Best Real Estate, Albion CA

Category & Type :

Restaurants

Location :

32170 Albion Ridge Road , Albion CA

Phone :

707-937-2378

Website :

http://www.bestres.com/

Information about Best Real Estate...

First licensed as real estate salesperson 1992. Licensed - fully independent - real estate broker since 1995. President of Coastal Mendocino Association of Realtors 1998 and 1999. Coastal California resident for almost 50 years. Former director of California Association of Realtors, Rural and Environmental Committees, Coastal Mendocino Association of Realtors and Multiple Listing Services. Founded Realtor's Scholarship Fund to benefit local students involved in community service and the arts.

Skills in construction, renovation, remodeling, restoration and preservation. Active involvement in the arts, primarily music. National marketing, promotional, merchandising and sales experience. Prolific sales experience and in-depth familiarity with local property, people, politics, buildings, building practices, neighborhood(s) and environmental conditions.

World travel to over 20 countries. Grown children, long-term married, two dogs, one cat; lots of relatives living nearby. Love of nature and care for living beings. Feed birds daily. Pro-peace. Novice and aspiring potato farmer.

My wish for you in your moving here* is that you find and develop great happiness, friendship, abundant health, peace of mind, right livelihood, love, community and all the benefits and prosperity arising from these qualities shared in your life. There are many graces here awaiting your arrival. You're invited.

Best's Buyer's Guide

This guide is to help your property buying experience anywhere in the continental United States, if not the world. It is for use whether or not you are working with a real estate professional and designed to save you time, money, and stress.

ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL to all purchases is your due diligence, your duty to yourself to thoroughly assess your investment to be. INSPECT AND VERIFY all possible aspects and representations of the property. Visit the Planning, Building and Environmental Health Departments of your County Offices and pull, copy and study any files on the property you are planning on buying. BE CERTAIN YOU HAVE RECEIVED ALL REQUIRED DISCLOSURES ABOUT THE PROPERTY AND UNDERSTAND THEM BEFORE SIGNING AND RETURNING THEM TO AGENTS AND SELLER.

1. Examine your motivation to buy.

2. Do as much groundwork and investigation of the property as possible yourself. Get market stats and sales records for the general area you are considering buying in so you know how things (prices, conditions, list to selling price ratios) stack up in your neighborhood.

Allow yourself room to move inside your contract; ideally all points of negotiation are settled before both you and a seller sign your final agreement AND there will be many small issues that will arise inside of your transaction that you may need assistance with from the seller. Beware the seller that makes no concessions and will not compromise in common sense and fair ways.

3. Trust your own opinions and feelings about the buying process, the property, and the people you are working with.

4. Seek counsel from qualified real estate professionals and inspectors; evaluate advice carefully. Take any opinion with a grain of salt; everyone has his or her own agenda. We all (people and professionals - ideally of the same species) make mistakes and can miss details; it is crucial that you ask all and any questions that you have no matter how small or stupid you may think the question may be. Do not be afraid to point out details that you think someone in your employ may have missed and ask about them. Remember that the professionals are still (hopefully) learning, too.

5. Obtain seller financing whenever possible; you'll probably save a fortune. Shop for rates. Work with local vendors and lenders if you can; they'll save you so much grief and help keep "the love" in your community

6. Think of the long term, short term, big and little "picture."

7. Visualize perfection having brfiefly considered failure (not getting the property you want or getting it and then finding out that it's just not going to work for you; worst-case-scenario exploration), then create your success.

8. Talk with the neighbors, take your time, work with people around whom you're comfortable.

9. Have fun.

10. Expect the unexpected.

11. I cannot stress this enough: Heighten your awareness of all that goes on around you. Are your neighbors spraying pesticides near your well? Are the deer still going to be able to pass through your yard? Please consider your impacts on smaller creatures - underfoot, unseen, flying, swimming, crawling, jumping, chirping, sliding; trying to make a living just like you and me - where you will (ideally) live in harmony with your world. Just imagine no birds and no bees... Where would we be then?

Consider (your) resources, population growth, local, regional, and global trends.

12. Be prepared to take risks.

13. Remember: you are only in control of yourself - or not - and there are many conditions and circumstances in the buying process completely out of your control; accept these and sleep better.

14. Create and maintain goodwill.

15. Ask lots of questions.

16. Choose your service providers carefully.

17. Find all the boundaries and corner markers of your property, crawl around under the house, move stuff away from the walls, notice details; open every door, window, cupboard, attic, cabinet and look inside carefully. Turn on every switch, check every electrical outlet.

18. Specify in writing exactly what personal property is included with your purchase and make sure that it's there before you close your transaction.

19. Encourage the seller or an agent to purchase a home warranty for you; it will save everybody involved in the sale much worry.

20. Examine all documents very carefully and be sure that language cannot be interpreted to your disadvantage.

21. Do what you agree to do; act according to the terms of your contract. Similarly, pay very close attention to what people say and even closer attention to the written word; fortunately or unfortunately in the state of California spoken words do not hold water when it comes to real estate transactions.

22. Stay on the ball; remember your goals.

23. Be prepared to walk away from any transaction and move on to the next (and probably better) opportunity.

23. Avoid hostility. There is absolutely no reason for you or anyone to accept rudeness or abuse. You want to do business in a positive environment; negative and hostile clients are often litigious (meaning they will sue you if they can) and will bring you more grief than anyone deserves. There may be life lessons in witnessing or receiving vituperative behavior - but hey! Do you like it?

24. Ask for references.

25. Work to obtain and bind insurance coverage on your prospective purchase as soon as possible.

26. Be patient - and firm.

27. Celebrate your successes!

28. When you buy a property that has tenants that need to move out before you move in, make sure that your contract calls for the tenants' possession of the property to be terminated before the seller gets paid and your transaction closes.

29. Contact Best Real Estate Services for advice.

30. Listen, listen, LISTEN.... Pay close attention to all of what you hear... Actually, pay close attention to all of your sensory input from property, people, papers and professionals... Does the property smell good? What is that sound? what are those pipes sticking out of the ground? Why is it always windy here? Verify what? Trust me? Trust yourself.

31. Send me an email about what you think Buyers need to know.