Welcome to the Sanford REI Buying Page! WE GUARANTEE TO GIVE YOU MORE PERTINENT INFORMATION WHEN YOU BUY SO YOU CAN GET THE BEST DEAL or WE WILL PAY YOU $50 ON THE SPOT AND TAKE UP NO MORE THAN 20 MINUTES OF YOUR TIME! WE ARE THE 1ST, AND TO DATE, THE ONLY REAL ESTATE COMPANY IN CONNECTICUT THAT HAS SUCH A GUARANTEE!
Whether you are looking to buy a small home, large home, home on the beach, commercial property or a nice parcel of land, you do not need to look any further! This area of real estate is where we outperform everybody! This is backed by our 20 Minute/$50 Guarantee Challenge and we will discuss this in more detail in a minute but let’s just say that NO OTHER REAL ESTATE COMPANY IN CONNECTICUT HAS SUCH A GUARANTEE!
Most of the real estate side of our business is dealing with buyers. This is our “bread and butter” and we are proud of it. We are here to get our clients the best deal possible. Period. It is not our fault that many real estate agents who represent sellers tell their clients their home is worth more than what it actually is worth! We also will never apologize for doing more due diligence than any other real estate agent or broker in Connecticut! When it comes to buying real estate, our number one priority is to save our clients more money than anyone else or be able to grab a property if it’s hot before anyone else! We want to save you as many of these $100 bills when buying your new home!
When buying a property, most agents in Connecticut only give you 1 thing – “Comps” which is short for “Comparables”. This a list of similar styled properties that sold within the past 90 days on the “MLS” or Multiple Listing Service (This is the database that all real estate agents use to buy and sell properties on the market). That’s it! That is all these other agents give you! Yes, yes, yes, they may doctor up this information with useless pie charts and graphs but that is really all you are getting! What is worse is that they cannot even do this correctly as they either leave certain properties out of your Comp list (either on purpose or not), they use different style houses (which is the wrong way of doing it), use “Stale” Comps (meaning houses that sold months and months ago – which is also the wrong way of pulling Comps) or they only pull “Comps” that are close in price to the property you want to buy so they don’t have to worry about putting in a low offer. We destroy our competition on all of this! However, all of this may seem confusing but I would love to meet with you to explain it better in person. When you are truly informed of how other agents put on a good show but are not being totally truthful, you will begin to realize how important it is to work with us! We pull the correct “Comps”, we show you everything we can, we explain everything and we will answer your questions almost any hour of the day or night!
Ok so you think you found a property that is just right for you, you have driven by it to see if the neighborhood and exterior looks good too. We got together and took a look at the inside too. It is time to put an offer in on this property. Most agents will advise a price based on “Comps” but they fail to tell you anything about how motivated the seller might be! Why do they do this? They lack the knowledge and experience we have to investigate the sellers to find out how motivated they are! We include this with our agreement with you when you choose Sanford REI to represent you as a Buyer. The best thing is – there is absolutely NO COST to you! That’s right! Sellers pay a full commission rate and usually the listing broker and the buyer broker split it so, as a real estate buyer in Connecticut, my services to you are FREE! So if I am FREE, then why would you go with another agent who will only give you Comps, when you can go with Sanford REI and get the correct Comps and so much more!???
Ok – Let’s now discuss your initial offer! Your initial offer should be based on 3 things and the last thing is VITAL to getting the best possible deal! Most agents either don’t tell you, don’t fully understand or miss “C” completely!
Your opening bid should be based on:
(a) what you are pre-qualified for (what your Lender says you can afford through their Pre-Qualification to you) and what monthly rate you are comfortable with,
(b) what the property is worth (based on real, accurate and recent “Comps” and not what you think it’s worth) and
(c) the motivation of the seller.
