Looking for Your First House or Reality Bites.
April 4th, 2008 categories: Buying Real Estate
YESS you’ve gotten approved for a loan!!! Now begins the fun process of finding your first house. You make a list and check twice. You have two typewritten, single spaced, pages of all the amenities you want in your first home. The big day arrives. You and your Realtor go look at the first property in your price range. What the @#$%. This doesn’t look like the home of your dreams. It ain’t even close. Stop right there. Go back to your list. Yes reality bites and it just bit you on the backside. You are probably not going to find everything you had in mom and dad’s house, in your first house. Now whittle down that list. Cross of the slate floors, granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances. You might pare down the square footage (inside and out) while you’re at it. Ok, now that you have a list that is a manageable size and based in reality, WORK IT BABY. Get the most bang for your buck. Now that’s how you go looking for your first house.
Of course you could always go ask Daddy for a little extra money rather than cut back…