If Moving To Nashville Tennessee In 2022 Don't Make Huge Mistakes

I have seen the same

mistakes

over and over again in my 35 years as a real estate agent here in the Middle Tennessee area with people

moving

to the area and this probably

make

s sense anywhere you go. If I moved to another state I would probably

make

the mistake, but it's mistake number one. I see it every time and I'm here to share with you exactly what it is and help you get through it so you can have a transition anywhere in the US, but especially if you move to Nashville it's a lot easier if that's important you should stay with me, let's move on because I think someone is about to roof next door.

Thank you. Hi, I'm Susan Thetford, a real estate agent with Parks Properties here in the Nashville area and a Nashville native. one of the few Nashvillens left and here on the show we talk about everything related to

moving

to Nashville in different areas, no one often doesn't realize that when you move to Nashville you may be in Hendersonville or Mount Juliet or Franklin Tennessee and those are counties that surround Nashville and may be the perfect place for you that gives you easy access to Nashville. That's the kind of information I want to share with you so I can help ease your transition into the area much more smoothly with a lot less hassle and stress, so if that's of interest to you, subscribe to the program, press the bell because every week we make a new video and I don't want you to miss it today.

I share with you the three biggest

mistakes

I see people make when they move to Nashville and there is such an order that it's almost like making a recipe, you really have to do things in the right order for it to be successful. and moving to Middle Tennessee, moving to Nashville can be very successful and less stressful if we put things in the right order and understand the market, that's where I come in, it's called the kitchen, which is really where everything happens right, they all happen the good things. In the kitchen, let's start from the beginning and I'll tell you what I'm going to be very kind to you.

I'll do it in order of importance, so instead of doing all three, two, a You Gotta Stick To It type of situation. I will tell you topic number one first because it is truly the most important. Now I'll tell you to stick to the end because I'll give you a good idea. prices for some of the areas you may have heard of I will give you the highest ones and the house that sold the most last week in the house that sold the least last week so you have up to Right now it's October

2022

. Updated pricing information for some of these top areas, so stick around until the end so you can stay up to date with exactly what's happening overseas.

Bar None in my 35 years of selling real estate here in the Nashville area and especially in the last two years because we have had thousands of people, up to a hundred a day, moving to the Middle Tennessee area in the last two years, so The first thing I found that everyone does is you. start on Zillow, start on Zillow looking for houses and start describing the house you want, the first thing people do when they call me and text me or say, I want to talk to you about moving to the Nashville area, the first thing they They want to talk and I get it, it's not much more fun.

What I would like to talk about is the house they want. Garage for three cars. Master on the main level. I need an open concept. I want you to know that you know exactly what you want. I know. exactly what you want after you've told me, but that doesn't help us at all to start the whole process, so yes, make your wish list in order of priority: what you must have and what you want to have , and if there are two. If you make a decision or seven of you make a decision, you have to make sure that the top five on that list match up so that one of you doesn't want an acre and a half and the other one has to have a quarter. one acre but a completely new construction.

Put that list together. Everyone who made the decisions needs to be on the same page with that top five list, but when you start looking for a home here in Nashville. In the Tennessee area, you're not looking for a house, we're looking for the community, we're looking for the things you need in a community and then once we've determined from the hundreds and hundreds of communities there are to choose from. then we're going to move on to the next step, but the number one problem is: don't do your research in the city on crime, on a lot of different things, do your own research there, but don't go on Zillow and fall for it.

I'm in love with the house because I can promise you it's never happened that that house was maybe in a community that someone wanted or a price that someone could handle, so save yourself the heartache, save yourself the heartache, yes it's true . save yourself the pain and also don't think your real estate agent isn't listening to you if you start with that long list and they don't send you things that tick all of those things on that list, it's not that we're not listening, it's not available so just leave get frustrated and start doing something else and that's not all.