Although many real estate agents know about (A), few do (B) correctly and C is missed by almost every real estate agent or broker out there! It is in this last, most important aspect of buying that we pride ourselves on. You can NOT get the best deal UNLESS you know how motivated the seller is! We will investigate the seller’s situation – looking at whether they are going through foreclosure, going through divorce, in probate or in other financial difficulties. We will review any cases we find, find out what they paid for the property, estimate what they still owe, give you correct “comps” and find out what is going on with the seller so we can get you the best deal possible! So why go with another agent who JUST GIVES YOU COMPS when we will give you Comps and so much more???
To prove you get more than any other agent out there when buying your next property, we invite you to take our 20 Minute/$50 Guarantee Challenge! We beat the competition or we pay you $50!!!
This is how Sanford REI’s 20 Minute/$50 Guarantee Challenge works:
1. Call John at (203) 721-4710 and ask him to provide you information on a property you want to buy.
2. Then call 2 other real estate agents and tell them you want to buy this same property and have them each send you their information on it so you can make your decision to buy it. Tell them to include the price they would offer on that property!
3. Review their information but do not sign anything!
4. Then call John back and tell him “I Want To Take The Challenge!” John will set up a 20 minute appointment at your home. You bring out all of the information that the 2 other agents gave to you including the price they would offer on this particular property. If John can’t give you more pertinent information to buy that property than the other 2 agents, John will give you $50 Cash On The Spot! REMEMBER – MORE INFORMATION MEANS MORE POWER, MORE POWER MEANS BETTER LEVERAGE AND BETTER LEVERAGE MEANS YOU HAVE A BETTER CHANCE TO GET THE BEST DEAL!
5. The only restrictions are that you cannot be a real estate agent/broker, related to a real estate agent/broker, work for a real estate agency and/or currently represented by a Real Estate Agent/Broker. One Challenge per person, per household. That’s it! Why pay more? Why the heck would you go with anyone else?
We do many things for Buyers that most agents do not do. In part, we find out if there is a motivated seller and if so, how motivated they are correlates to you saving even more money on your purchase! The only exception to saving lots of money on the purchase of a property is when the property is going through a “Short Sale” (which we will discuss in more detail under the “Foreclosures” tab). Briefly, in Short Sales, the bank is already losing 10s of $1,000s of dollars, sometimes 100s of $1,000s of dollars so to get them to reduce their price further is very difficult. Many times, with Short Sales, you will need to not only bid near full price but you will need an experienced real estate agent to advise you the best way get you “in” and “Lock That House Up” before someone else grabs it!
You will want this when there are multiple offers or when you need to beat out your competitors. In both examples, you need Sanford REI to have the best chance to lock up that home you wanted!
Now let’s talk about down payments. Many people think they need 10 or even 20% to put down on a property. Think again! You don’t need 20%!!! You normally don’t even need 10%!!! That’s right!
Want to see how other buyers we worked with think about us? Please click the Zillow Icon at the top of the page to read our reviews! Also, during your buying process, we also can recommend inspection companies and mortgage brokers to get you pre-qualified! Why go anywhere else!!??
If you got to this point and you are saying to yourself “Geeze, I would love to own my very own home 1 day and I just don’t think I have enough money or high enough credit score or too many debts…” STOP! Don’t assume! Let me help you find out FOR SURE! I can refer you to one of the best mortgage brokers in Connecticut and many times, a person like you CAN get pre-qualified! But let’s say you cannot get pre-qualified at this time. DON’T GIVE UP! John still has options for you! You can do a Lease Option or an Owner Finance on one of John’s properties or a property that may be on the market! You can get this in place while you repair your credit issues so you can get pre-qualified! Check out “Wholesaling and Lease Options” under the “Investing” tab at the top of the page for more information on Lease Options! Then call John!
Please complete the Contact Form and include a date and time I can meet you at your home or at a property that you are interested in for about an hour to discuss my background in more detail, set you up on the MLS so you can get daily emails of properties you want to see, discuss how best to buy your next property and sign a Buyer’s Representation Agreement to get you going on finding your perfect home, commercial property or land with Connecticut’s #1 Broker!
Thanks again!
John Sanford, Managing Member and Real Estate Broker at Sanford REI.