Items To Consider When Looking For Your Home

What’s the best way for buyers to get organized to make home tours go quickly?

First, find a good Buyers real estate agent who will represent you as your agent, and help guide you through the home buying process.  A professional Realtor knows what is currently on the market and what the market value is. Your agent can provide you with detail home information faster than you can on your own.  After determining the price range you can afford by conferring with your Realtor and Mortgage Company, do some deep thinking about what your highest priorities are.  Number your priorities and choose the top five.  Examples would be: location year built, style, schools, public transportation, number of bedrooms and baths, lot size, square footage of home, location of washer & dryer, type of heating and cooling, garage size, septic or sewer, public water or well, security system, sprinkler system, hot tub, extra storage.  Kitchen priorities would be built in range, oven, microwave, garbage disposal, eating bar, space for dining table, room for your size of refrigerator. 

 Define first your physical housing requirements as kitchen, garage, yard, bedrooms, and baths. You are not only buying a home, but you are buying how you think you’ll feel in that home. Your emotional side will also need to fit in.  Does this home fulfill your family needs? Give you the independence, comfort, status, profit, self-fulfillment and privacy you are looking for.

Your needs are based on a lifestyle and the motivations that drive that lifestyle.  What is your lifestyle like?  What vehicles or special equipment would you need to accommodate?  What kind of hobbies or leisure activities do you participate in?  Once you understand your feelings, you can convert them into specific housing needs.  Get specific; make a checklist of things that are important to you.  Some items can be checked against multiple listing sheets, and the others can quickly be assessed on site.   As you are touring homes the location, price number of bedrooms, have to meet your needs.  Keep a list of your two or three top favorite homes, and throw the rest away.  It can get very confusing trying to remember over three homes, they all start running together.

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