Buying Your First Home

[JWKobayashi]

For those of you that have owned a home, the frist time is scary, isn't it?

A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I went to a bank to get pre-approved for a mortgage.  We ended up being in a much better position than we anticipated, and contacted a relator the next day.  

The day after that, we went out looking at homes with said relator and found a couple that we liked.  We decided on one and two days later signed paperwork with the builder (it's a new home).

It's funny how fast things move.  Friday we were thinking that we'd have to wait to buy a house, and then Tuesday we're committing to buying one that we thought would be out of our price range.

Today we went to the bank to finalize the mortgage paperwork and details.  It almost feels like I'm signing away my paycheck for the next 30 years (which I guess essentially I am).  We close next month.

Anyway, it's an exhilirating experience in life.  At least now I have some room for that room of doom.

[Tynstar]

I have had two houses built know. It is fun and a pain all at the same time. It seems to be built so fast then it seems like they are doing nothing when all the work can't be seen from the street. Doing the paper work for a mortgage makes me want to get a stamp with my sig on it. The amount of times you have to sign your name is crazy.

[Mezmoron]

Seriously...

My fiance and I bought our first home in December last year.  We decided to start looking around on November 15th, we found one we liked, next thing we knew, we moved in on December 8th.  

It all happened so fast.

Ken

[Sauza12]

My girfriend and I are doing the same.  We have been preapproved already and we are now looking at houses.  Our agent gave us a list of about 100 house for us to look at and we are about 75% of the way through that.  We saw one house that is absolutley gorgeous, but it is being sold as is.  Just walking around the outside of the house, I saw 3 major things wrong with it (significant water damage in the breezeway, a pothole in the porch, a screen door that looks like it was ripped open), but I still want to see the inside of the house.  If those are the only things wrong with it, I might buy it anyways.

This is an exciting time, but it's also a little overwhelming and a bit scary.

[Mezmoron]

Don't forget to ask the roof and furnace age.

Ken

[JWKobayashi]

Don't forget to ask the roof and furnace age.

Ken

That is the exact reason I wanted to buy a new home.  I don't want to move in and have to buy a new roof in 6 months.

[captain_nintendo]

If you have a home built, dont skimp on thing! Make sure you buy the options if you can afford it.

[Sauza12]

The good thing about living in a state with such a shitty economy is that it is absolutly a buyers market.  I've seen some houses that have been on the market for over a year.  I can make whatever twisted demands that I want and the sellers have to seriously consider it.  So if I do find a house with a bad roof, I can always force the seller into knocking that price off of the total for the house.

[wrldstrman]

Take a elders word on this one find out who the neighbors are if you going to be living close to anyone..When i bought my house it was in a area with middle age people whos kids were graudating or had just left the homes.my kids were babies and Ill I ve heard the last 15 years is griping about my kids did this my kids did that,griping about our dog.all these people are retired now and spend 10 hrs a day pimping their lawns washing there cars etc.We keep our dog in the house and only let him out to go to the bathroom but no matter what time we let him out it seems they just have to come outside as soon as we let the dog out and he goes crazy..because there grandkids had teased him.and 3 days ago a man that lives up the road a bit shot and killed his 2 neighbors and shot there son over the drive way...I could go on but  I think this is one area that people overlook when buying a house...you could get a great deal but if you have to live by a bunch of sourpuss es the deal wasnt so great.

[Sauza12]

Take a elders word on this one find out who the neighbors are if you going to be living close to anyone..When i bought my house it was in a area with middle age people whos kids were graudating or had just left the homes.my kids were babies and Ill I ve heard the last 15 years is griping about my kids did this my kids did that,griping about our dog.all these people are retired now and spend 10 hrs a day pimping their lawns washing there cars etc.We keep our dog in the house and only let him out to go to the bathroom but no matter what time we let him out it seems they just have to come outside as soon as we let the dog out and he goes crazy..because there grandkids had teased him.and 3 days ago a man that lives up the road a bit shot and killed his 2 neighbors and shot there son over the drive way...I could go on but  I think this is one area that people overlook when buying a house...you could get a great deal but if you have to live by a bunch of sourpuss es the deal wasnt so great.

Thia is why my girlfriend and I have been looking during the weekends.  You get a better feel of who lives in the neighborhood on the weekend because there are actually people out.

We've passed over a few beutiful houses because of the people in the area.

[Sauza12]

UPDATE!!!

We got our house!  We were at our real estate agents office until 9:00 PM last night and they sellers accepted the offer we made on our house!

We will be having a private inspection done tomorrow morning, and assuming they don't find any major problems, we'll be moving into the house in 30 days.  Good times!

Once we're moved in I'll post pictures.

[Tynstar]

Congrats man!

[Sauza12]

Thank you!  The work begins....

[Tynstar]

Thank you!  The work begins....

You mean the work will never end......

[wrldstrman]

You mean the work will never end......

amen      



congrats on your house.