Buying a Home

Buying a Home in Kansas City

The Red Door Group with ReeceNichols is a highly knowledgeable, motivated, and professional real estate team dedicated to helping you find a place to call home. Whether it’s your first home or your fifth, we ensure you have a rewarding, memorable and enjoyable experience! Let us take care of every step, starting with finding the right home and ending with recommending a company to help you move.

Let’s Find Your New Home

Kansas City Buyers Agents

The listing agent for a home works for the seller, meaning they have a duty to represent the seller’s best interests. As a home buyer, you should have your own buyers agent to represent you in negotiations. Our Kansas City real estate agents are skilled negotiators and have rich insights into local market trends so we can get you the best possible price. You can count on us to always have your best interests at heart.

There are other benefits of having one of our Kansas City buyers agents by your side. You’ll save countless hours you might have spent looking at listings that don’t fit what you want. Our deep knowledge of the Kansas City area means we can help you find up-and-coming neighborhoods and hidden gems. Our relationships with top-tier vendors and contractors means you don’t have to scour reviews to find companies you can trust. Best of all, we’ll take care of all the details. You can rest easy knowing everything is cared for.

Home Buying Process

The home buying process is complex, but it doesn’t have to be stressful or difficult. We’ll guide you every step of the way, making sure every “i” is dotted and every “t” crossed. We love helping new buyers, too!

 

1. Consultation With Your Buyers Agent

We’ll discuss your needs, wants and timeline for buying a home.

2. Determine Your Home Buying Budget

Narrow down the neighborhoods you like. This will give you an idea of the price range you’re looking at. Next, you need to figure out all of your monthly expenses, and don’t shave the numbers. More often than not, your monthly expenses will go up once you move, so be fair and honest when figuring out your monthly budget. You won’t enjoy your new home to the fullest if the payments are a constant struggle. Finally, you need to know your credit score and down payment. This is critical because it can and will determine your monthly mortgage payments. Once you have done all of this you will know what you can afford.

At your consultation, we can put you in touch with a ReeceNichols HomeServices Lending loan officer for a free pre-approval. Knowing you’re pre-approved not only helps you narrow your search, but also shows sellers that you’re motivated. In a tight real estate market, this can make a big difference.

If you have other lenders you’d like to work with or want recommendations, we can help you with that, too.

3. Set up a Home Match Account

Home Match is an exclusive service offered through ReeceNichols that makes it easy to research available homes in your desired community. We can help you set up your custom Home Match account at your consultation, or you can do it on your own if you like.

4. The Fun Part—Let’s Look at Houses!

We’ll set up showings of potential homes that fit your criteria. We’re also happy to accompany you to visit homes and open houses you find yourself. ReeceNichols hosts a special Open House Celebration weekend each month, giving you the chance to view hundreds of open houses over the course of one weekend.

5. “Test Drive” the Neighborhood

Moving to a new neighborhood means a lifestyle change. It’s important to not just tour a home, but to tour the area. Visit local restaurants and stores. Walk around to get a “feel” for the neighborhood. Do a trial commute to work and schools, if applicable. You’ll be making that drive every day for many years, so make sure it’s comfortable for you. All these things can help you narrow down homes of interest.

6. Make an Offer

Once you’ve found “the one,” we’ll prepare the offer to purchase and review all the details. We can pull comps to make sure your offer is favorable yet competitive. Let us remove the stress over how much to offer!

7. Negotiation

After the contract is submitted, we’ll put our expertise and experience to work negotiating the purchase of the home with your best interests in mind. You’ll be kept in the loop every step of the way.

8. Finalize the Paperwork

Once the seller agrees to all of the terms, the paperwork, inspections and mortgage will be finalized. It’s time to start packing!

9. Closing Day

Time to celebrate! We’ll be by your side on closing day as you sign the paperwork to purchase your new home. There’s nothing like the feeling of getting the keys to your very own front door!

10. Beyond the Sale

While your home purchase is complete, we’re still there for you for home related questions. We want to be your real estate agent for life, and will keep in touch to make sure all is well. If you need us for another home purchase or sale, or you know someone who does, we’re just a call or email away.

Call 913.323.7227 today

Open the door to a rewarding real estate experience.

11100 Antioch Road
Overland Park, KS 66210