This is a serious pain in the ass. We are looking to finally get a house by summer and the search process is a bitch. We are pretty specific about what we want and don't want, but even then it's a pretty big range. Trying to sort through the available inventory where we are looking is tedious.
We are looking for a minimum finished square footage, which shouldn't be that difficult to screen for, but the listing brokers are hit and miss about listing finished and total square footage properly. This I just discovered after having screened through probably 200 houses in the MLS. At least I have access to MLS, but this is still a pain.
That being said, even being able to screen using the primary broker tool for screening (MLS) still blows. Like I mentioned, I am well into 200+ houses I have screened and will probably have to go through them again. Damn nightmare.
In other news, I think I will have officially changed my life as much as possible within the last four months. Wifey is pregnant, I just started a new job, she's going to stop working, we moved halfway across the country, are buying a house, and in the middle of this we took a nearly 70% cut in household income. Hoowah!
Any of the home owners have suggestions on little things you learned in the process or after the fact?
We are looking for a minimum finished square footage, which shouldn't be that difficult to screen for, but the listing brokers are hit and miss about listing finished and total square footage properly. This I just discovered after having screened through probably 200 houses in the MLS. At least I have access to MLS, but this is still a pain.
That being said, even being able to screen using the primary broker tool for screening (MLS) still blows. Like I mentioned, I am well into 200+ houses I have screened and will probably have to go through them again. Damn nightmare.
In other news, I think I will have officially changed my life as much as possible within the last four months. Wifey is pregnant, I just started a new job, she's going to stop working, we moved halfway across the country, are buying a house, and in the middle of this we took a nearly 70% cut in household income. Hoowah!
Any of the home owners have suggestions on little things you learned in the process or after the fact?