What Services Do Home Investor Specialists
Offer?
Although the services offered by each specialist vary, each will
typically offer a range of services including one or more of the
following:
For sellers
- Fiduciary counsel on 1031 Exchange Services
- Coordinate with tenants
- Valuation of your existing home
- A report outlining improvements that can be made to improve the
value/salability of your home
- Execution of a marketing plan to sell your home
- Qualify prospective buyers
- Procure offers from prospective buyers and prepare formal offers
to purchase
- Attend the home inspection
- Assist with obtaining Title V certification
- Assist with obtaining a Fire Certificate
- Assist buyers in obtaining financing
- Attend the final walk through
- Coordinate the closing
- Facilitate Moving arrangements
- Assist with any unexpected problems that may arise
For Buyers
- Fiduciary Counsel on investment alternatives
- Identify / liaise with property management companies
- Review objectives and goals for investment choices
- Assist in the financing approval process
- Qualify affordability of properties
- Preview properties on the market to identify candidate homes
- Review all properties of interest
- Arrange to tour around selected properties
- Assist in the drafting of offers to purchase
- Present offers to the sellers
- Negotiate the offer
- Suggest appropriate professional services
- Attend home inspections
- Monitor all important dates of the agreement
- Attend the final walk-through
- Coordinate the closing
- Facilitate moving arrangements
- Advertise the property for rent
- Assist in locating suitable tenants
- Assist with any unexpected problems that may arise
How much does it cost to use the services of a
Home Investor Specialist?
Each Member Specialist is an independent professional and is free
to establish his/her own fees for services. We therefore recommend you
discuss and agree upon payment for the services you wish to have
performed BEFORE engaging the services of any Home Investor
Specialist.
In many cases, a Specialist can assist investors in locating and
making an offer to purchase an investment property in their role as a
sales agent if they are a licensed Realtor®. Whenever a Specialist is
working as an agent for the seller, they are required to provide
buyers (customers) with honest, unbiased, and fair treatment in their
search for a new home.
Does Home Investor get paid by Home Investor
Specialists?
No, membership to the
Association of Home Investor Specialists is free.
How do I find out who my local Home Investor
Specialist is?
When you complete the online request form, we will forward your
request to
local Specialist who should contact you directly. We request you complete this
confidential inquiry form so that we can be sure to provide you with
the most appropriate member for your needs.
What if you do not have a specialist in my
area, can you still help me?
Sometimes we can be of some assistance even if we don't have a
member in your area.
Can any real estate professional use the Home
Investor designation?
No, the Home Investor Specialist designation (IAHIS) is reserved for
active Member Professionals only.
The following are protected trademarks that can only be utilized by
current members of the Association.
- Home Investor Specialist
- Member, Association Of Home Investor Specialists
- HIS
- AHIS
- IAHIS
Who can join the National Association Of Home
Investor Specialist™ (AHIS™)?
Any real estate investor may become an Investor
Member for free. (You can still join even if you haven't yet made an
investment).
Professional Membership is reserved for
people working as Real Estate Professionals and for Professionals
providing services to Real Estate Investors.
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Home Investor Specialist is a Professional
Member of the Association of Home Investor Specialists and typically
a practicing real estate professional. Your local Home Investor
Specialist can provide a range of advice and services to you, whether
you are selling your property or buying a new one.
