It is normal to harbor fears about making the wrong decision when you’re looking at homes to buy. Many first-time home buyers wonder how they will know when they have found the right house.
Here are 3 preliminary things you should know about finding the right house:
- First, an ethical real estate agent will never, ever, pressure into buying a house.
- Second, you will instinctively know it in your gut.
- Third, you may want to sleep on the decision. Don’t.
If You Have Found the Right House, Can You Sleep On It?
Right now, you might be wondering how you will know that you have found the right house if you don’t sleep on it. What’s wrong with sleeping on it? Everything is wrong with sleeping on it. Trust yourself. Don’t second guess your instincts. Your instincts will not steer you in the wrong direction.
Have you heard the phrase: shuffle your feet, lose your seat?
You’re not the only home buyer looking for a house to buy with your specific criteria.
Somebody else could buy your house out from under you while you’re counting sheep. You might not know it, but there are other home buyers with similar intentions looking at homes today in the very neighborhoods where you want to buy.
The last thing you want to hear your buyer’s agent say is another buyer made an offer, and it was accepted minutes before your offer was submitted. Happens all the time, too. Unless you’re buying a brand new home, there is not another home around the corner just like the home that now you can’t buy. When you find that house, buy it.
10 Ways to Know You’ve Found the Right House
1) You Want to Go Inside the House
Part of the excitement of looking at homes is not knowing which could be your new home when you pull up to the curb. Is it the one on the left, or does the house on the right strike your fancy? If it is the house on the right, and you like it better than the house on the left, that could be a sign. It means there is something about this house that appeals to you. Curb appeal is talking.
2) The House Embraces You the Moment You Enter
Within three seconds of entering the house…
By Elizabeth Weintraub | TheBalance.com
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