How many houses did you look at before you found "The One"?

[alice_61]

We looked at one house in Chapel Hill, which I found on realtor.com. It was the only house in a relatively safe neighborhood that we could afford. My husband drove 9 hours to see it, made an offer, and we are closing on it next month. (In the interim, I have only ~2-3 houses in the same price range and they weren't nearly as well located.)

[bta]

My wife and I started looking in Aug 06. We started by driving through communities and visiting some sales centers for tours. Then we put our townhouse in Northern VA up for sale in Sept and waited. Then we waited some more. During this time we'd come down and tour some homes with a Realtor to get a better feel for the market. Until finally - just after Christmas - we got a contract on our house.

Then things kicked into high gear. When we'd finally resigned ourselves to renting in the triangle while continuing our home search - we found the home we wanted. It was just by chance that we were in the sales center and the agent mentioned one of the builders was reducing the price into our price range. We went right over and toured the home in the dark (no electricity yet). We liked it enough to come back early the next morning - and what do you know - we liked it even more in the light.

The home is almost done now and we'll be moving in later this month. In total - I think we toured 20-25 homes before finding the one we wanted.

[Grass Is Greener]

I looked at a total of 50 properties but only 20 of them in person. Usually after I walk in, it doesn't take more than a minute to know if the house is not what I am looking for and I usually don't stay more than a couple of minutes in it. I walk in, tell my realtor "Mmmm, no", and we leave LOL.

[cncsmomndad]

We walked through about 18 houses I'd say. We put an offer on a house we fell in love with on our first trip out here but another offer had been put in 12 hours before. We lost that house even though we were the higher bidder because we wanted a contingency to sell our CA houses first. Ended up we sold all 3 in 45 days which was a huge bummer. Oh well. We put in another offer on one which fell through due to issues on the home inspection and then finally this one. We thought about building, but I really didn't want to got through the building process again. The house we are in is by the same builder we thought about, but in a different neighborhood. This house is working out great for us and we love the neighborhood.