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Hello. Hello friends. It's Tia Moore your host of NextView podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in. Before we get into this very short nine minute episode of the podcast, I wanted to give you a quick heads up about what I'll be discussing today. I know that there are homes that are on the market that you can access without a realtor. And so I want to talk to you about safety protocols and also in that same breath, talking about the benefits and the reasons why you want to have your hired representative with you, even though you can't access the home by yourself. I'll talk about what location should mean for you. Everybody says when you buy a home location, location, location is the most important, but most people, most times you don't hear people explain what does that mean? So I'll go over that and explain what that means to you and for your lifestyle.

I'm also going to be talking about what to think about if you decide to purchase a house that's near a school. Floor plan functionality when you're viewing homes and things like that. I want to make sure that once you go out and you're looking at houses, the information in is in this podcast can help you make a decision that's going to prevent you from being beat out in the market with somebody else. Because here in Phoenix and maybe different in some other markets, but here in the Phoenix Metro area, inventory is extremely low. And when we have such a tight market with low inventory and high buyer demand, that means you have to be able to make a decision quickly. So if you're equipped with enough information to help you make a good and smart decision, then I feel like you'll, you'll get the home that you need and you'll be really competitive in today's market.

So give it a listen. Like I said, it's a short nine minutes and after you listen, be sure to leave me a review and let me know what you think. I'll see you guys next week. Okay guys, so viewing homes, the last episode we talked about what you should expect when you do a consultation with a realtor. Well, this episode we're talking about what to expect when you're viewing homes. So you probably have seen the open door signs and the offer pad signs and then you can text and they'll give you a code to go right into the house. Okay. Completely okay to do that. That's no problem in doing that. However, I recommend that you do not make that move without your real estate agent. A couple of reasons why. One, for safety purposes, you don't want to go into a vacant property by yourself.

There has been more than one occasion where there have been, you know, people in those homes that should not be in those homes and it's put people in unsafe situations. So I w I don't want any of you guys to have a situation where you're, you're putting to a situation and you get hurt. So that's one reason you shouldn't do that. The other reason for that is because if you are currently working with a real estate agent and you want to make sure that they, that you do get representation, and sometimes if you go into a property without them, then that can affect your ability to use them as a realtor. So have a conversation with your preferred realtor about that so they can go detail with you about it, but just don't go alone. But safety and plus because you want and you want to keep and you want to have representation.

When you go into a house, what should you be looking at? Well, I'm going to tell you it is, I don't want you to forget, be in the heat of the moment. You need to be looking at where is this house located at? And some of these things you can look at even before you get there, you can just pull it up on Google maps. But do you want to back up to a main street? Let's say for example, it's a busy, busy road and there's lots of traffic on it. Do you want your house to backup to that road? Is the house on a corner? Is it a corner