How to Find Your Future Arizona Home

Now you’re working closely with an Arizona Realtor so buying an Arizona home is starting to look very real, indeed.

Selecting Your Home Criteria

It is important that your Realtor completely understand what your goals are in purchasing your home in Arizona;

Why you want to buy an Arizona home (vacation home, investment property, new primary residence, etc.) and how it will be used
Type of home (single family residence, condo/townhouse, loft)
Price range
Location
Minimum bedrooms
Minimum bathrooms
Home size
Type and amount of parking
Whether the home includes a pool or spa
Anything else important to you

The better your Realtor understands your goals, the smoother the purchase will go for you.

By the way, home size in Arizona is measured in square feet. Here is a web page to convert square feet to square meters and back.

Listings That Meet Your Criteria

Your Realtor will then email you MLS listings of homes for sale that meet your criteria. Your Realtor may also ask you if you would like to receive new listings that meet your criteria whenever they hit the MLS.

Fine Tuning Your Criteria

You may find after looking at the homes emailed to you, that you would like to change your criteria; a different location, a different price, a different size, or whatever you like. This is easy for your Realtor to change for you.

In no time you will narrow down your home search to the best locations and best homes that meet your goals.

Your Trip to Arizona

Now, it’s time for the real fun to begin. You will want to take a trip to sunny Arizona to buy your new home.

If you have communicated well with your Arizona Realtor and your Realtor has worked hard, you will to able to find your Arizona home in just one or two days of home shopping. That will leave plenty of time for you and your spouse to relax by the hotel pool, play golf, go shopping or whatever.

An experienced and knowledgeable Realtor will be able to winnow down the many tens of thousands of homes for sale in metro Phoenix to the small number of homes that best fit your individual needs.

Do Your Home Shopping First

Do your home shopping at the beginning of your stay in Arizona.

Although all of the negotiations with the Seller can be done when you are back home in Canada, the negotiations are more likely to be successful if you are still in Arizona and can be reached quickly.

Attending the Home Inspection

In addition, if you reach an agreement with a home Seller early in your trip, you may be able to attend the home inspection while you are still in Arizona. It’s nice to be able to meet the home inspector you hired and ask him questions about the home after he’s finished the inspection.

Next: How to make an offer

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