I Need A Bigger Seattle House For My Growing Family
How to coordinate your move while buying and selling
You need more space!
We’ve been there and we understand how you’re feeling. Adding new people, pets, or plants to a household can make it feel cramped. You need space in your home to work, for hobbies, and for entertaining guests. It’s time for a bigger house. So how do you get started to handle this transition of buying and selling at the same time?
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Video: how to manage a move for a growing family in Seattle
Whether you’re adding people, pets or plants, we feel you.
The one-minute video above provides an overview of how we partner with people like you to move up into a larger home for your growing family while you sell your Seattle area home. Managing this transition of buying and selling while making a move requires careful planning, attention to detail, and a positive attitude. Hiring us gives you all three.
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Can’t recommend the JanusGroup enough.
UPDATE 2024: The JanusGroup Dream Team did it again! After two years in our wonderful townhome that Aaron helped us find, we needed a little more space… and a garage 🙂. With the same humor, authenticity, and transparency, Aaron helped us find the perfect home that we plan to stay in for many years to come. Diane helped us stage our townhome for selling, which made it such an easy and seamless experience as well. It’s impossible to articulate in one small post the knowledge and experience Aaron brought that guided us in this journey, but needless to say, we *still* can’t recommend the JanusGroup enough!
ORIGINAL POST 2021: My husband and I moved back to Seattle after living out of state for a few years and could not have had a better experience! While other prospective agents questioned how well we knew the area (trust me, we know the area), Aaron was excited to welcome us back and to find us a spot in one of our favorite neighborhoods. Aaron is a great listener, and we felt like he really “got us”… he gave honest opinions and *hilarious* commentary :). Dare I say, he made home buying fun?! Can’t recommend the JanusGroup enough.
What to expect
How it works: the process for buying a bigger Seattle house for your growing family
Preparing
You talk; we listen. We begin the process by listening to what your biggest concerns are, and what your ultimate goals are. Once you’re comfortable with the process, then we’ll talk about what is possible for you, and we will craft a plan that will help you attain your goals. Because we’ll be both purchasing and selling a home, we’ll need to sketch out a timeline of how all of the pieces will fit together. No matter how we do it, our team will there the whole time, by your side.
Figuring out the numbers
There are two important numbers that we’ll need to figure out early on. First, what you’ll net from the sale of your home. And, if you have not already done so, this is the time to talk with a mortgage professional about your financial situation and to figure out what type and how much of a mortgage you’d like to have.
Proper Pricing, Preparation and Marketing Plan
Two of the most important aspects of getting you results are the proper preparation and pricing of your home. After doing a thorough walkthrough of your home, we will help you decide what types of things need to be done in order to maximize your net proceeds, and minimize the time on market. And, don’t worry… we’ve got people that can help do the work! Next, we’ll do the proper due diligence, and share with you what is happening in the market, how your home stacks up, and what you can expect to net from the sale. Finally, we will customize a marketing plan unique to your home. Once we launch, one thing that our clients really appreciate is the weekly update, which will illustrate what our team has done to market your home, how effective those efforts have been, and feedback from agents that have shown the home.
Searching for and finding The One
We’ll set up a custom home search for you on our website, or directly from our MLS. This will ping you with new listings that hit the market which may be of interest. Then, whether we’re going out on a private tour of homes, or you’re walking through open houses on your own, we’ll start to narrow down what type of home, and what neighborhoods are really going to work for you. Once you’ve found “The One,” our team will help you gather data about the home, so that you can make a sound decision. If you decide you’d like to go for it, then we’ll help you craft a strong offer. Once that offer is negotiated and we have a fully signed around contract, we’ll help move you through the next stage, escrow.
Escrow
Escrow is the stage at which we work through all the contingencies of the contract. On the purchasing front, this is where we get the home inspected, we apply for financing, we review documents and information about the home. On the sale side, this is where, among the plethora of items we’ll track are; negotiating potential inspection items, making any necessary repairs, making sure that the buyer’s financing stays on track, and making sure that there are no issues with title. Just as during the marketing stage, we’ll be by your side throughout this process, making sure you are comfortable and informed all along the way.
Closing
The end of the process is sometimes the most stressful. Whether last minute questions for the lender, or we’re waiting for the seller to finish working on an inspection item, or one of a hundred other possibilities, just know that we are there, at your side, advocating for you. We’ll get there. Once you sign the papers, it’s almost a done deal.
Keys
Congratulations! You’ve officially closed. We will coordinate the transfer of keys for the home you just sold, and we will meet and I will hand you a set of keys for your new home. Then, we will toast to your new beginnings!
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We used Aaron and his team to find our first home and sell it two years later. We could not be more pleased with the job that they did. We did not expect to be moving so quickly, but Aaron was ready to go on short notice to help get our home prepared for the market. The staging was BEAUTIFUL and the accompanying social media blitz was shock and awe– many of our friends reached out to say that the posting had come across their social media feeds. Aaron was in constant contact with us until our home was sold. We would recommend him highly!
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A buying a bigger Seattle house for a growing family success story
From cramped to spread out
The Clients
Mark and Natalie. They purchased their first home, a townhome, just before they had their first baby. That worked well for years, but after baby number two arrived, that townhome started to shrink. Plus, the idea of vertical living with a couple of little ones was less than ideal. So, they called Aaron and came up with a plan.
The Big Concerns
Being in the midst of major growth years in their respective professional careers, while also raising two children meant that time was a precious commodity for Mark and Natalie. The idea of a complicated process of selling one home and then purchasing another was daunting. It was important to them that they had a
clear path from one home to the next, and that they felt like they had a partner to guide them through the process.
The Process
Aaron began by outlining several different scenarios which could play out, including…
1) find the next home, close, and then list their current home for sale,
2) list the home and search for a new home and try to coordinate both closings,
3) find a new home, purchase it with a home sale contingency, and then list the current home, and
4) hang onto the home as a rental, and purchase a new home.
While they were intrigued by rental home option, this was not for them at that time. So, they decided that given how fast the market was moving, that they would find the new home first and then list the current home.
After doing the necessary due diligence to determine proper pricing and finding a contractor to do the small punch list of items, we had a plan. Aaron worked with Mark and Natalie to get everything prepared to list. Work was done, photos and video were shot and ready to go. Now, it was just a matter of finding the next home.
Because of their family’s lack of time, Aaron had to be extra strategic about viewing homes. Fortunately, it did not take too long to find The One. And, within 3 days, they were signed around on a contingent offer to purchase, and within 2 weeks of that, they were under contract on the sale of their current home.
The Outcome
Coming up with a succinct plan and then executing that plan effectively allowed the JanusGroup to help Mark and Natalie achieve great results quickly. They had the listing ready to go before looking at homes, and then when they found The One, they were able to get on the market quickly and attract a great offer.
While this particular type of transaction can be a lot of work, it does not have to be a lot of stress. When the work is managed effectively, and everyone is aware of the plan, it can be smooth as silk!
Now, with way more space to sprawl out, Mark, Natalie, and the kids are happy!