One of my favorite days this past quarter was putting three “first-time-homebuyers” into contract on the same Tuesday in June – that was a first (no pun intended) for my career.
One (of the three first-time-homebuyer’s) clients I had met a faithful Saturday late-afternoon in downtown Bend. After hearing that she was a new mom, recently had moved to Bend and shared with me that she would love to find a house before returning to work from maternity leave on Wednesday, or four days away. I told her that if she was serious, we could work to make it happen. She laughed, took my flyer, left her contact information with a note saying she’d like to connect with a local lender to learn about her buying power. Never shy from a challenge, over the next 36-hours, my new client and her husband not only got pre-approved by my “A” team mortgage lender, Garrett Myers of Elev8 Mortgage, but identified “the” perfect home, saw the property twice, put in a competitive offer and two-and-a-half days later found out we were the winning bid (of three competing offers – one of which was all cash). As it happened to be, she and her family were in-contract before she returned to work that very next Wednesday – four days after we met.
With our everchanging market, making sure my first-time-homebuyers are getting a great “locked” rate from a mortgage broker who specializes in first-time-homebuyers is essential. In my tenure, the catalysis for success relies on the following: listening to my client’s goals, being hyper organized, fundamentally able to devise a bespoke plan for success and ALWAYS maintain a “client centric” mentality; simply, it is my job to meet or exceed my client’s real estate goals and objectives. Period. Full stop. End of sentence.
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