After you sign
The next twelve weeks.
Most of the worry about paying a buyer's agent is about the gap between paying and seeing anything. So here is the gap, written down, with what we do, what you do, and what you get at each step.
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Day 0
You sign, and the $5,500 is paid
What we do
The engagement is e-signed on the call. Within the hour you get a text from me and an email with this page.
What you do
One thing: pick a time for Tom.
Dan, who rings you the hour you sign -
Inside 3 days
Tom's session is booked
What we do
Tom is a CPA who ran more than 1,500 of these a year at one of the biggest agencies in the country. Nothing is modelled before you sign, and nothing is sold in the session.
What you do
Have your income, debts, deposit and hold period ready.
Tom, Head of Strategy -
Week 1
The portfolio session, and a written report
What we do
Your position, your borrowing, what the purchase has to do. You leave with the scenarios and the numbers on each.
What you do
Read it. Argue with it. It is your plan, not a template.
A page of a Buyers First strategy report -
Weeks 1 to 2
Fifteen thousand suburbs to five, and the brief is signed
What we do
Industry and jobs first, then people, vacancy, rents, supply, prices last. You get the five and the rejects, with the reasons. Then Schedule A, the brief, is agreed and signed.
What you do
Sign the brief. From here, respond to anything we present within 48 hours.
Cover of a Buyers First area report -
Weeks 2 to 6
The search, priced off written comps
What we do
Listed and pre-market stock in the five, inspected, priced from a comparable sales file before any number is tabled. Anything worth acting on comes as a full presentation: the strategy it fits, every buy and hold dollar, the offer strategy.
What you do
Say yes or no inside 48 hours. Both are fine.
Aerial of the Sydenham site with the block dimensions marked -
Under contract
Building and pest, finance, every date in your calendar
What we do
The building and pest is read as a negotiating document. Finance and conveyancing are coordinated with your broker and conveyancer. When the contract goes unconditional, the $14,500 is billed. Never before.
What you do
Keep your broker moving. We chase everyone else.
The Skye build at frame stage -
Settlement
Pre-settlement inspection, handover, a settled file
What we do
Our average from signing to a secured property is four weeks. Some take longer, because the finish line is the right buy.
What you do
Meet your property manager. Then go and have a drink.
Aerial of the Corio purchase after its renovation -
Every year after
A written check-in that never sells you anything
What we do
The property and its market, once a year, in writing. Term five.
What you do
Nothing. Read it when it lands.
A market cycle reading from the Buyers First council pages
Questions at any step: 0423 000 195 or [email protected]. The money, once more: $5,500 when you sign, $14,500 when your purchase goes unconditional and never otherwise.