What Is the Best Way to Search for a Home in Charleston?

There are many great Charleston area homes for sale. Click here to perform a full home search, or if you're thinking of selling your home, click here for a FREE Home Price Evaluation so you know what buyers will pay for your home in today's market. You may also call me at (843) 972-3833 for a FREE home buying or selling consultation to answer any of your real estate questions.

A lot of people ask me where they can find the best homes in Charleston, and I'm happy to tell you that there are a lot of good options for you.

The Internet is a great place to start looking for homes. There are dozens of real estate websites, such as Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com, etc. These websites are great starting points for your home search, but they don't always have the most reliable data put on them. Some of the listings are outdated, so a home that you're eyeing may actually have sold months ago. If a home is in good condition and priced correctly on Zillow, it's probably already been sold.

I have a great Internet tool to suggest to you, and it's called the Market Snapshot. We deliver you information about homes that you're interested in. So if you want a four bedroom, three bath, with a three car garage and a pool, we can alert you via email when a listing like that comes onto the market.

However, the downfall of the Internet is that it's not real. Sometimes what you see is not what you get, and that's why sometimes simply going out and looking at properties is the best thing that you can do. You can drive around and look at properties, but a better strategy is to hire a local real estate agent to show you homes.

I have access to some of the best homes in Charleston, and some of them aren't even on the market yet! If you search on my website (www.davefriedmantv.com) it's updated every fifteen minutes. You just need to go in and set your parameters (# of bedrooms, # of baths, square footage) and you will receive alerts when a similar home becomes available.

Because inventory is so low, we also have a 'coming soon' list of homes, and this allows you to escape the competition and find a good home very quickly.

If you want to find some of the best homes in Charleston then please don't hesitate to contact us. We have access to premier listings in Charleston, and you'll need our help when the market is this hot!

Handling Multiple Offer Situations in Charleston

There are many great Charleston area homes for sale. Click here to perform a full home search, or if you're thinking of selling your home,click here for a FREE Home Price Evaluation so you know what buyers will pay for your home in today's market. You may also call me at (843) 972-3833 for a FREE home buying or selling consultation to answer any of your real estate questions. 

Charleston is one of the hottest real estate markets in the nation, and we're seeing a lot of multiple offer situations here because of that. 

If you're a buyer in a multiple offer situation, you really need to take a step back and evaluate if the home is right for you and whether it's worth fighting for. If you decide to go through and try to purchase the home, there are a few things that we'll do with you.

1. Ask questions: We need to know how much you're willing to spend on a home, and what else we can negotiate. Price is not always the top factor for a seller; sometimes they just need to sell the home quickly and without contingencies. 
2. Find the seller's motivation: We try to pinpoint the seller's motivation, because this allows us to make the strongest and most appealing offer on your behalf. We've won homes without offering the highest price because we've understood the motivations of the seller.
3. Escalation Clause: We can write into a contract that you're willing to offer (for example) $300,000 on a home and you'll offer $1,000 more than every offer until the price surpasses $320,000 (or whichever number you choose). This way, we can offer the most amount of money, yet you can control how much you're paying for a home. 

Hopefully this information can be useful to you if you find yourself in a multiple offer situation in Charleston. 

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns about this information. I'm always here to help you!

Beware of the Latest Social Media Trends!

There are many great Charleston area homes for sale. Click here to perform a full home search, or if you're thinking of selling your home, click here for a FREE Home Price Evaluation so you know what buyers will pay for your home in today's market. You may also call me at (843) 795-7950 for a FREE home buying or selling consultation to answer any of your real estate questions.

Beware of the Latest Social Media Trends!

We need to talk – when I’m not selling real estate or saving the world, I’ll take some time to scroll through my Facebook news feed or thumb through a few tweets. Through my research, I’ve noticed a trend that needs to be addressed: the “Humblebrag.”

Staying on top of the trends is something that obviously comes natural to me. However for those who are not familiar with the “Humblebrag,” our friends at Urban Dictionary were kind enough to provide us with a definition:

“Subtly letting others now about how fantastic your life is while undercutting it with a bit of self-effacing humor or "woe is me" gloss.

Uggggh just ate about fifteen piece of chocolate gotta learn to control myself when flying first class or they'll cancel my modelling contract LOL :p #humblebrag”

If you think that was bad, my next finding takes this trend to another level:

“Going thru some of my other shots from my photo shoot Ladies what do you think of this one? #blessed…”

Look man, good looking people like ourselves don’t need to flaunt it around on social media while asking for the public’s opinion! If you do something awesome, like being voted The Best Realtor in Charleston for 2014 by the Charleston City Paper, there is no need to wear it around your chest like a banner and pretend that it is no big deal.

After all, everyone should know that you’re the best… #blessed.