Describing the house you want is the number one problem most people start with and it will never work well for you. The second error I see. everyone does it and unless they've had someone like me to help them, they don't get pre-approved, it doesn't do you any good to find a house you like if it's not in your price range and especially making an assumption. If you got pre-approved at the beginning of the year, at the beginning of

2022

, when we were still at a four percent, three and a half percent interest rate, now we're at a seven percent interest rate, so what could afford a couple of months ago is not at all what you can afford now if affordability is a concern and who is it not a concern for so get pre-approved or even show up for the first visit to Nashville to really search and find your home by getting pre-approved with a trusted lender.

Who is here in town that is probably not part of the larger Nationwide group and you know who they are? You need a local lender that works with investors that has different programs that may work better here in the Community than somewhere else. Other areas say that in California we have to get pre-approved by a local lender who will do the research and find the best deals for you as to what your investors will allow, but also have a really good relationship so that when we see that the rates interest have increased or decreased. When your real estate agent can reach out to them and say, do we need to go back up?

Do we need to recalculate what we can afford now? We are seriously looking. We have perfected. We as a community know exactly where we want to be, but we got pre-approval six weeks ago. Do we need to look at that again and maybe turn it up, maybe turn it down a little bit? The other part is that you have to do it. Learn the difference between a pre-approval and a pre-qualification. Pre-qualification doesn't really mean anything, it's just a shot in the dark, so again, working with someone to get those pre-approvals can be done over the phone, over email, and get it done. from the privacy of your home when you know where your records are you haven't moved you don't have them all in boxes that's a very easy way to do it bringing the community together when we do this research on the communities more knowing the prices you can pay with the current interest rates is paramount to having a smooth move, the number two problem I have seen everyone have is not getting pre-approved with a local lender.

The third biggest mistake I see people make is not finding a trustworthy real estate agent, whether it's me, whoever it is, find a trustworthy real estate agent who will tell you what you want, he's not going to give you nonsense, he's not going to give you It will give you the wrong order of things, it will not only prepare you for a search that we all do. We can do without listening and knowing what price point we should be at without understanding exactly what you need in a home without helping you go through the list of things you need in a home that are non-negotiable vs. negotiable, finding a trusted real estate agent. roots, someone who when I tell you guys look this may not be the best community for you and will take you to places where you can find some research, you may or may not know that there are a lot of things that we as real estate agents, we can't talk. uh crime, we can't talk about safety, we can't talk about schools, technically we can't talk, but we can guide you to the places where you can find that information, so you need to trust your real estate agent enough to know that They know what they are.

Speaking of when they tell you something and they have no problem with you trying to confirm those things, finding a trusted link may or may not become your best friend, but it will be someone who tells you things as if for you it were the good thing, the bad and the bad. Ugly, skinny, disgusting, whatever, you need to have someone you really trust to make the most important purchase of your life. One more thing about this real estate agent that I really want you to trust and know that they know what they are. Talking about our Market has changed drastically.

Someone who is not actively in the market, constantly working day to day with buyers and sellers, may not realize that sellers have to negotiate a lot more. You may not realize that you, as a buyer, have some purchasing power. didn't last year, thousands of realtors left this market because it's very, very different when you're making the biggest purchase of your life, in most cases, finding someone who really knows the market and understands that the market it's really important, so find a really trustworthy real estate agent, stick with them and work together, so as I promised, we're going to get to the heart of the matter here, as I promised.

I'm going to share with you the biggest highs and lows. most expensive and least expensive home for sale in some of the top areas you may or may not have heard of Davidson County is where Nashville is Williamson County is where Franklin Brentwood Thompson Station some of the other areas of the that you may have heard of in Wilson County is Mount Juliet, you've probably heard of that and then in Sumner County is Hendersonville by the lake. I'm going to share with you the high and low prices from the last week so that when you tell me I need a three-car garage and I want five bedrooms and I want the Mastered on the main level and I also want uh I don't have, I don't know, it doesn't matter when you tell me those things and I know that you are pre-approved and the pre-approval amount is 600, we are going to take down Williamson County, you will take it off the table and the good thing about taking things off the table is that, step by step Step, let's take things off the table. table because they don't fit for one reason or another then it makes your job my job so much easier to find the perfect home for you makes your job so much easier to find the perfect community and home for you when you move to Nashville , so stick around, this will be revealing.

