Sheila Rosier and Melissa Berube are working the take the “mystery out of the market” at the second annual NCWV Homeowners Fair Saturday at the LOFT Conference Center at University Town Centre.
Rosier said she and Berube deal with people daily, who are clueless about the housing market.
“Whether they are starting out as first-time home buyers, whether they are starting out with a tremendous amount of student loan debt or credit card debt, and when they start this process they start realizing they’re in no situation to do this,” she said.
Last year, Rosier and Berube worked with Huntington Bank and other companies to start educating people on how they can better position themselves to buy a home. This year, the seminars will be open to sellers.
Questions from home-buyers include those about home inspections, titles and title insurance. These are things Realtors are asked on a daily basis.
“It just seems like a good idea to be proactive and educate the consumer so that it makes the process less stressful for them,” Rosier said.
Berube and Rosier said they also see many people using sites like Zillow to get information about real estate. The homeowners fair will give people the opportunity to come face-to-face with Realtors and ask questions relevant to their own community.
“Real estate is obviously a national and global concept, but the real estate business is very, very local, so no matter where you are each local market is going to be very different,” Berube said.
The seminars will include discussions on debt, insurance, staging a home and buying one home while selling another simultaneously.
Berube will tackle that discussion, which Rosier said it will take a complicated topic and make it understandable.
Attorneys, lenders, inspectors and contractors will be available to speak with the public at no cost.
Gold sponsors for the homeowners fair include: Fairmont-Morgantown Housing Authority, Howard Hanna, Morgantown and Fairmont Board of Realtors, Huntington Bank, HeRo Home Inspections, Bowles Rice, Tri-State Exterminating and Vickie Jenkins.
