When my husband and I purchased our first home, it was all about price. We needed something we could afford. The house we bought wasn’t in a great neighborhood and it was small enough to clean by spinning around a couple of times, but I loved it because it was ours.
By the time we purchased the house we are currently moving out of, we were in a different position. We had enough money to be choosy. It isn’t huge, but the house we ended up buying is custom-built and has loads of neat architectural details.
When my husband accepted a job out of state a couple of months ago, I wasn’t worried about selling our current house, but knew that buying a home was going to be tricky. And boy was it. A property would barely hit the market before someone else snatched it up.
Here are four things I learned about buying a house in a scorching-hot market.
1. It’s about head over heart
I purchased our last home using my heart. There were so many houses on the market that I could reject a home because I didn’t like the slope of the backyard. That was not the situation this time around. We’re moving to a popular college town where there are far more buyers than sellers.
remained in our home state while my husband shopped for a house in the new state. The closest I came was a series of photos and one FaceTime call. Still, the fact that there’s so little for sale hammered home the reality that we had to be smart and view this home purchase as a business transaction.
The house we purchased was on the…
