Buying your own house is a very exciting time, whether it’s your first property purchase or you’re moving to a bigger house or apartment. However, both first-time and experienced home buyers are not immune to making the same property buying mistakes. Want to know how to make sure you take the right decision? Check out our tips for house shoppers!
Find your deal breakers
A deal breaker is a feature that can make you take the offer immediately or refuse it without hesitation. Buyers with large families often view a big kitchen or a garden as their dealbreaker, while young bachelors are looking for houses with swimming pools and BBQ areas. Deciding on the essential features you want to see in the house can help you narrow down your choices or even find the ideal home sooner than you hoped.
Look beyond the renovations
Many homeowners prefer to do a quick renovation before selling their property to make the house or apartment more presentable and to be able to charge more for it. However, a quick renovation usually doesn’t include any major repair jobs, which is why you need to thoroughly inspect the home for wall cracks, leaking roof, sagging ceiling, and other major defects that can cost a fortune to repair if you decide to buy the property.
Check the conveniences
You definitely expect your new home to have all the conveniences like electricity, hot and cold running water, and others. But it can turn out that the condition of those conveniences is so poor that you either risk not being able to use them, or even damage the home in case the water pipes break down or there is a short circuit in the electricity line. Checking these features on your own can be tricky, so it’s better to take a professional repairman with you.
Don’t get too attached
Many home buyers make the same mistake: they fail to view the house simply as a building that requires inspection, and start immediately imagining themselves and their families spending time together in their new home. In this case you as a buyer get too attached to the property, so it makes it harder to let go in case you find major faults within the house or if someone buys it before you. Try to stay impartial at least for the first one or two viewings of the same property.