BUYING A HOME IN TORONTO OR THE GTA
A Better Way To Buy
a home in toronto or the gta
Shopping in Toronto or anywhere across the Greater Toronto Area for your first home or a new home can be a difficult and stressful experience. While some may enjoy the process of reviewing, exploring and considering which place is perfect to call home, others find the entire process daunting, and nerve-wracking. As your Toronto realtor, Reece puts himself in your shoes and makes buying a home a smooth and comfortable experience.
Reece is unique in how he connects you with your perfect home. He builds genuine and lasting relationships with everyone he works with and effortlessly goes above and beyond your expectations. His goal is to make the buying experience as easy and stress-free as possible for you.
Reece’s job is so much more than showing you the homes he thinks you will love. He also listens when you need to talk through your wish list, shares his expertise and knowledge when you need an opinion, skillfully guides you through the right strategy for making an offer, and helps ensure the decision you make is one that will continue to make you happy for years to come.
Your best interests are his priority. He schedules as many home viewings as you need, negotiates terms that protect and prioritize you, and manages any challenges that may arise. While finding you a home and completing the real estate transaction is the goal, Reece values his relationship with you even more.
Added value
Property inspection cost included
Personal guidance through the closing process
Arrange HVAC consultation to check safety and provide options
REECE TO THE RESCUE
Move-in day is the most exciting moment in a real estate transaction. Signing the final documents is up there, but the real fun begins when you get the keys. So what happens when you arrive at your new home only to discover the seller hasn’t moved out?
This is Lily and Loretta’s closing day story, in their own words.*
*names have been changed for privacy, and story has been edited for length
Everything went smoothly with the sale of our home and the purchase of our new one. There weren’t any clues or signs that things were not going to go as planned. But then, there we found ourselves, standing at our new front door with a team ready to move us in — staring at the previous owner.
He wasn’t ready to leave. While all his stuff was packed up in the basement, it was clear we had a situation on our hands: We couldn’t move in until he moved all his stuff out first, but he was all alone with no one to help him.
So, there we stood, me, my sister, and six big, male friends who had volunteered their time to help us. We were all livid. We needed calmer heads to prevail, so we called Reece. He was the solution to the brewing storm.
Reece showed up and made the very realistic point that if we wanted to move in, we were better off to lend a hand to get this gentleman’s stuff out of the house. We all pitched in and started to help move his boxes out of the basement and put them on the lawn. The whole display started to create a disturbance, with neighbours complaining, traffic backing up and, with every passing hour, nerves fraying. Once again, Reece came to the rescue. He personally spoke to the neighbours to ease their frustration and promised to wrap it up within a couple of hours.
The trucks arrived in short order and were quickly filled with the previous homeowner’s things, but he still had more stuff in the basement. By this point in the day, my friends had places to be and families to see, so we called it a night, agreeing to reconvene and finish up the next day.
When the homeowner didn’t show up the next day to deal with all the remaining things, we called 1-800-Got-Junk to dispose of it. Again, Reece to the rescue: He paid to have all this stuff hauled away.
As it turned out, the guy was apparently sleeping in his car on someone’s driveway. The neighbours said he grew up in this house, his parents had passed away, and his sister had forced him to sell it. She wanted her share from the sale and, though he didn’t want to sell, he couldn’t afford to buy her out. I can’t imagine what that must have felt like, to be forced out of your childhood home after your parents had passed away. Devastating comes to mind… Ultimately though, while we felt badly for seeing him in this predicament, there was little we could do. We had already given up the keys to our previous house and had a truck full of boxes, waiting to be unloaded.
As I thought about it later, I realized I wouldn’t have known what to do if Reece hadn’t been there and so willing to help us out. While we were fuming at the situation, he remained calm and composed. While we were at a loss as to how to manage the move, Reece took action. If I hadn’t had him to work with on this real estate transaction, it could have gone very badly.
Buying a home is the single biggest financial transaction most of us will ever participate in, so it’s hard to look at situations like this objectively; it’s hard not to see a home, instead of a house. That’s why a realtor like Reece, with his relaxed demeanor and a sincere interest in the well-being of his clients, is invaluable.
