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If I could sum up our home buying experience in three words it would be exciting, scary & stressful. With that in mind I thought Id share a few posts on home buying for any of you first time buyers hoping to make the big move this year. Kicking off with three things I learned when searching for our first house.
Photographs lie - dont get excited until you see it in person
We learned this about 5 minutes after our first viewing, looking down at our rightmove app and then back up at the rather disappointing house we had just exited. Photographs can make rooms seem larger, brighter and hide unsightly features! Look at floorplans to get a more accurate picture, most online listings now include these and many have room sizes marked out. I spent many a sleepless night excited at the prospect of viewing our dream home, only to be disappointed by my preconceptions.
It works both ways though. If a house is a great location and at a good price, don’t dismiss it because the photographs dont do anything for you, like I said photographs can lie. Interestingly, the house we brought was one we hadnt seen any pictures of inside before we viewed it.
It really is all about location, location, location
I love that show, but once we were really in the midst of our search I struggled to watch it without feeling slightly depressed, watching all those people find houses! When buying your first home its easy to start looking online and think wow we can afford more than I thought and theres loads of choice. But on closer inspection they back onto railway tracks (not that there is anything wrong with that, but its not for us) or are completely the wrong side of town (practically in the next town). Unless you have an endless budget youll have to compromise somewhere but we quickly decided location wasnt one we could compromise on.
If youre unsure of a particular street or location, go back at different times of the day, on weekends and weekdays to get a feel for the place - its often good to do this before booking a viewing as you might instantly discount somewhere and save the time of viewing it.
The feeling does exist
Five months and countless houses in I really did start to think the house for us wasnt out there. Wed come close with a few, but I was always missing that yes, I can see us and our stuff here... feeling. Or when I was thinking it was a possibility the boyfriend wasnt. You can start to feel desperate and viewings turn from excitement into a chore, at this point I’d completely stopped watching L,L,L and any house buying shows as they were too stressful to watch!
But then one evening after work we had three viewings lined up and the first one we walked into was IT. We really did just know that was the house for us. Funnily enough the house we viewed after it that evening was actually bigger and closer to town, but that didnt matter as wed both finally found the feeling. It does exist.
I really hope that’s useful, or at least entertaining! If you have any questions let me know in the comments, Im no expert but happy to share our experience as it certainly wasnt plain sailing. Next up: top tips for after your offer is accepted.
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