How do we compete for a house from 1,500 miles away?
Answered by Chris Deutsch, Founder & Editor
Licensed Minnesota Realtor #20382264 ·
The short answer
Preparation beats proximity. The remote buyers who win set everything up before the right house appears: a fully underwritten pre-approval, not the ten-minute online kind. A lender who answers on weekends. And decision rules agreed in advance — your ceiling, your dealbreakers, what you'd consider waiving and what you never would. When the house shows up, you're deciding, not scrambling.
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The longer answer
Then speed becomes my job. Same-day video walkthroughs where I show you the bad along with the good — the neighbor's yard, the street noise, the age of the furnace. An offer written that night when it's right. Sellers care less about where a buyer lives than whether the offer is clean, certain, and on time.
Distance loses houses for unprepared buyers. It doesn't have to lose any for you. DM me RELOCATE, or just call.
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