Planning Your Dream Home – Consider the Downsides Too
Everyone has their dream home in mind! It's so nice to dream about your future home! However, to avoid disappointment later, before starting your home search, you should prioritize the important and less important criteria in your mind, carefully consider your options, and give yourself time to find the right one.
A home is purchased for years, which is why you can't decide on a whim. Think through exactly what you're looking for and where you're willing to make compromises. When viewing apartments or houses that seem suitable, don't be afraid to ask questions and investigate, and ask your real estate agent to show you the property again.
Planning your dream home - think about the downsides too
Perhaps you've been enchanted by some heritage-value area in Tartu with its low wooden houses, and in your dreams you've already settled into a cozy and authentically restored home with wide-planked wooden floors and cleaned log walls? But if the apartment for sale that requires major renovation has noticeably slanted floors and ceilings, are you prepared for the possibility that a very unpleasant surprise might be waiting under the floorboards?
Perhaps you've spent wonderful summer days by the seaside and decided that your future home should definitely be located by the sea. Have you also considered that after a short summer, autumn arrives and cold north winds blow around your home for months?
Or have you dreamed of a house in the middle of nature by a small lake shore? If you discover that a piece of land with an amazing price has come up for sale that could be perfect for fulfilling your dream, you should still do your homework before making the purchase decision. Otherwise, you might end up buying yourself a piece of Estonia that's in a nature protection area or building restriction zone, where you can have a picnic, but where you're not allowed to build a home.
Perhaps you're longing for childhood summers in the countryside at your grandmother's house and imagining how your children would be happy too, running barefoot in a large farmyard and climbing trees? Carefully consider whether you have enough time, desire, and money to restore an old farmhouse and maintain it, and to start shuttling school-age children to school, home, and activities.
Perhaps you dream of living in the city center, where everything is at hand? You already see yourself in your cozy nest in an apartment building on a main street. Are you prepared for the fact that opening the windows will fill this nest with constant street noise? If you love thinking in quiet, then perhaps a home on the outskirts of the city would suit you better.
Or is your dream a new luxury apartment where you can heat the sauna with a phone call? Why not, but before that, you should carefully consider your options and willingness to take on a bank obligation for decades. Who guarantees that your parents' support or current income or even your recently started relationship will last the next 30 years? Besides – in your dreams, in addition to taken obligations, you'd also like to rest and play.
When starting your home search, you should set what conditions are non-negotiable and where you can remain flexible. And finally, along with reasoned arguments, you should keep your heart open: often that right feeling, recognition, inspiration comes in your future home.
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Source: Arco Vara
