Relocating to Boulder City

Relocating to Boulder City is the move for someone who wants to be near Las Vegas and nothing like it. Boulder City is a small town about half an hour from the rest of the valley, out by Lake Mead and Hoover Dam, built in the 1930s to house the dam workers, with a historic downtown that still feels like that era in a good way. Gaming is not allowed, and it is one of the only cities in Nevada without casinos. The town controls its own growth and has limited new residential construction for decades by ordinance, which is why it still feels like a small town when so much of the valley has filled in.

The people who move here from out of state are usually retirees who want a small town with Nevada's taxes and weather, and people who found the town on a visit to the dam or the lake and could not stop thinking about it. What they need to understand before they come is the inventory: at any given time only a handful of homes are for sale, the housing is mostly older, and the kind of house you want may not appear for months. It is not for everyone. For the right person nothing else near this valley comes close.

The first conversation is by phone: why Boulder City, when you are moving, what the house has to do, whether you are selling something first, and what you are hoping to spend. Talk to a lender early if you are financing; a pre-approval is not required to start with me, but here I recommend it more strongly than anywhere, because when the right house appears you will not have time to arrange one. Many relocating retirees buy with cash or a small loan, and for them the plan is about the number, the repair allowance and the timing of the sale back home.

Then the wait, made honest: what is on the market now and how often houses like the one you want have come up. The 3D walkthroughs and photos of each new listing get reviewed the day it goes live, and if one fits, we move. When you visit, spend a weekday in the historic downtown, drive out to the lake, and drive the half hour into Henderson at 5pm, because that drive is the point for some people and the cost for others. Before or during the first showing we sign a buyer representation agreement, so you know in writing who I work for and how I am paid, which is negotiated and never fixed. The offer, the due diligence period, the appraisal and closing are here, and signing with a mobile notary is normal in Nevada if you cannot be here.