By Melissa Albert, Relocation Specialist
Why buying first makes sense
You lock today's prices and today's rates, you avoid a double move, and you arrive with the biggest project already done. In a market growing as fast as Bowling Green's, the inventory you want today may not be there in six months.
The videos make it sane: filmed tours, live walkthroughs and honest calls let you shortlist without boarding a plane.
The safeguards that keep it honest
Never buy blind: every remote purchase keeps its contingencies. Local inspection, appraisal, title review through the Kentucky attorney, and a final walkthrough before you take the keys.
The golden rule: you can buy from anywhere, but only if the local team is holding the calendar. A good agent, inspector and attorney make a remote close boring, which is the goal.
The one-weekend visit
Plan the trip like a site visit: two or three shortlist homes, the neighborhoods on film-worthy routes, schools, commute dry-runs and a lunch downtown. Confirm, don't discover.
If you cannot make the trip before the closing date, extend the date. The right home and the right close are worth both.
Written where it happened
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