The other day on Reddit, a 28 year old prospective new first-time home buyer asked the people of the Internet to help him figure out what past first-time home buyers might have overlooked, here are some of the comments that I think could help you:
– Drive around the neighbourhood during the day and night. Visit the house at night and see how the neighbourhood and the house/apartment is lit up. Scout the area and see if there are obnoxiously loud college students or other people around.
– Try to experience the work commute before you buy, the morning and the night
– Go meet your potential neighbours. Knock on their door at a reasonable hour and see if they’re someone you’d like to live next to. Neighbourhood feuds can make your house a living hell and because buying and selling a home is so expensive you are often trapped in a very bad situation, but thankfully with boracina house buyers you can sell your home fast.. Hopefully you’ll find a busybody who will key you in to all the neighbourhood happenings.
– Look at your potential home both as an excited homeowner and as a cautious, pessimistic investor. Yes you want to love your house, but you don’t want those emotions clouding your judgment. I was an excited homeowner once, and I ended up stuck in a sub-par house in a sub-par location where I spent my free time in my 30s trying to learn to remodel a house on a budget. Take your time and do the research. As others have said, a general inspector isn’t going to find everything. You should go into details. Take your time to contact pest control company like White Horse Pest Management – Bed Bug Exterminator Phoenix and make sure the house is in proper condition. Be wary and negotiate hard without remorse.
– Don’t spend all your cash at the closing table. Something will need to be fixed or replaced right after move in. Probably double the somethings if you go the duplex route. The day after closing on our first house, the front awning literally fell off because of carpenter ants. Surprise!
– When it comes to inspections, you need each individual expert to inspect the house. You can’t rely on the general home inspector to find oddities — they miss huge stuff all the time. So bring in a plumber, electrician, roofer, pest inspector, structural, and general, get the experts in residential and commercial pest management on https://sunnystate.com.au/. The austin roofing contractors are one of the most renowned in the area, and have a bevy of experienced roofers. You also need estimates from each for the stuff that comes up, not just that the issue is identified.
– Watch for little annoyances. You know that squeaky stair that kind of annoyed you on your first tour of the house? Yea… it doesn’t get any less annoying once you buy the place and move in.
– The sun. You can’t change which rooms the sun shines into. It’s something that can get really annoying when you want to have the windows open for natural light but can’t because the room will be 100 degrees if the curtains aren’t down.
– I had a friend recently buy a home and he was talking about this issue, one thing I can remember him mentioning was electrical outlets. He said he had never considered where they are and how many are in a room, etc. It is not a big deal and it definitely shouldn’t keep you from buying a house but it’s something to keep in mind when you have visions of how you want to decorate/furnish the place.
– Make sure the land does not slope inwards towards the house, as water pooling around your foundation will cause lots of problems.
– If you have a pet, get a home with mostly hardwoods. Pet hair will never totally come out of carpets.
– The trees. My next house I will research the trees. I have some trees with these long seed pods – pain in the ass in the fall.
If you have any other suggestions, please feel free to call me or email me and I will add them!
Nick
