Posted on 09/29/2014 8:39:21 PM PDT by Califreak
Our family just started looking for a home to purchase.
Just curious.... How long did it take you to find the perfect house?
Our lender took two years.
We are finding something wrong with all of them.
Had to build my own!
My theory is in order to have the “perfect” house you’re going to have to build three from scratch. Every house you build you’ll find some things you wished you had done differently. About the fourth house you will have worked out all the kinks.
“Had to build my own!”
Same here
had to grow my own trees to get the wood to build my own home. Im kidding. :)
Build it yourself.
We found a house that fit us rather quickly, but as time went on and our needs changed, we did lots of work on it. Maybe don’t look for perfect. Look for potential.
There is no perfect house, just one with flaws you can live with or fix.
My wife and looked at 40-50 houses, over a 6 month period, some we looked at twice. We considered EVERYTHING possible. It was still in the downturn after 9/11, so it was a total buyer’s market.
Our Real Estate agent later told us she had NEVER shown anyone so many houses. We didn’t realize until then how taxing we were. She was such a sweet-heart.
Having said that we love our home.
If looking at existing resale homes, you’re very unlikely to find the absolute perfect house. Agree upon your must-haves in order of importance, agree upon your like to haves in order of importance, zero in on the neighborhood(s) that you want to live in and do a combination of watching the listings and driving around those neighborhoods.
You’re going to want to change at least a few things in any existing house you could buy. Hopefully it’s all aesthetic like paint or light fixtures.
I know people who looked for over a year before one that worked for them well enough to make an offer came on the market.
Never did.
I had a starter home and then the large house.
They were absolutely terrific,but not perfect.
I’m now in a condo that I love-—also not perfect.
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Lender took two,year? Is that because of your qualifications? A loan can be funded in 3-4 weeks.
Perfect home? Depends on your definition.
We found our place in the country, the middle of the Orange growing belt in the Inland Empire of Southern California in 1987. We had been looking for only a few months, and stumbled across this place quite accidentally as it was in final stages of construction. A builder had intended to live in the house he built, but something happened, and changed his mind. We walked right in to a small bit of Heaven on Earth (other than the Coyotes), and just upgraded this year with the intent to live here until we croak.
We are both recently retired.
Does that help?
I’m afraid that’s going to be us!
LOL!
We are probably going to be our realtor’s biggest PITA ever!
He seems really affable and understanding though but we’ve only been at it for a month and a half.
no such thing as the ‘perfect home.
real estate is tough in california way way pricey.
Home is what and where you make it. it is about the love and the people. The things and the structure need to be functional not perfect. I have been equally at home renting a room and living in a house
I agree with that. I always say when the time is right, He will provide.
No.
When our lender was househunting, their family couldn’t settle on o e for two years.
...if only!
Got it
I always tell my clients I’m on their schedule. Had one stop and come back three years later and buy.
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