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Once again, I've fallen for the first home that I've seen. Though I must say that I've been looking at homes online for several months. This one (a fixer) actually moved me to action.
How many of you are the same way? or do you have to see a bevy of homes to find "the one"?
Once again, I've fallen for the first home that I've seen.
Does this mean that you have a pretty well developed sense of the broad stroke characteristics that you like?
It probably comes up in other areas of your life as well(romance?)
...and it can probably be effective when evaluating the less than ideal for best compromise too.
OTOH, if it means you alight on one superficial feature or another... it's not so good.
A bevy. In NJ we looked all over the NYC metro area before finding a house. We saw over 70 via 4-5 different realtors (we looked in 5 different counties). In the 70 homes my husband would like one and I'd hate it, or vice versa. Or we'd like a house but not the location. Or we'd love the location but the house was wrong. Or we'd love the location and home but the schools were poorly rated. We finally visited a town we had not looked at, based on the recommendation of one of my husband's co-workers. A realtor took us to three homes that night and the third one was it. We both walked in and gave each other "the look" - we both knew instantly it was meant to be our house.
Here in SC we looked at about a dozen before deciding on the house we currently live in.
Oh, I'm the love at first sight type...
But, I'm still not easy. I play a little hard to get. The house has to sweet talk me, flatter me, make me promises before I give it my heart.
I have very broad tastes with what I find appealing in a home...I'm not super picky about single story or two story, pretty much my "loves" are an open floorplan and a rear door opening into a mudroom/bathroom. Everything else I'm flexible on....
We are currently building a little modular. Its smaller then I wanted and not "precisely" what I had in mind when I started my search (was wanting a 2 story farmhouse with a porch) but when I saw it on the lot I fell in LOVE. My husband resisted initially but once he walked through he loved it as well.
Its a single story, open floor plan and only 1450 square feet, 3 bedroom, rear door walks into the laundry/mud room, bathroom off of that and the kitchen...its perfect and was set on the foundation December 1.
I fell in love and am in love with my house I bought recently. It was the backyard and privacy I have that made me fall in love. The house itself needs updating and work on it, but the yard is perfect and I am often out there admiring it.
But it is always homes WELL beyond my price range that give me that WOW factor
So I guess it is a moot point
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