have their own set of rules and decisions they have to adhere to.
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  SPEAKER_00: But on the buyer end of it, you need to do your due diligence.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you need that proper agent to be able that you can vet to be able to protect you all the way through the process.
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  SPEAKER_00: You should meet those neighbors, though.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the number one thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You need to go bang on those doors, drag your agent with you if they're uncomfortable with that process.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I don't know what to tell you, but they should go with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, it's an opportunity for them to maybe meet a potential seller or buyer.
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  SPEAKER_00: You go meet them, you talk to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: The people you want to talk to are going to be the people that are going to have the most impact on the residents.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want to talk to the ones that have boundaries, property boundaries that border your property boundaries.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also the ones across the street, you're going to be seeing them, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: You're going to be leaving the house, coming home, you're going to be seeing them, identify them, find out who they are.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the people behind you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you share some kind of a hillside or a slope.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's very common out here in Santa Clarita Valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: But those people that have fences shared with yours, a lot of properties have shared fences.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want to talk to them too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe something happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe somebody breaks the fence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe your kids are overzealous.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe they have a boy band next door.
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  SPEAKER_00: They work on motorcycles in the back garage, back side on the weekend, and you know, it's going to be a mess.
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  SPEAKER_00: You got to go meet these people, find out who they are.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the biggest piece of advice I can give you when it comes to buyer selling real estate.
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  SPEAKER_00: All that other stuff is kind of self-protected.
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  SPEAKER_00: But these are things that really aren't in anybody's book.
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  SPEAKER_00: And agents don't like to talk about it because I mean, you could run into that ex wife you had a restraining order against 20 years ago and might not want to live there anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you go meet them, yeah, go meet them.
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  SPEAKER_00: You need to go find out who's around you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Connor with HonorsellersonlyAgent.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be safe out there.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll see you in the next one.