Mar 11, 2010

Major Milestone: First Time Home Buying

Things I've learned about buying a house:
1. Roofs are important. And expensive to fix. So don't buy a house with roof issues. Or mold. That shit is gross.
2. Location, Location, Location. They say it three times for a reason. Nobody wants a mansion if your neighbors are drinking 40s and training rottweilers on their front porch when you come home from work.
3. If your house has a cellar with meat hooks in it, I'm not buyin'. And apparently no one else is, either.
4. Big backyards are nice, but it really sucks when you can't think of anything to do in them after you've decided they're a fantastic selling feature.
5. Basements make great places for litterboxes. Y'all. We need a basement.
6. Attached/detached garages exist. And are baffling.
7. Respectable realtors won't let you look at a house if its on a corner lot and they know you plan to resell in 5 years. LIKE WON'T EVEN LET YOU LOOK.
8. Realtors are very busy people and develop immense patience, especially for people unfamiliar with the home-buying process who call them 15 times a day. God bless them.
9. No matter how big a house or backyard we find, we are not getting a dog. Period.

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