Step 3: Finding a Realtor.
Find an awesome realtor. In this market, you have to ACT fast. Houses this summer in Texas were going into bidding wars the day they went onto the market. And having a realtor who will work with you and be willing to drop whatever they are doing to show a house is the realtor you want.
A good realtor will help you keep your head strait when in the "la la land bliss" of looking at houses. Each house I stepped into I was just in aww of how pretty it looked, and the fact that I was actually looking at houses that I wasn't paying ANY attention to foundation, cracks in window seals, what direction the house was facing toward the sun, signs of water damage, signs of house settling, is the carpet new, can grass grown in this dirt, are the cabinets showing termite damage, etc...
A good realtor also knows the market and what banks will agree to. We fell in love with one house and really wanted it. The house was listed below Dan's and my budget
There are lots of realtors out there, so I would ask around and choose your realtor based on referrals.
Some buyers are worried that they will have to pay their realtor, which might be true, but USUALLY it is the seller that pays all those costs, so it does you no harm at all getting a professional on your side.
We were very privileged to have a great realtor, Danna Fason, who my parents had worked with a year before. She was awesome.
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