Palm Beach Real Estate and Loans

I don't mean to go off on a rant (with apologies to Dennis Miller) -

BUT......

And I do realize that you have to take the good with the BAD not-so-good -

BUT......

Let's go over 2 recent Customer contacts that I have had.

Both want to buy real estate in Palm Beach Gardens, one doesn't need a mortgage the other one isn't sure.

Easy so far -

Customer 1: I'm looking to buy a home -

Me: Fantastic - let's go over your specific wants / needs and we'll take it from there-

Customer 1: It's going to be for me, my wife and 2 children.  We want a single family home, 4 bedrooms would be perfect.  We'd need a 2 car garage, a pool would be nice, but not necessary.  The quality of the local schools is very important, so I'll need as much information on them as possible.  Close to shopping and the beaches would be great and I really don't want to pay more then $600,000.  I'm currently selling my home, but that won't interfere with the new purchase.  Oh yeah - I'll be able to pay cash so financing won't be a concern.  Do you need anything else?

With a tear in my eye I said "No, that pretty much covers the basics.".  I quickly found several homes and we set a time to meet up in the next 2 weeks.

Now, from behind the next curtain -

Customer 2: Hi, I'm looking to buy a new home for my family-

Me: Fantastic - let's go over your specific wants / needs and we'll take it from there-  (sound familiar to anybody?)

Customer 2: (a bit upset) I just said that I was looking to buy a new home.

Me: I understand, OK, let's start with your price range-

C 2: If you HAVE to know - between $500k and $1 million. (yeah, that would be good info to have!)

Me: Great, you'll have plenty to choose from - are you interested in any particular area?  Close to the beaches, golf, tennis - maybe a little further out west so that you could have more land?

C 2: Why do you need to know that?

Me: Well, with the number of homes / condos currently available to buy in Palm Beach Gardens, Jupiter, Juno, etc. - I'm sure that I can find just what you want.  I'm just trying to narrow things down a bit.

C 2: Look - I was just looking for a little help, if you don't want my business, I'm sure that I can find someone who does!

I do feel sorry for the person that winds up with that prize!

Those 2 examples show the extremes - it was very odd to have them both in the same day.

If you are interested in buying real estate in Palm Beach Gardens or any of the surrounding areas like Jupiter, Juno Beach, Singer Island, etc., you are lucky in the respect that you have a HUGE inventory to choose from and some very low prices.

It's nice to have such a large choice, but YOU have to know what YOU want and you have to let your Agent know or they won't be able to do a thing.

Hey - it would be great to grab a customer by the hand, point to a home and say "BUY THAT ONE", but it dosen't work that way.

Like I said: Help ME to Help YOU!

I'm going to get more coffee.....