What You Can Expect
Buying A Home
How do I prepare to buy a home? This section offers detailed information to help you as you prepare to buy a home. You’ll find helpful tips and details on everything from talking to your potential Royal LePage REALTOR® to getting your finances organized.
The more prepared you are as you start looking for a new home, the easier and more enjoyable the process will be. Thanks to the wide variety of services offered by Royal LePage, we've got you covered every step of the way.
Looking for a quick way to figure out how much you can afford to spend on your home? Try our Mortgage Affordability Calculator.
What To Expect
How can the Dan Cooper Team help?
Good REALTORS® save you time and money. They know your community, they know what is important when buying and selling a home, and they know all the intricacies of the process, from finding a home, to negotiating a price, to closing a deal.
We will:
Good REALTORS® save you time and money. They know your community, they know what is important when buying and selling a home, and they know all the intricacies of the process, from finding a home, to negotiating a price, to closing a deal.
We will:
- Screen the available homes in your neighbourhood to make sure that the houses you look at fit your budget and your requirements
- Give you important information on local real estate values, taxes, utility costs, services, and amenities
- Guide you through the viewing process showing you features you may not have noticed and problems you may not have spotted
- Advise you about your legal and financial options
- Recommend expert help when needed, such as home appraisal, home inspection, and contracting services
- Manage your offers and counter-offers, and use his or her skills and experience as a negotiator to make sure you get the best deal possible
Purchasing
Once you’ve found the home you’re interested in, it's time to make an offer. Deciding what to offer is one of the most difficult decisions to make. Offer too little and you stand a chance of losing the house (particularly in a seller's market). On the other hand, nobody wants to pay more for something than it's worth.
The Dan Cooper Team can help you enormously by showing you what comparable houses are selling for, helping you assess the condition of the house, and judging the type of competition you may face. Once you have decided on the price you are prepared to offer, the REALTOR® will draft the offer and explain the details to you.
We will communicate the offer, sometimes known as an Offer to Purchase (a legal document specifying the offers terms and conditions) to the seller, or the seller's representative, on your behalf.
The offer can be firm or conditional.
Firm Offer to Purchase: usually preferable to the seller, because it means that you are prepared to purchase the home without any conditions. If the offer is accepted, the home is yours.
Conditional Offer to Purchase: means that you have placed one or more conditions on the purchase, such as subject to home inspection, subject to financing, or subject to the sale of the buyer's existing home. The home is not sold until all the conditions have been met.
Contact us for a FREE no obligation process report to see more of what we will do for you at dan@dancooper.com or (905) 338-3737
The Dan Cooper Team can help you enormously by showing you what comparable houses are selling for, helping you assess the condition of the house, and judging the type of competition you may face. Once you have decided on the price you are prepared to offer, the REALTOR® will draft the offer and explain the details to you.
We will communicate the offer, sometimes known as an Offer to Purchase (a legal document specifying the offers terms and conditions) to the seller, or the seller's representative, on your behalf.
The offer can be firm or conditional.
Firm Offer to Purchase: usually preferable to the seller, because it means that you are prepared to purchase the home without any conditions. If the offer is accepted, the home is yours.
Conditional Offer to Purchase: means that you have placed one or more conditions on the purchase, such as subject to home inspection, subject to financing, or subject to the sale of the buyer's existing home. The home is not sold until all the conditions have been met.
Contact us for a FREE no obligation process report to see more of what we will do for you at dan@dancooper.com or (905) 338-3737
Selling Your Home
Selling a home takes preparation, organization and professional marketing. This section will walk you through some of the things you can expect from The Dan Cooper Team. For example:
Market Analysis
Local market conditions will have an impact on the amount you can get for your home – and on how quickly you can sell it.
Market Analysis
Local market conditions will have an impact on the amount you can get for your home – and on how quickly you can sell it.
- Buyer's market – More homes on the market than buyers. Lots of competition from other sellers. Prices drop. Houses take longer to sell.
- Seller's market – Lots of buyers. Not that many houses for sale. Prices increase. Homes sell quickly (just the market you want).
- Balanced market – Sellers accept reasonable offers. Homes sell within an acceptable time period. Prices are generally stable.
Pre-Listing
Pre-listing Preparation
To prepare your property for listing, take a look at your home with the eyes of a potential buyer. What's your first impression? What needs to be cleaned, painted, repaired, or tossed out to make your house as attractive as possible? A small investment in repairs, decoration, and organization can add thousands of dollars to your property value.
A dedicated professional will sit with you and review with you all of the options available to you!
To prepare your property for listing, take a look at your home with the eyes of a potential buyer. What's your first impression? What needs to be cleaned, painted, repaired, or tossed out to make your house as attractive as possible? A small investment in repairs, decoration, and organization can add thousands of dollars to your property value.
A dedicated professional will sit with you and review with you all of the options available to you!
Marketing
Marketing your home is what we do best.
From full color print magazines to glossy 4 color spread with professional photography to High Definition Video tours... we have your more than covered.
Our commitment to technology Royal LePage invests millions in information technology to ensure effective and speedy communications, improve the flow of information, and make sure our messages reach the widest possible audience. Our value proposition includes:
From full color print magazines to glossy 4 color spread with professional photography to High Definition Video tours... we have your more than covered.
Our commitment to technology Royal LePage invests millions in information technology to ensure effective and speedy communications, improve the flow of information, and make sure our messages reach the widest possible audience. Our value proposition includes:
- Digital Open Houses (see more on this in our "Video Marketing" section of our website)
- Serious communication technology means you can always reach us.
- State-of-the-art analytical tools offer marketing information you can trust.
- Cutting edge promotional tools are professional and persuasive.
- Plus, you have access to Canada’s first, best and most popular real estate web site, which is regularly upgraded to meet changing needs.
- Access to a private network of business professionals and investors outside of the standard MLS campaigns
Contact Us
Contact us for a FREE no-hastle material on how The Dan Cooper Team can help you purchase or sell your property within 60 days!
(905) 338-3737 or email: dan@dancooper.com
(905) 338-3737 or email: dan@dancooper.com
