Property Searching Tips
Trying to find the right house is just like a full time job, except you don’t have to avoid Donna in the tea room because you honestly cannot handle one more story about her cat’s antics.
And there’s no free cake. Unless you want to bring cake to inspections, which is highly advisable to keep up energy and morale and intimidate fellow house-hunters with such a confident power move.
Spending so many hours on a weekend going to house inspections doesn’t leave a lot of time for other important tasks like laundry, sleeping, and smashing the week’s avocados. How are young people meant to make time to find the perfect first home when we have so many brunches to eat and lattes to drink?
House hunting takes sacrifice, and sometimes that sacrifice means putting off watching the latest Game of Thrones till tomorrow. It’s a hard life.
There’s so many questions you need to answer when house hunting.
Do we need a large block? Can we live without a barbecue pit? How much can we honestly afford? And is it socially acceptable to use the bathroom in the open house?
You’ll want to use an online home loan calculator and consider how much you can afford to borrow, and maybe just consider a small barbecue out the back. I mean, I guess, if you don’t respect yourself.
Data shows that around 70% of recent buyers took between one and twelve months to buy a property.
A lot can change in a year! You can fall in love, get promoted, start liking olives, rocket cars might be invented. Note to self: make sure property has secure garage suitable for rocket car or cars.
You will want to make a checklist of all the basics to make your inspections more efficient.
Don’t get too ahead of yourself, sometimes a house is like a Tinder date. Stunning in the photos, a charming description that’s too good to be true. In person? A definite renovator’s dream. You should have listened to your mum when she told you not to believe anything you read on the internet.
Make sure you’re clear on what your non-negotiables are, whether that be a bath, a walk in robe or a grandiose chandelier. Gone are the days you will settle for a share house where the roof doesn’t leak and the rodent problem is under control, you’re a potential first home buyer now!
Now, grumpy old people who write letters to the editor aren’t really right about much, but they are right about needing to be open to compromise on location to suit your budget. My heart says a suspended palace in Cloud City, but my bank balance says the barely inhabitable deserts of Tatooine. But we’ve all got to start somewhere. I mean, Luke Skywalker started out in some dodgy desert hut and now he lives on top of a lush mountain. Inspirational.
Once you know with certainty what you want (rocket car garage) you’ll be more focused on putting the time in to find the right one, the dream first home, no matter how tedious the process and how many hours of Korean drama marathons on Netflix are sacrificed.
Source: realestate.com.au