I bought my first house with the assistance of Ed & Patty Hru at Roo Realty. Full disclosure, he was my high school wrestling coach, so I was already familiar with him. I bought my house during the peak of the housing boom, in late 2006. He talked me out of an ARM mortgage, and was adamant that I needed to be in a fixed rate loan because the payments would not balloon and leave me in a bad place. He took a lot of time showing me many different properties, and I never felt pressured to act quickly. There were actually a few properties that I liked, and he encouraged me not to buy them for various sensible reasons. They took care of everything, showing the properties, getting them inspected, appraised, and also assisted me all the way through finding a mortgage lender, utilizing Orange Co's first time home buyer assistance, all the way through closing. Ed has been in the RE game for a long time (Over 30 years at this point), and is really an expert at this. I'm now looking at my second house, and he is always willing to look at stuff for me and offer his opinion. I can't speak highly enough of Ed, Patty, and the team at Roo Realty. You can't go wrong with them, and they will take good care of you whether you are buying a $150k house, or $1.5M.
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