Getting pre-approved for your loan, knocking out your home chores and more ideas for making buying and selling a home pain-free

Joe Amon, The Denver Post

We talked to REALTORS®, loan originators and nonprofit home-buyer educators about the best strategies for people on both sides of the home sale transaction.

“I recommend my clients do everything humanly possible with their lenders,” REALTOR® Matt Leprino said. “I say don’t even go out in the car to look at houses before you do that.”

Even in a less competitive housing market, your dream home isn’t always sitting out there just waiting for you to waltz in the door. Be realistic about what you want and what you can live without. Local REALTOR® Justin Knoll recommends buyers employ an “80 percent rule.”

“If you can get 80 percent of what you want in a house, do the deal,” Knoll wrote in an email. “Buyers are not going to get 100 percent of what they want.”

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