Buying your “dream home” might put blinders in your eyes when you are preparing to commit to the purchase. Sometimes there are things that you may overlook that you might not think of at the time. They may not be deal breakers but it is nice to be informed of what you are getting yourself into. You want to know as much as you can about your potential new home and sometimes you might not have much time to do it. If you think of these things ahead of time you can make sure they are not going to affect your decision.
You are moving to a new neighborhood and perhaps even a new city. How you get to and from an office or job in traffic might skew your decision. Will a 5 mile trip turn into a 30 minute commute? If you are lucky you may not have to worry about that at all with all the work from home that is happening these days. You may also want to make sure that there are a range of options for internet service so that you are not looking at a low grade system that might need to support a home office as well as online school needs.
Most open houses are during the day and you may see a different type of neighborhood during the night. Make sure that you are driving through the neighborhood at different times to see if there are any glaring annoyances that you will have to deal with when you move in.
If you are buying a home that is part of a homeowners association make sure that you read through all the rules and regulations that are required to be followed. There may be rules against something that you are looking to add to your property. Also if you are thinking that perhaps in the future you may have to rent out your property they may have rules against that as well.
When you buy a house you may need to think about the future and whether or not a feature the home has doesn't necessarily bother you but may be a huge issue when you go to resell the property. Homes that don’t have enough bathrooms to accommodate the amount of people in the home is something that would take a lot to change if you could do it at all. Take into consideration that there are certain features that you can add but you can’t change where the property is or how large the lot is and it would take a considerable amount of work to change a floor plan of a home.
A home purchase is something that ties you to that home for many years so you need to think about the future and whether or not the home will be able to fit all your needs as you grow your family. While no one could have predicted the Covid-19 pandemic, sometimes you have to think about certain situations and how you and your home could weather the storm.
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