Buying a Home

When you find your "dream home", you want your offer to be the most competitive! Call Kathie today to discuss the steps you can take now that will put you in the best position to have your offer accepted.

An important first step is finding a qualified lender with a loan program to fit your financial needs and goals for your real estate portfolio. This will help you to identify a price range, and a letter from your lender should be submitted when you are ready to write and submit an offer.

Also important is identifying the area and neighborhoods that you are interested in evaluating. Take an afternoon to tour six to eight homes in the parameters that are important to you (size, price, number of bedrooms, etc).

Once you find the right home, and your financing is in order, you are ready to make an offer.

Following the acceptance of an offer, you have 17 calendar days to research and inspect your prospective home.

Escrow is opened and your lender works with you to get the best "rate" and terms for your loan and financing.

The DeBord Group will assist you in all of these and many additional steps. It is important to work with a qualified and experienced REALTOR® to ensure that you and your interests are protected in the process of buying a new home.

Why RE/MAX?

RE/MAX is the #1 real estate company worldwide
RE/MAX is the #1 real estate company in the United States
RE/MAX is the #1 real estate company in El Dorado County
Kathie DeBord and The DeBord Group team is fomally recognized by RE/MAX as the #1 agent (year to date award for 2005) and team (year to date award for 2006)

When you choose a RE/MAX Sales Associate to sell your home or help you purchase a new home, you'll experience a whole new level of service. And Kathie’s brand of doing business, backed by the reputation and resources of RE/MAX, is second to none.

First, RE/MAX Associates are “The Hometown Experts With a World of Experience®”. Across the globe, they make their living in the same communities in which they live. They're the people next door, or just down the block.

Consummate professionals, RE/MAX Associates on average lead agents of competing brands in advanced real estate education and production. That's why they're known as "The Real Estate Leaders®" and why no one in the world sells more real estate than RE/MAX.

Customer Satisfaction

The proof of quality service is in repeat customers and in customers who refer RE/MAX Associates to their friends. RE/MAX Sales Associates average 70 percent of their business from repeats and referrals, while other agents average about 30 percent from those sources.

For All You're Worth®

On average, RE/MAX associates sell more real estate than other agents. They are better qualified to set the right price for the homes they list, are better equipped to market those homes, and are likely to find a buyer in a shorter period of time. That experience and education also means they are better qualified to find the right home for any buyer.

RE/MAX Competitive Advantages

The real estate network that has the most competitive advantages to offer both home buyers and sellers will be an industry leader, and RE/MAX is that network.

Competitive Advantages Include:

Advertising

Personal advertising plus national television advertising and Internet exposure generates the highest number of prospects in the industry. On average, a RE/MAX Associate spends about $8,000 each year on personal promotion and on individual and group advertising. However, Kathie DeBord spends as much as $8,000 per month on individual and group advertising – up to 12 times more than agents who are considered to lead in this category.

Network Size

The revolutionary RE/MAX Concept of enabling real estate professionals to maximize their business potential has evolved into an organization of more than 100,000 Sales Associates in more than 5,400 offices.

The RE/MAX Balloon Logo

The red, white and blue RE/MAX Balloon, with its "Above the Crowd®" slogan, is one of the most recognizable business logos in the world. With more than 90 RE/MAX Hot Air Balloons around the globe, RE/MAX has the world's largest balloon fleet.

The Sign That Brings You Home®

The famous red-over-white-over-blue RE/MAX yard sign and your RE/MAX agent lead you to properties in areas in which you'll want to live and work. If you want to sell your property, the RE/MAX yard sign attracts buyers. Nobody sells more real estate than RE/MAX.

An Industry Leader

RE/MAX was the first real estate network to be involved in more than 1 million transaction sides in a single year. Each transaction or sale consists of two sides, the listing side and the selling side.

Global Expansion

With offices in more than 50 countries worldwide, RE/MAX is one of the fastest-growing real estate franchise networks on the planet.

Main Street. Not Wall Street.®

Being locally owned and operated, RE/MAX offices are staffed with professionals who live in the area they work in. Thus, committed to their local community, they have a deep personal interest in the customers they serve.

Home of the Best Agents®

In a business environment of mergers and acquisitions, RE/MAX is the only major real estate network still owned and directed by its founders. The excellence of RE/MAX Broker/Owners and Sales Associates has led to an ever-increasing number of accolades from the business community at large. "Worth" magazine honored RE/MAX with its prestigious "Readers' Choice" award in both 1999 and 2000, naming RE/MAX the No. 1 real estate brokerage. In January 2005, "Entrepreneur" magazine ranked RE/MAX among the top 10 franchises in its 26th Annual Franchise 500 survey. It also named RE/MAX: "Best of the Best" for real estate services; the highest-ranking real estate franchise in "Low Cost Franchises"; and No. 7 overall in "America's Top Global Franchises."

More Than 32 Years "Above the Crowd®"

RE/MAX - now an established industry leader - celebrated its 32nd anniversary in 2004 and looks ahead to even greater real estate achievement in the years ahead.