Our proven home buying process

When you decide to purchase a house, it’s usually not a simple decision. Home buying requires months of pre-planning to review listings, tour properties, and negotiate with real estate agents. That’s why having an experienced team on your side when you're ready to buy your home can streamline the process of getting you from homebuyer to homeowner.

Why Choosing a Professional Real Estate Agent is Your Best Decision

It might be tempting to work with a Redfin or Zillow agent, where services are often discounted, and the process seems straightforward.

However, you absolutely do not want to cheap out when making the biggest financial transaction in your life.

Here’s why:

1. Tailored Expertise and Local Knowledge

Deep Market Insight: A local agent understands the fine nuances of the market for your particular area, from trends in home prices to the subtle changes from one neighborhood to another, which can greatly affect how much a house is worth.

Personalized Service: Unlike automated services or agents handling high volumes of clients, we provide tailored advice based on your unique situation and goals, ensuring every step of your home buying journey is aligned with your best interests.

2. Better Negotiation Skills

Maximizing Value: In addition, if you work with a professional real estate agent, he can apply sophisticated negotiation skills to achieve better price and terms. Odigo agents have a track record of negotiating offers which turn out thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars better than the initial bids-something you are unlikely to ever experience with a mass-market agent.

Handling Complex Situations: Whether it’s navigating multiple offers, counter-offers, or complex contingencies, a seasoned agent has the experience and finesse to ensure you’re not leaving money on the table.

3. Full-Spectrum Support Through the Process

More Than a Transaction: While a Redfin or Zillow agent may be able to facilitate the bare essentials, a full-service real estate agent will provide end-to-far-more support than just showing homes. From pre-approval financial planning and mortgage consultations to post-closing follow-ups, we're with you every step of the way.

Access to Off-Market Properties: With our proprietary off-market listings and networking, we can sometimes find opportunities that are not available to the general public online. This is particularly effective in low-inventory and highly competitive markets.

4. Personal Accountability and Trust

Success with a Client-First Approach: Not by the number of transactions, but your satisfaction is the way we at Odigo Real Estate Club measure success. We are working day in and day out to earn your trust and offer a satisfaction guarantee where if you feel that we haven't performed in the way you expected, we will forgo our commission, which is not something you will get with online platforms.

Long-Term Relationships: We are not only here for this one transaction, but to be your lifetime real estate partner, offering continued support, advice, and assistance long after the sale is complete.

5. Avoid Costly Mistakes

Watch Out for Your Good: There are a number of pitfalls when buying a home, from complex contracts to finance problems. A professional agent will protect your interests and keep the possibility of devastatingly expensive mistakes at a minimum, particularly when using inexperienced or burdened agents.

Value for Money Spent: Using a discount agent will come at the cost of getting poor service and weak skill, ultimately, costing you thousands of dollars. At Odigo Real Estate Club, you have value for money spent on our services because you are guaranteed that you are in expert hands.

6. Proven Results

Success Stories: Our clients consistently beat the market, whether by selling their homes significantly over asking price or securing dream homes in highly competitive markets. Such success is the direct result of hands-on, personalized service-one that only a dedicated real estate agent can give.

Work with Odigo Real Estate Agents

There is no substitute for a professional real estate agent in experience, negotiating position, and personal touch.

With Odigo Real Estate Club, you have chosen a partner who will go above and beyond your expectations to make your experience of purchasing a home nothing short of exceptional.

What makes our team standout from hundreds of other agents and agencies in our region?

  • Over 10 years of experience and proven skills
  • Over a hundred reviews from happy clients
  • Fair yet competitive negotiations
  • Transparency in fees and everything else
  • Expert guidance whenever you need
  • Satisfaction guaranteed
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Odigo's Step-by-Step Home Buying Process

Our time-tested home-buying process sets us apart.

1. Initial Consultation

At Odigo, we want each of our clients to buy the home they want. That's why we start every home buying process with a consultation to learn about your requirements. We'll use the information to find the best communities and available properties in your price range.

2. Choose A Mortgage Lender

You can certainly choose whichever mortgage lender you want, however, we recommend working with our tried and trustworthy lenders. From our experience, going with the cheapest rate from the wrong lender will lead to headaches down the line.

