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Rating Dial
To help analyse a home we use the James Home Rating tool. James Home Ratings is a logical, scientific, independent and patented buying process that we invented over a decade ago to assist you the buyer maximise your emotional and financial outcomes.
Each characteristic is weighted to reflect its importance against other characteristics, according to our observations over the years. For more information on the logic and laws behind James Home Ratings please download the book.
Clarity - Assess - Value - Negotiate Process
A good buying decision means a better home (you didn't miss it to another buyer) or more money in your bank (you didn't pay too much and you still bought the home) or an option you never even considered (an off market or better alternative). Every home you look at
requires decisions, so why not make them good ones. To make better decisions we have found a process that really works. So whether we are buying a Carpenter St Brighton investment in 1994 for $350,000 and selling it for $2,250,000 in 2005 or a single fronted in Highbury Grove Prahran for $1,000,000 (2007) and the client selling for
$1,500,000 + (2012) when much of the market remained flat, we followed a process. When we acted for the government on a $31,000,000 initial asking price in Torquay that we bought for under $13,000,000 we followed a process - and one that works.
Help Me Buy Now Can we help you with Negotiation, Values, Dealing with Agents or finding Off Markets. Initially your only commitment is a 5 minute conversation. Call +613 9804 3133 I bought my first home in 1985 and our company, James Buyer Advocates has been in its current form since 2002,
any one of a number of qualified, experienced and local advocates can help you take the stress, time wasting, and misinformation out of buying a home. You can see your local buying expert by clicking on the Architect Adam section. So relax and open your mind to something completely different when buying and home. Enjoy James, be
informed and watch the stress disappear!
Thank you for your time.
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18 Reid Street BALWYN
Clarity
Good buying decisions increase your chances of good long term emotional, physical and financial outcomes for you and your family.
All buyers have emotion and inherent biases on home decision making and many rely purely on intuition. While intuition can produce some stellar results; test after test shows it is inferior to expert value analysis.
Our role is to provide the home buying client with a proven process and the tools to make good decisions.
We begin with Stage One: Clarity.
Last year we rated 2000 homes, covered 1200 auctions but only bought 80 homes. We're picky! And you should be too.
When buying a home people want to achieve good financial and good emotional outcomes.
Buyers have to make many decisions - some have good results and some may have bad.
To maximise the good and minimise the bad, we at James Buyer Advocates take you through a process called James Home Ratings.
Clarity is the start of the Ratings process.
We can show you how clarity saves time, stress and ultimately money by encouraging you to focus on the important points about the home and only on the homes that really count.
If the home passes your 'sleep test' then it's onto the next, more detailed stages of our process:
Home Match
Expert Assess
Control Value
Negotiation
If at any stage you would like more obligation free information about how a James Buyer Advocate can help or you then please contact us on 9804 3133
Emotional
Physical
Financial
Happy Wife Happy Life
Too far from Future needs (eg secondary schools)
Too Big A Strain
A Fresh Start
Expansion for Future Needs (eg unknown addition)
Too Restrictive on Other Choices
A False Start
Too Close Internally (parents to kids - growth?)
Manageable
Clarity Question: Is this property the best home for you?
No
Maybe
Yes
1. Will 18 Reid Street fall within my budget?
2. Did it pass my first impressions test?
3. Do others like the feel of Reid - did it pass their sleep test?
4. Do we like this BALWYN precinct - is it good for family, work, children?
5. At 1,055 sqm is it big enough for what we want?
6. Is this site big enough to build the home you really want?
7. Can and do we want to fix any shortcomings?
8. 5 Year Flexibility - Can this be a longer term happy family home?
9. Will it hold its value long term as is or with renovations?
*Three of the questions we ask to establish your needs.
NO
MAYBE
YES
Clarity Decision: Is 18 Reid Street the best home for you?
Your professionalism, judgment and communication with us was exemplary. Many thanks Gina. I can‘t begin to tell you how impressed Marika are with all of the work that you and Mal did for us in the past week. Your professionalism, judgment and communication with us was exemplary. We would not contemplate buying in Melbourne without your guidance. Chris