5 Signs You’ve Found the Right Home

Image Cred­it: Pix­abay When you’re search­ing for a home, it can be quite dif­fi­cult to come to a final deci­sion. There are many fac­tors that go into buy­ing a home, and weigh­ing all of them can be quite stressful. In addi­tion, there is so much weight and impor­tance behind buy­ing a home that you can be extreme­ly appre­hen­sive about mak­ing the wrong decision. Thank­ful­ly, there are some sure­fire ways to tell if a home is right for you. If all of these fac­tors are true, then you know for sure that you’ve found your dream home. So how can you tell that you’ve found the right place to set­tle down in? Here are five signs you’ve found the right home.

1- Fills Your Wants

One of the most impor­tant signs that you’ve found the right home is that it fills most of your wants and needs that you want out of a home. There are a wide vari­ety of things that you may want out of a home, such as a back­yard, a mas­ter bed­room, or two sto­ries. While it may be impos­si­ble to find the per­fect home that checks all of your box­es, you’ll like­ly find a few that fill most of what you’re look­ing for. These homes should be added to the short­list of homes you’re look­ing at. Obvi­ous­ly, if a home doesn’t ful­fill what you want out of a house, it like­ly isn’t the home for you. 

2- Fits in Your Budget

Although it may be tempt­ing to splurge when buy­ing a home, you should avoid it at all costs. Even if a home has all the fea­tures you want, it is not advised to go out­side of your budget. First, you may not even be able to afford the down pay­ment, forc­ing you to dan­ger­ous­ly exhaust what’s left of your savings. Even if you’re able to scrounge up enough for the down pay­ment, you may strug­gle with mak­ing the month­ly mort­gage pay­ments for a house out­side of your bud­get. Mort­gage pay­ments out­side of your bud­get can great­ly restrict your finan­cial flexibility. While you may enjoy your pri­cy home, you’ll like­ly have to make oth­er sac­ri­fices in your life that just sim­ply aren’t worth it. If you’re not sure whether or not you’ll be able to afford a home’s month­ly mort­gage pay­ments try using a house pay­ment cal­cu­la­tor. If a home is well out­side of your price range, then you shouldn’t even con­sid­er it. How­ev­er, if a home fits per­fect­ly with­in your bud­get, then it could be the right option.

3- Future Relevancy

A com­mon trap that peo­ple fall into when pur­chas­ing a home is sim­ply buy­ing for their cur­rent needs and neglect­ing the future. We as humans want to solve the prob­lems we cur­rent­ly have, and some­times we lack the fore­sight required to con­sid­er the prob­lems we face in the future. How­ev­er, when mak­ing a long-term com­mit­ment like buy­ing a home, you need to con­sid­er your future. For exam­ple, you may not have chil­dren now, but sev­en years down the road, you may have mul­ti­ple chil­dren. As a result, you may need to think of things like house size and school dis­tricts, which weren’t real­ly rel­e­vant when you first pur­chased the home. You may also pur­chase your home due to its prox­im­i­ty to your cur­rent job, but there’s no guar­an­tee you’ll be work­ing at that loca­tion for­ev­er. If a home sat­is­fies both your cur­rent needs and doesn’t restrict your future options, it is like­ly the home for you.

4- Good Location

Anoth­er impor­tant part of decid­ing on a home that’s right for you is the home’s location. As men­tioned before, you need to con­sid­er things like prox­im­i­ty to work or the school dis­trict the home is locat­ed in. How­ev­er, those are not the only things you need to con­sid­er when it comes to the location. You also need to think about the dis­tance to ameni­ties such as the hos­pi­tal, police sta­tion, and fire depart­ment. Final­ly, you’ll want to think about the neigh­bor­hood the home is locat­ed in, as high crime rates and bad neigh­bors can real­ly ruin a loca­tion. How­ev­er, if you’ve done your research and are sat­is­fied with the loca­tion and what it brings to the table, then the house just might be your dream home. 

5- Gut Feeling

The last fac­tor in decid­ing whether or not a home is the right one for you is your gut feel­ing and how the home makes you react. If you can’t decide between two homes, sim­ply go with your gut and choose the one you have a bet­ter feel­ing about. Humans have great intu­ition, and your gut instinct will usu­al­ly lead you in the right direction. Obvi­ous­ly, you should first nar­row your choic­es down using the pre­vi­ous­ly men­tioned fac­tors like price and loca­tion, but there’s no deny­ing the impor­tance of your gut feel­ing. If you tour a house and you feel con­nect­ed to it imme­di­ate­ly, then chances are you’ve found your dream home.