3. Get Relevant Property Listings Into Your Inbox

Once we know the type of property you want and have a mortgage lender, we'll add you to our automated listing alert system. It emails you information about various property listings that match your criteria. Plus, these listing alerts are incredibly detailed.

The information comes from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service, so anything on Zillow, Redfin, and other popular real estate sites that match your criteria will be in this system. You'll get property listing information as soon as it's available, directly to your inbox.

4. Tour Homes With No Delay

After you select properties you'd like to explore, you can contact us directly by text or phone. We'll take the time to review these properties with you to make sure they fit your requirements.

When it's time to tour the houses, you can schedule a tour with any one of our showing specialists. You can be confident a member of our team will be available to show the property, even if your primary agent is unavailable.

5. Negotiate With Listing Agents on Your Behalf

Contract negotiating with listing agents is one of our Core Strengths. As you've experienced, the real estate market in Washington is very competitive, which means multiple-offer situations are very common. We know how to ask the right questions to get the answers we need and level out the competition.

Know that we are expert negotiators who will go above and beyond for your deal. Ask us about our high success rate for winning bids in multiple-offer situations despite our offers occasionally being lower than other buyers. We’d love to share the details with you.

6. Coordinate the Transaction

When a seller accepts your offer, you'll officially be under contract to buy your home. We'll guide you through the process, as will your transaction manager. With us, every detail of your home-buying process will be easier and we will make sure that you are aware of what is going on every step of the way.

7. Perform House Inspections and Continue Negotiating

Another benefit of working with us involves house inspections. These inspections uncover possible damages so that you'll know what to expect before moving in.

We will pay for the house inspector to evaluate the property and generate a report. Depending on the report's outcome, we can negotiate with the seller to repair specific problems or help you secure financial credit.

8. Final Walkthrough

The final walkthrough will occur a few days before closing the house. We'll personally make sure that the home is up to par and doesn't have any red flags that could give you problems in the near future.

9. Key Ceremony and Follow-Up

Congratulations! At this point we will hand you your keys to your new home.

We will also follow up with you to make sure that transitioning into your new home is as smooth as possible. This could look like referring you to contractors we trust for home renovations, coordinating movers to move your belongings into your new home, or anything else you may need.

Hear From Our Clients

AnjuliBall
Bought and sold a Single Family home in Snohomish, WA

"Peter helped us buy our first home in 2013. When we were considering selling we knew he’d be able to help! Peter and John helped us sell our house in 2022 in less than a week and the process was so smooth! They helped us get the most for our house in a market where house prices were headed down. Then they spent almost year with us as we searched for our next perfect home. They took us to many showings, gave honest and helpful feedback and gave us confidence that we could trust their advice and market expertise. We finally found the right house and they were able to get us a great deal! We even recommended them to our parents and friends. The advice they give has always been what’s best for the client (ie you shouldn’t sell right now). Now that’s an agent you can trust! We would go with Peter and John over and over again. They were also great with our kids who came to most showings."

Luke
Bought a Townhouse home in Fremont, Seattle, WA.

"John is a fantastic realtor and I would highly recommend him for anyone looking to buy a home. As a first time home buyer, John took the time to thoughtfully explain each step of the process, being patient and answering all questions that I had. His team was great from setting up tours, all the way to closing. If I had more money, I would be buying a second property with him!"

Jessica
Bought Single Family home in Bellevue, WA

"Peter kept us honest in terms of what would resell, what to avoid, and helped us find a great fit for us. The market was very competitive when we bought and he helped us hone our offer to beat out 19 other offers."

Nick
Bought a single family home in lake stevens, wa

"BEST decision we made during the home buying process was working with John! He went above and beyond to help my fiancé and I get into our first home on our FIRST OFFER EVER!! Not to mention he helped us beat a competing higher offer and a higher down payment."

Ole
Bought Single Family home in kirkland, WA

"We ended up getting the house for 50k under asking, and 25k under appraised value, which is unheard of in this market. The amount of behind the scenes work Peter and his team did was truly impressive."

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