Why Buy a Active Adult Home With Us?
Looking buy an active adult home in Arizona?
With all the choices in real estate agents (especially in Arizona) how do you know you found the right one online? The short answer is “often you don’t” which is why our Free Service is such a wise decision. We have 20+ years experience in real estate and understand what to look for in a great agent. Now we can put that work in use for you, of course at No Cost or Obligation.
So why should you work with us? Here’s a just a few of the reasons:
- We do the work for you! No more surprises when you meet your agent or when they don’t show up.
- The agent we suggest specialize in the Arizona active adult communities and have spent years learning all the subtle differences.
- These agents understand the complexities of buying a home that you go through when you’re relocating to a new area.
- When buying a second or retirement home you often are not in town for the inspection, closing or even to meet contractors after the closing. The agents we recommend are happy to meet the inspector, do your final walk through and even help with contractors after the closing.
- And last but not least, our service is FREE!
The Buying Process Explained
Contact Us
Use any of the forms throughout the website to reach out to us and we will get the process started. Our services cost you nothing and of course you are never obligated to use an agent that was recommended to you.
Please make sure you give us enough information so we can recommend the best match for you. Specifically the city or region that you information about.
If for some reason you do not like the agent we recommend please let us know and we’ll handle the process of cancelling the first agent and recommend a different agent.
Agent Contact
Once the recommendation has been sent the agent will reach out to you to discuss your needs. This should happen within 24 hours of you submitting your request minus holidays and some weekends.
Our goal is to process your request within 4 hours of receipt to ensure you’re not waiting to learn more about your options in the area/areas you have selected. And yes you can request information on more than one region and an agent in those areas will be assigned.
When you hear from the agent please take the time to communicate your needs, the more details you give them the better!
Decide on the Agent
After you’ve had a chance to interview the agent you will decide if this is the agent you want to help you or will you request a different agent. 96+% of the time our clients have liked the first agent we recommend but it’s always your decision.
If you decide you want a different agent or information about other regions please let us know and we’ll be happy to handle the cancellation and reassignment for you.
Agent Follow-up and Changes To Your Needs
If at any time you decide you no longer want information regarding the community/region you requested simple let the agent know and they will stop communicating or if it’s simply a change to community, etc they will be happy to adjust to your needs.
For a lot of buyers the process to buy an active adult home in Arizona takes months and sometimes years. This is perfectly acceptable to the agents we recommend and in fact they will tell the majority of their clients are 6-18 months out from actually buying. Just know they are here to help, they will most likely send you information regarding the areas you requested and check in from time to time to ensure you are taken care of.
Ready to Start Looking
First thing first, you will need to let you agent know if you are buying your home with cash or will you need a loan. If you are here to buy a home the agent will need a copy of your pre-approval on the Arizona form or if paying cash a bank statement showing at least the amount of the sale price.
Do they really need this? Yes our Arizona contract states that any offer submitted must have one of those included so it’s much easier if you secure these ahead of time so there’s no delay in submitting your offer and risk losing the home over it.
House Shopping…Yea
Now comes the fun part, shopping for that next home. You will have already communicated with the agent about the communities, size/style and price range prior to coming to Arizona. Your agent will ensure they have set aside enough time to show you all the homes that fit your needs and set the day/time that you will meet. Is it time to buy an active adult home in Arizona
In some cases you may be coming out just to “Window Shop” first and not ready to buy a home. Don’t worry this happens often to active adult specialist which sets them apart from the typical agent who wouldn’t want to spend the time with you. From years of doing this, agents typically set up a few options in the communities you like rather than trying to show you all the homes for sale.
In this case your goal should be to see enough to clearly understand which community meets your needs rather than seeing everything.
Offer and Escrow Period
In Arizona, we have specific contract documents that must be signed & submitted to the listing agent and the active adult communities have several addendums which is why we recommend only working with agents that know about these. Your agent will fill out the documents and go over them with you, in-person or they can do it over a zoom meeting if you have already left the area when you decide to buy the home. Yes you can have pretty much all of your documents handled digitally.
Once submitted you usually give the sellers up to 24 hours to decide but your agent will know the best time frame based on the specific home and agent. If they counter your offer you usually have up to 24 hours to decide to accept or counter again. Of course the agent will be there to give you advice along the way.
Once your contract is accepted you will have benchmarks to meet along the way, the first one is an earnest money deposit so make sure you have your checkbook with you or able to wire the money to the Title Company.
Then comes inspections, bylaws review, title commitment and others which your agent will walk you through the dates and ensure you get through this complex process with the least amount on inconvenience.
Final walk through and closing- you may or may not be here for these and in fact well over 50% of the purchases are completed remotely so rest assured your agent and title company will know how to handle it.
Time To Move In
Congrats! The home is now yours. In most cases our clients are not in town at the time of closing and your agent can assist with this which is another reason they love the agents that we recommend.
Our referral agents are well trained in client support and how to help our clients that are out of state so you can relax. They will be happy to do the final walk-through with someone you know or on their own as well delivering the keys. We know this can be a very anxious time so our referral agents do everything they can to make this process as easy as possible when you buy an active adult home in Arizona.
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