Send Me Home
Send Me Home
Yes, there really are home finders. These professionals help home seekers find the home they want. It’s not easy finding a home when you are ready to buy. There are so many different realtors, so many different things to consider. You would also activate the utilities, schedule a meeting with the school(s), find doctors, get a cleaning company in before their items are moved in, hire movers, and stock shelves with food, toilet paper, and other necessities.
Relocating to new areas can be quite traumatic for most people, especially for families with children. Offering a service to help alleviate the common necessary steps for a smooth move would be quite attractive to most people that have the money to pay for your helpful services, they wouldn’t bat an eye at paying you to help them out and make their move easier.
Interview each customer and find out what type of home the family plans to buy, or lease. Get as many details as possible. Find out every detail that you can before you set out to find them a home. While you start looking for homes take detailed notes and pictures of each home you think they may want for themselves. Include maps with each property also, so that they can see how long their commutes would be for work and show all other important places like schools, libraries, grocery stores, and such.
Once your client acquires a chosen property, you would then take care of all the necessary tasks to follow. These necessary tasks would be such as; activate the utilities, schedule a meeting with the school(s), find doctors, get a cleaning company in before their items are moved in, hire movers, gardeners, and stock basic food items, toilet paper, light bulbs and any other necessities. If there are any structural or landscaping changes they want to make to their new home before they move in, you could oversee and handle these for them too. Of course, this would add to your fee.
This is a service you might want to offer through various realty companies in your area. If they can hook you up with clients, you could offer them a percentage of your fees in exchange. This is something that you could negotiate with each company and make sure that you have any agreements in writing, signed, and agreed upon before doing business with them. This is a protection for you and them.
Make sure that you treat your customers well and add a few extras that aren’t necessary but memorable. Include a large bouquet of flowers in their new home near the entrance, welcoming the family to their new home and thanking them for their business. Leave a folder, or gift box, with enclosed maps of the area and information about all of the local town history and areas of interest they may want to visit. Be sure to leave your business information also, just in case they move again or have contacts that would like to hire you for your services in the future.
Resources:
http://www.sba.gov/smallbusinessplanner/index.html
http://homefindersservices.com/
http://www.arp-relocation.com/
http://www.atlasvanlines.ca/
