Today CENTURY 21 Northbay Alliance has an open house extravaganza. We have 72 of our listings open and there are prices to win. Each house has a drawing for $20,00 giftcard and there will be a Grand Prize Drawing for $ 300,00 giftcard for Best Buy.
I will be at 164 Cordoba Way, a great 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom home in Foothill Estates. I will have a drawing for a Home Depot giftcard. I look forward to see you there! Combine it with a hike in Foothill park, you will have a lovely Sunday afternoon!.
See you there!
Mirjam
Mirjam on September 23rd 2007 in Windsor, Buyers
Realtor Magazine today had an interesting article about something that is confusing for buyers and sellers. Confusing prequalification with preapproval can mean disappointment for both a home seller and a buyer.
It’s smart for buyers to become preapproved by their lender – not just prequalified.
To obtain a bona fide preapproval, you must submit a loan application with the necessary documentation and fee. After the lender verifies and analyzes the application, it will notify you -the applicant- of how much money you can afford to borrow. This usually means a few hours work for both buyer and lender. But armed with that information, the buyer can confidently go home shopping.
Prequalifications are simply an estimate of what a buyer can afford. A buyer who assumes that this estimate is accurate and chooses a home based on the information may, in fact, be denied a loan when he actually applies, a situation that wastes his time and can put a seller in an a bad position if they’ve already turned away a qualified buyer. And, of course it wastes the real estate practitioner’s time as well.
There are terrific buys out there right now. Anyone who has been thinking about purchasing a property should do so right now. Check out the following properties:2625 Spring Oaks in Santa Rosa, 164 Cordoba Way, Windsor, both are great homes in super neighborhoods.
Mirjam de Rijk
Mirjam on July 16th 2007 in Windsor, Buyers, Bennett Valley
