Because you share walls with your neighbors in a condominium, there are often strict rules about renovations
Every time a faucet leaks, a light fixture is faulty or an appliance acts up, it’s on you to handle it.
Make sure you get strict about setting times when you do not talk about house hunting. Maybe get away for a weekend. Otherwise, when you close on a house, it may not feel as celebratory as you’d hoped because you and your partner no longer feel as close as you did when the homebuying process began.
Huh – she is a single woman, in her late thirties, and she’s decided to purchase a home. A rather serious decision. And she hasn’t yet found her life partner. It was fascinating, really. There goes my possibly old fashioned brain again. I always associated home-buying with building a…family?
When you see yards that look well-maintained and welcoming, know that they don’t just pop up that way. Somebody dedicates a lot of time and resources to making them that way. Here are things first-time yard owners need to know.
The moment you buy a home, that goes on public record, and tons of businesses – from legitimate to not-so-legitimate – are constantly checking those records, finding their next prey. They’re very good at sending mail that looks urgent, important, and official, too.
Whatever stuff this friend will come with, you know what it is. Does she have a tumultuous on-again-off-again relationship with some guy who will come and go? At least you already know that. You’re prepared for that. Is she a little messy? Well, you already know that—you’ve seen her current place.
There are several things that a couple will pursue together throughout their life that are meant to bring them closer together, but that the process of pursuing could actually drive them apart. Planning a wedding is a big one. Marriage is certainly meant to solidify a union, but just getting to that point of walking […]
This is a tough one but it will come up: one of you will absolutely love a house, and be ready to put in a high offer—whatever it takes—right now, but the other one doesn’t love it. You can’t move into a place that one person feels lukewarm about. But this blow is devastating to the person who loved the home. And you’ll feel that blow for days (or weeks) in your relationship.
Sometimes, this non-traditional step is a mandate that comes down from the older, typically more traditional generation. In fact, both of my parents have been persistent about trying to get my boyfriend and I to buy a place in order to secure our financial futures. They talk to us about this more than they ask us when we’ll get married.
Buying your first home as a couple should be a very exciting and positive time. If you think about it, purchasing a home together is almost a larger commitment than getting married. If you split up as homeowners, you have a large asset on your hands to split up, a mortgage to contend to and a […]
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