People always want to know what is happening in the market. Well, you know, I can tell you how I feel, but the numbers don't lie, so let's look at Davidson County. What happened in the market? 33 new active homes came on the market last week. We're only looking at the last seven days. Updated information. 33 new listings came on the market and 30 homes closed, meaning they got a new buyer. signed on the dotted line and that's a normal and healthy thing 33 in 30 out that's a pretty balanced market when you look at it as a little microcosm of seven days, let's look at the most expensive oh and there are nine houses Coming Soon and six of the houses that are currently on the market are under construction, so I couldn't really close them today even if I wanted to, but let's take a look at, you see, these are just the red ones, they're the ones that are closed. actively closed and this first house that closed for the least amount of money was for 227,500 now this is a rental house three bedrooms one bathroom thousand square feet I would show you more pictures but they don't have any more and um that's purely a rental house, so let's move on to all the ones that closed so you can see the most expensive house that closed in Nashville Davidson County over the last week was this house at 1704 Electric Avenue for 2 million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

It sold, it went under contract the day it went on the market, you want to see some pictures, this is what you really want to see, give me pictures, so it's a five bedroom, four and a half bath house, obviously new construction, uh, in one area. that's pretty cool, contemporary I love the honed and honed black granite I think that's what it is um 3720 square feet this is close to the center of town it has a deep pool and a very interesting looking house so obviously new construction 3 700 square feet sold for 2 million 250 that was in the last seven days now stay,i will find out exactly what happened in the Williamson County area, so this was Davidson County in Nashville, then let's go to Williamson County, please, foreigners always want to know what the status of the market is, what it looks like, It's a good time to buy, it's a good time to sell, well, you know, I don't have that crystal ball, but I can tell you statistically exactly what happened and that's where it's really important to know. because you might hear that prices are going down and you made a big purchase let's see exactly what happened in this video. it's about Williamson County Williamson County is where the major cities of Brentwood Franklin are located um uh Spring Hill Thompson Station nolansville those are the major cities in Franklin Did I say the major cities in Williamson County last week in Williamson County there are 247 homes that came on the market as active or closed changed their status of that total of 247 homes, 147 are active, meaning they're actively on the market for you and I to take a look at, but some of them are actually 16 of which will be available soon, you can really do that.

I don't see it yet, so 21 are under contract or pending inspection, so there are actually 137, about 110 active homes that you and I can buy in Williamson County that came on the market last week. How many houses are closed? How many houses did it? the key transfer happened last week and you have a new buyer in Williamson County and it's 100. So as you can see, 100 closed, 110 came on the market, it's a pretty balanced market just in the last week and, yes, still We are in those seven. percent almost interest rate, but there are buyers and there are sellers, that is proof.

I bet you want to know what they are. These are the assets. I'm not going to show you that you probably want to know which is the least expensive house that closed last. The week was a condo in Spring Hill of approximately 1200 square feet, it remained on the market for approximately 30 days. You want to take a look. This is what a two-story townhouse in Spring Hill looked like. Spring Hill and that's the Williamson County side of Spring. Hill Spring Hill is way south, right on the Murray County line, Williamson County, ah, there you go, the last seven days, the most expensive house to close on, oh, I gotta get my face out of the way, It won't work, I'll die, I'll learn technique. soon this is the most expensive house that closed uh closed on October 11th a week ago it's in Avalon five bedrooms seven full bathrooms three half bathrooms eleven omg 11,000 square feet all the pictures there you go you need to see this pretty great house yeah , pretty great.

So if you've eaten something like what you've missed, that's beautiful, very nice. See, so if you had a little over five million dollars two weeks ago, you could possibly have bought. Oh wow, how many I hope cook! a lot, wow, level warming drawer, although that's the best, but if you cook a lot, this would be perfect for you, but you've missed your chance, this tells me that at least for the last week or so as things come to light market. Houses are coming off the market. It seems to me that we are pretty balanced, so we are ready to go.

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