San Diego real estate agent Clayton Connolly is taking you back to school, providing you with tips, tricks, and insight into how to navigate the real estate market. Today’s topic in class:

Buying a Home Step Three: Shopping for a Home

Welcome to Clayton Connolly's Homeschool 101 where we talk about the basics of buying or selling your home in 60 seconds or less.

Step three, shopping for a home.

Now, this is the fun part. This is the part where you get to sit up online in your pajamas at 11 o'clock at night, and look for all the homes that are coming up. And that's awesome.

Now here's how we're going to work together, myself as your agent. You're going to find homes that you like, and you're going to send them to me. And I'm going to be able to get some of the backend information. At that point in time, I work to schedule you an appointment, but before that I pick up the phone, call the other agent to find out the seller's motivation. Why are they selling? Are they looking to rent back or do they want a short close? I try to get as much information as I can to help our processes streamline, should we want to write an offer.

Additionally, because you're working with yours truly, I have access to homes that are not even on the market yet. So you're looking on one side, I'm looking on the other, and I'm able to present homes that maybe the rest of the world hasn't quite seen. So that's a tremendous advantage moving forward, and shopping is the fun part.

The next step, we make a call, we make an appointment. We go see the homes in the COVID friendly, safe way. We write an offer and bam, we're in.

Reach out directly to Clayton at 619-204-9593