This post should take three minutes to five minutes from start to finish. This post focuses on sharing our experience (my experience and Jacob's experience) when we've considered some things prior to making the commitment of buying our current house. After sharing our experience with you, let me share with you some questions for you to ask yourself either as you read this post or in your own time.
If I remember correctly, it has taken several months when Jacob and I went house hunting while we were still living in our apartment (less than 1,000 square footage, two bedrooms, and one bathroom) back in 2021. We mostly did house hunting online. We knew that we wanted to move into a house that's bigger than 1.000 square footage and hoping the cost of paying house mortgage monthly is cheaper than paying month to month rental property.
We've considered the hidden costs that can be involved with when to buy a house. We've thought about the travel time to commit of driving to get to places where we go to (such as Jacob's work, church, groceries stores, medical appointments, church, and more places). We've considered about it's a good idea of having neighbours. Although we definitely know that our next house, we prefer to be living not so close to neighbours in the future.
We've checked out two houses. One house that Jacob and I've looked at, we really liked it and knew straight away that we would've make several major changes to it but the cost of the house is outside of our price range for how much we were willing to spend on. Then we've looked at a different house, we really like it and that house was in our price range of how much we were willing to spend on.
Jacob and I do care about the current condition of the house (indoors and outdoors) prior to buying. Jacob and I do care about the current condition of the roofing for the house and the shed prior to buying. Jacob and I do care about the age of the house. We seemed to get a great deal because the previous house owners with their house insurance was able to get brand new condition the main house roof prior to closing the house to us.
Jacob and I do care about the number of bedrooms that the house have. Jacob and I do care about we would be pre approved for the house mortgage loan. Jacob and I do care the location of the house and surroundings. Jacob and I do care about the number of bathrooms does that the house have. We ended up spending approximately of $15,000 US dollars/less than $22,000 Australian dollars towards the appliances to have installed in the house and also including the cost of renovations.
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"Buying a house won't bring you happiness, but turning it into a home certainly will." |
Ask the following questions;
Is the house in my price range of what I would be willing to spend? Do I see yourself or/and other people who I currently live with to move into that house? Am I aware of the current condition of the roofing of the house?
Am I aware of the current condition of the house? Am I aware of knowing the age of the house? Am I aware of the location where the house is located and its surroundings? Has the mortgage that I’ve applied for has been pre approved for the house/s that I've looked at?
Can I afford of paying month to month house mortgage along with other bills of living? Will I be doing any renovations or some projects here and there to the house? Do I know how many bedrooms does the house have?
Do I know how many bathrooms does the house have? Does the house come with a spare key? Does the house comes with somewhere where to park the vehicle/vehicles? Does the house comes with a swimming pool? Does the house comes with a pond?
Am I aware the cost of maintaining the swimming pool if the house have a swimming pool? Am I aware how many acres does the house comes with? Do I know my credit score?
I thought about some other questions but I would like you to do your best to think about and ask yourself the different questions.
Stay Tuned.
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