Showing a newer home can be a challenge for a real estate agent. The home buyer and seller both have high expectations. A knowledgeable real estate agent can help make this transaction process easier by understanding the characteristics of a newer home. Helping the prospective home buyer temper their expectations for a newer home is important. A real estate agent’s ability to identify the typical problems found in a newer home and put them into perspective for a buyer is necessary. A knowledgeable real estate agent can help their client know what to expect from their newer home to help ease anxiety.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

•       Estimate the life cycles of numerous components of a newer home.

•       Predict what to expect from a newer home

•       Advise and prepare the buyer

•       Assess the conditions of typical parts of a newer home that wear out.