Tuesday, December 10, 2013

First Time Home-Buyers - with The Red Sign Team

We love our new home!  We have lived here for nearly 2 months now and we love it more every day.  A huge thanks to the Red Sign team for helping us find and finance our home.

The Red Sign team helped us through the entire process.  We are first time home buyers and we were not very educated regarding the process of finding and buying a home.  The Red Sign team provided helpful resources that helped us to understand the vocabulary and feel like informed home buyers.

We started out by looking at their site, http://www.utahrealestate.com/, to look at various houses.  We looked at several houses a day, just trying to get a feel for what kind of house we wanted and how much we should expect to pay for such a house.  Red Sign's preferred lender was able to quickly get us pre-qualified for a loan so that we knew about how much we could afford.

One day we found a house online that looked perfect for us.  We really wanted to see it, so we contacted our Red Sign agent.  We were hoping to see it the coming Saturday, but our agent found out that the house already had two offers and would soon be closing.  She said we could see it that evening, so we rushed off to see the house.  We had our first walk-through and loved it.  We knew it had already received two offers, so we were nervous that we wouldn't get the bid, but our Red Sign agent gave us some advice to help increase our chances.  We found out a couple days later that we got the bid!

Once we got the bid, the Red Sign team helped us every step of the way.  Closing was just a few weeks away, so we didn't have a lot of time.  Despite the short time period, the Red Sign team helped everything flow smoothly.  The lender was able to process our loan very quickly (during the government shutdown, even) and with very few hiccups.  Our loan officer let us know all of our options and made sure that we got the best deal.  Before we knew it, the loan was processed and we were able to pick up the keys and move in!

Overall, the Red Sign team was helpful, friendly, and professional.  They made our first home-buying experience a great one.  Even now that we've moved in and have lived here for a couple of months, they still invite us to free events that they host, like an early premier of Catching Fire and other fun family activities.  If you are thinking of buying a home, contact the Red Sign team.  You'll be glad you did!

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