Tips For Finding A Home You Love From Mark Spain Real Estate

By Mark Spain Real Estate

As stressful as the experience of finding a home you love can be, it can also be one of the most exciting! Our clients at Mark Spain Real Estate deserve to love the place they choose to call home, and our team is ready to start the process with you.

Mark Spain Real Estate has proudly served more than 33,000 satisfied clients and earned over 6,000 5-star reviews in 2022. Therefore, we are more than ready to make your buying experience a quick and stress-free one. 

One of our core values is to continuously grow and learn so that we can best serve clients like you. Mark Spain Real Estate has compiled a few tips to keep in mind when you begin the process of finding a home you love. Continue reading to learn more!

Tips For Finding A Home You Love

Create a Check-List of Priorities

The more boxes a house can check off when finding a home you love, the more likely you are to keep this property at the top of your wish list. Jot down the features of a home that are a necessity to have, and then create a second list of features that would be a nice addition. 

Use this master list as you compare homes in your ideal community. Some features in your list of priorities may include a walk-in closet, a room for an at-home office, or something as simple as a basement. Features on your “nice-to-have” list may include installations like a pool or a fenced-in yard.

Plan For Your Future

When looking for a home, you must look many years down the road and try to picture this property aligning with your long-term goals. For instance, if you are younger and plan to get married and have children within the next few years, make sure a home can accommodate such a lifestyle. If you are older, is this a place where you could stay until retirement?

If you plan to start a family, your house will need to have an extra bedroom or two until the time comes. In today’s circumstances, you may want to consider purchasing a home that has an extra room that could be turned into a home office to work remotely.

If possible, you should try to live in your next home for at least five to seven years so that you can pay down the mortgage and build equity.

Keep Location In Mind

Buying a home does not stop at just the home – you also indirectly are buying the surrounding community and what it has to offer you and your family. When you find a house that piques your interest, drive around the area and check out what kind of houses are around it and the people who inhabit them. Are there families going on walks and kids on bikes? Or is the area quiet?

Also, look to see how far you are from the retailers and services that are important to you. For example, how far away is the nearest grocery store? Are you close to a notable primary care physician for when you or a loved one is sick? Is there a nice park nearby to get some fresh air and exercise?

Stay Open-Minded

While keeping all these previous tips in mind, it is important to have an open mind while house-hunting because it is not often that a home will check off every aspect you could wish for. 

Note the features of homes that you do not like and see how they compare to those of other homes. Also, assess if they are features that can be fixed, and if they can, estimate how much such repairs or improvements would cost you in the long run.

Focus on finding well-built homes that could fit your ideal lifestyle in pleasant communities!

Work With Mark Spain Real Estate – The #1 Team In The Industry

To get the most out of the house-hunting experience, choose to work with a brokerage that will put your needs at the top of their list. Mark Spain Real Estate is a full-service brokerage made up of local, experienced, and highly trained agents who provide personalized service to each and every client.

Throughout the years we have grown extensively to serve more families and communities than we ever thought possible. We strive to remain the most knowledgeable in the industry to better serve our clients in reaching their residential real estate goals! Visit our website to get started! https://markspain.com/

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