..we are ready to go to work for you. As an Accredited Buyer Representative, ABR, it's our job to find you a home that best suits your needs and desires.

Why use a Real Estate Buyer Representative?

As a consumer, how often do you buy real estate property? Once, twice, three times in your lifetime? Purchasing real estate is a complex and major transaction with many details to be handled. In the majority of cases the seller will be represented by an agent. Wouldn't you want to have complete and fair representation in the real estate transaction? The real estate buyer agent is responsible to protect their clients' best interests. Research by the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® has shown that when a buyer agent is used, the prospective buyer found their home one week faster and examined three more properties than those consumers who did not use a buyers agent.

When you choose to work with a Realtor, he or she may not be your agent!! An agent owes certain duties to a client, but has a different obligation to a customer. Your relationship with your Realtor must be established and disclosed prior to beginning to work together.

A. Client:  When you sign on with an agent as a client, that agent becomes a buyer broker. You have in effect hired that agent and his or her company to represent you in all of your efforts to secure a home. This relationship allows your agent to advise you on comparables, pricing, known problems with a particular property and help you put together a sound and meaningful offer. This relationship is ideal for you and your agent because you have agreed to work exclusively with that agent, and that agent is now responsible for making sure that you have every possible advantage in the selection, purchase and financing of your investment.

B. Customer:  You may simply choose to be treated as a customer. As a customer, the agent who works with you can only provide simple ministerial duties. This includes locating and showing your property. The reason for this is that without being under buyer agency, the agent is legally obligiated to represent the interests of the seller.

There's a difference between simply putting your home up for sale and getting it sold. It's our "Quick Start Marketing Plan". This proven strategy will help get you the results you are looking for, quickly, and for the best price possible. this plan is designed to give your home instant market presence and follow through until the sale is closed for a worry free sale.

• Virtual Tour of your home, allowing buyers to view your home 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, best of all, you don't have to tidy up for each showing!!!
• Mass E-Mail to Charleston's finest agents, with a flyer attached, and a link to your virtual tour.
• World Wide Web Your home is placed on multiple web sites, many offering a link to your virtual tour.
• Direct Mail A chance for your neighbors to choose their neighbor.
• Multiple Listing Service, giving fellow realtors additional information on your home.
• Color flyer left in your home for prospective buyers to take home with them, to serve as a reminder to them.
• Advertising in Charleston's major real estate publications! The Real Estate Book, Homes and Land, Home Traditions magazines, and the Post and Courier.
• National Referral and Relocation program assists thousands of transferees across the United States.
• Spring, Summer and Fall Open House Celebrations which generate hundreds of buyers.
• And thats just the beginning.