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   We are often surprised at how casually many buyers select a real estate professional. Often it's not even understood that the licensee is that buyer's legal representative.

That's why we urge anyone who is embarking on a real estate purchase to call Niel Thomas and schedule a Buyer's Consultation. There is no obligation, but you will learn a lot. If it seems mutually beneficial to formalize the relationship and move forward with your project, we can. If not, no hard feelings.

Here's a typical agenda:

• Representation: Licensee relationships as Alaska laws defines them
• Professional Services Agreement: Hiring a real estate licensee: like "listing" a real estate company the way a seller does
• Guarantee: The Coldwell Banker Buyers Services Guarantee
• Making Your List: How to identify property that fits your criteria: sources of property listings
• FSBO sales: How your real estate professional represents you when the seller is unrepresented
• Financing: how to select a compatible loan officer as a member of your property purchase team
• "Bias and Prejudice": Niel's confession of why he thinks some properties are worth considering and why he suggests you should avoid others
• Seller Disclosures: What a legally-sufficient disclosure must contain and what a seller does not have to tell you
• Purchase and Sale Agreement: The MLS purchase documents, how they protect your rights as a consumer, and what your obligations are
• Negotiation Strategy: What types of proposals to a seller have the best chance of success; competing when there are multiple offers
• Property Inspections: How you choose inspectors based on what you know about a property, and what more you need to learn
• Negotiating Repairs: When your inspector comes up with a "show stopper" what should be said to the seller, and your lender?
• Closing Process: What do you have to do to stay on schedule and how does your real estate professional keep all the balls in the air?
• Concierge Services: Coldwell Banker's "staffer who knows everybody" and how she makes your real estate life easier