You’re making progress! Now you have a list of houses that you can start paring down to a short list of houses that you will personally inspect. This is where an experienced agent becomes especially handy. Read more
Archive for October 31, 2011
Narrowing Down Your Home Shopping List
Developing and Working with a Home Shopping List (4)
Newer homes and styles may require living farther from downtown. What type of floor plan do you envision most compatible with your lifestyle? That can influence home style and location. How important is proximity to shopping, houses of worship, recreational facilities, parks, and so on? After you’ve circled the areas of interest, work up a checklist of what you want in a home. Read more
Developing and Working with a Home Shopping List (3)
Many first-time home buyers think about the homes they grew up in as a template for their own home. This is good; use those memories along with what you like and don’t like about friends’ or relatives’ homes to get you started on your checklist. Read more
Developing and Working with a Home Shopping List (2)
Their house hunting efforts were fast turning into a shipwreck This deadlock resulted because Randy and Jennifer never sat down and worked out their priorities—the important things they both wanted in a home, in the order of their importance. They just started looking at homes, assuming that everything would fall into place—that their tastes and dreams would mesh into a cute cottage with a white picket fence. Read more
Developing and Working with a Home Shopping List
With a preapproval letter in your hand and your Realtor ready to go, your next mission, if you choose to accept it, is to develop a shopping checklist to help narrow your list of potential homes. Read more