It is,

A Whole New Way To Buy a Home!

(Based on our consultative-style support.)

One of the tenets of consultative-support involves servicing buyers needs long before they actually view their first home.  This could be from Timbuctu, or from right here in Belleville or any other local towns,, but the same pre-servicing still prevails:

The majority of homes available to buyers in SW Illinois are offered through the realty community ....through the Multiple Listing Service, (87% in our communities.) For decades, the MLS has been benefiting consumers by offering seller listings to the entire realty community... it has been an extremely successful consumer-oriented tool.

But now, this ultimate tool! Here we offer access to the entire homes-for-sale database...in real time…in one easy-to-use location. You'll be viewing exactly the same data base that we use. The data is now an open commodity.

It's a whole new way to buy a home! It's a new kind of partnership between you and the realty agent. You contribute enormously to the locate function, viewing actual candidates for your power search, and gaining an understanding of the market! Besides being important, we're told it's fun.

The agent plays an active, indispensable role in the process however…in helping to evaluate candidates found. In a process started weeks or more before the visit, the location and setting, the community context and much more can best be evaluated through local, experienced eyes.

Also,in a so-called "tight market" situation, buyers sometimes must wait on inventory to be listed, we call it the "lurk and pounce" system! So monitoring new listings frequently becomes a necessity. Phone lines and email lines are hot during this period as buyers and agents connect in a new partnership. And our "tracker" can automate it.

Remember these basic points:

Of all of the listings you'll view, NONE will be Home Relo's listings; because the company policy is to serve only buyers, never sellers. Consider those enormous advantages, recited here and elsewhere. It just makes sense!

Every single available home for sale will be here. You won't need to jump from company to company to find them all.

And none will be "preferred", implying it's the company's own listings. Every listing will be evaluated in absolute objectivity.

When you want additional information on ANY of these listings, or want to see them, regardless of the listing company, please give us a call. Remember, calling the listing agent or agency connects you with an agent and an agent promising to support the seller's interests, not yours. We'll give you absolutely impartial advice about the neighborhoods, resaleability and other important information.

While the information here is "real time".. .the same as that we use... remember that the market is constantly in flux. . . and that some of these homes will be under contract, with records not yet updated by the listing agency. Only "active and available" homes will be shown here. (We have ways for mining MLS data for expireds, off the markets, canceled, etc., too.)

We, (and you), may also need to adjust your criteria from time to time. Minor tweaks could help us zero in on the one "perfect" home. See "HOMEWORK" to learn of our "targeting" method for providing "best chance" matches of your needs.)

When you get to town, non listed sources of property will be searched to add to the options you can consider. . . .new builds and non-listed pre owned homes. (See the "New Home Construction" button above and on the main menu.)

The detail that you'll access is exactly the detail that we get from the MLS, too, so it's complete ... and if you're local and want to do drive-bys, you'll have the addresses.

But this warning ... just ahead of the "Ready To Search" link taking you to the search engine, there's a link titled "Tips For Using". Please review that too, just once, or some of the quirks of the search program could frustrate you badly!

To get us involved with the evaluation process, simply call, or email, and we'll assign a person to serve as your "partner", before and after you get to town.

The services offered here are free, and you're absolutely under no obligation. Our service is designed first to serve you, but secondly, it's intended to ultimately help us earn the opportunity to assist you with your real estate needs when the time is right.

But that's still not all... You can do these self-searches at your convenience, but by simply registering with us (first name and email address), you can receive a notice of new listings matching your criteria, whenever they come onto the market. That's the "Tracker" we speak of. And it's done automatically! (No registration of any kind is required for the basic MLS "Search the Market".)

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