Sourcebook Volume 9, 2010

Coldwell Banker Landmark Group

Building a relationship with a realtor based on trust and expectation is the surest way to guarantee your home buying or selling needs are met, says Chris Hasvold, Co-Owner and Managing Broker of Coldwell Banker Landmark Group. That relationship starts from the first meeting. If you don’t feel the realtor understands your requirements, find another one, he says.

Following that, knowing the current market for selling your home or buying a new one is critical, both for you and your realtor. Hasvold says today’s perception that an out-of-area realtor can do a better job for a client is wrong. The more local a realtor is, the keener knowledge of pricing and requirements will provide for a seamless finalizing of a sale.

With access to MLS listings on the Internet, it would seem a realtor anywhere could manage a home sale in Fallbrook or Bonsall. Not true. No one but a locally owned realtor like Coldwell Banker Landmark Group knows the intricacies of buying and selling homes and property here.

Examples, Hasvold points out, are: “marking corners,” an aspect of insuring correct lot lines, frequently identified inaccurately on rural property; “septic,” the complications of septic tank requirements when property is transferred; “private roads,” maintenance agreement obligations, which accompany home sales; and lastly, “title reports,” which in a community founded in the 1800s are often 20-30 pages long. City realtors can’t possibly know how to handle these issues, Hasvold says. But, at Coldwell Banker Landmark Group, with over 700 years of Fallbrook and Bonsall real estate experience, Hasvold asserts, “we’ve dealt with everything possible.”

Recognizing the marketing value in a property, its imposing view, perhaps an onsite cash crop of avocados or oranges, proximity to the school bus stop or golf course, or even in-depth knowledge of the myriad events that earn Fallbrook the title of the Friendly Village, are sales tactics that only a locally based realtor can use with confidence.

To find out more about the property and land market in Fallbrook and Bonsall, log onto www.CBLandmark.com, then contact one of the 45 realtors at Coldwell Banker Landmark Group at (760)728-8000 and start building a relationship with a realtor in the “know.”