Expert Guidance Tailored to Your Home Buying Journey
Tailored Buyer Consultations
Baylen Trafton provides personalized consultations to fully understand your goals and preferences. Whether you’re purchasing your first home or expanding your portfolio, expect expert advice customized to your needs.
Extensive Property Selection
Access a curated selection of properties across Fresno, Clovis, and surrounding areas. We help you navigate listings to find homes that fit your lifestyle, budget, and long-term plans.
Comprehensive Support From Start to Close
Let Us Help You Navigate Your Home Buying Journey
Expert Guidance Tailored to Your Home Search
Reach out to Baylen Trafton and the Trafton Home Team for personalized support, market expertise, and listings that match your unique needs.
Plan Your Home Buying Strategy with Us
Schedule a detailed consultation to explore your options and benefit from over 9 years of local market knowledge and financial insight.
Where to start
Most buyers do these three things in the first week. None of them commit you to anything.
A lender confirms your price range and payment. Sellers expect it with every offer, and some ask for it before a showing.
Ask us for a lenderA buyer consultation covers what you want, where, and how the process runs from here.
Book a consultationWe set up your search on this site so new listings that fit reach your phone the day they hit the market.
Search homesFrom pre-approval to keys
The fourteen steps of buying a home here, in order. We handle the calls, the paperwork and the deadlines at each one.
Get ready
Before you tour
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Choose your agent
Pick someone with the local knowledge and the time to make the deal go smoothly.
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Get pre-approved
Know your price range and monthly payment before you fall for a house.
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Buyer consultation
We go over your goals and your wish list, and how the steps below will run.
Find the home
Searching and touring
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Start your search
New listings that match go straight to your phone.
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Tour homes
Favorite the ones you like and we book the showings, grouping several into one trip when we can.
Make it yours
Offer to accepted
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Write the offer
We call the listing agent first to learn what the seller cares about. Price is only one of the terms that wins.
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Negotiate
Whether the seller accepts, counters or says no, we work out terms you can live with.
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Offer accepted
Your earnest money deposit is usually due within three days, and we order the inspections you want.
Close
Escrow to keys
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Inspections
General home and termite, plus pool, roof, septic, well or a sewer scope when the house calls for it.
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Resolve issues
We negotiate repairs or credits for what the inspections turn up.
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Appraisal
If it comes in under the price, we renegotiate or you cover the difference. You decide.
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Prepare to close
Utilities, funds and loan signing get scheduled, and you do a final walkthrough, usually within five days of closing.
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Close of escrow
The sale records and the home is yours.
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Get the keys
Usually 5pm on closing day, unless the seller is renting back for an agreed stretch.
Questions to ask about any Valley home
These come up on homes in Fresno, Clovis and the foothills more than buyers expect. We check them before you write an offer.
- Is there a Mello-Roos or HOA?
- Many newer Clovis and north Fresno neighborhoods carry a special tax or HOA dues on top of property tax. Both change your monthly payment.
- Are the solar panels owned or leased?
- Owned panels come with the house. A lease or a loan on the panels has to be transferred to you or paid off.
- Well and septic, or city services?
- Common on larger lots and in the foothills. Plan for well and septic inspections in your contingency period.
- How old is the roof, and the AC?
- Valley summers are hard on both. Their age tells you what you may be replacing in the next few years.
Who you'll work with
Book a buyer consultation
A free sit-down, in person or by phone. You leave with a search set up and a plan for your price range.
Trafton Home Team, brokered by Real (DRE #02022092). Baylen Trafton, DRE #02026482.