New features, home shopping
General May 5th, 2004
Some of you noticed I finally got comments, at least in a simple form, active on the blog yesterday. We’ll see how that goes.
I’m planning on buying a house, and have been halfheartedly searching over the last week. Today, I drove by 6 homes on my way to work, and wasn’t really impressed with any of them. The ones I did somewhat like were already off the market or pending sale. That’s scary — I usually take a long time to deliberate on large purchases. It seems if I try to do that here, I’ll lose the house I might like. But I’m not inclined to even look at a house that doesn’t “do it for me” from the outside, although I probably should at least for the experience of house hunting. I think my mom and brother are going to come up this weekend and help me shop around. Weeee.
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You are entering the prime time for a seller’s market. late summer-late winter are the prime buyer’s markets. everyone wants to move while their kids are out of school…
/marc
“What about the children!!”
Bah. I had the advantage that my current landlord is also my realtor/agent, so there’s some flexibility if we find things. My lease is up June 30th, and I doubt I would have more than a month of grace. Joel’s not going to sign a 6 month lease, I don’t think. So, if I don’t buy now, I’m stuck for another year. I could look at buying around January/February next year, when the market is better, but that’s six months of dual housing payments I can’t make.
-Dave
Buying a house during the winter months stinks. There are not many houses on the market. This is prime time for house hunting.
-Rich
Let me also plug my company as we do loans. http://www.rlca.com. Email me and I can hook you up with someone here. I’m very proud of my company and am happy to plug them, but if you find a better deal, go with it. Even if you don’t have a house in mind right now, you should get your credit pulled and checked, which we can do. Ok, i’m done. Contact me if you’re interested.
I heard that homes are on the market for an average of 21 days here in Champaign (maybe from you), surprised me, mostly because that’s not a lot of time to be able to think about it.
-Eric the Great.
wow … that’s a lot of comments. i do like the way the rss feed includes the # of comments in it though. good luck on the house hunting.
Comment test.
-Dave