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JAPH23
LIF Adolescent
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Re: How long did it take you to find your house?
Found it on the second day!... didn't close for 3 months after that though.
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sunnyplus3
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Re: How long did it take you to find your house?
We looked in an entirely different area for about 4 months this was in 2003-04 so prices were crazy.
Once we decided on a different area, specifically one neighborhood of 700 homes I looked everyday online and drove through most days. After looking at tos of houses I found our house which would not qualify for a conventional mortgage due to severe water damage from a failed heating system.
We made a deal with the seller to hire us to repair it, my DH is a licensed builder and we worked on getting a mortgage as that happened. We offered on feb 27, did the repairs and closed on may 27. The sellers were already living out of state which helped.
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| Posted 12/6/13 7:16 AM |
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babyface10
LIF Adolescent
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How long did it take you to find your house?
We started looking in April and closed mid July.
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| Posted 12/6/13 11:29 AM |
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Re: How long did it take you to find your house?
Started looking in September/October, closed at the end of June. Got an accepted offer mid-April.
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| Posted 12/10/13 1:49 PM |
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bpmom
Feeling Blessed
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Re: How long did it take you to find your house?
Back in 2003 -- Started looking in October, put offer in on first house we saw, in contract by Halloween but didn't close until Valentine's Day 2004.
~5mos total.
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| Posted 12/10/13 2:41 PM |
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Snoopy36
LIF Adolescent
Member since 12/13 665 total posts
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Re: How long did it take you to find your house?
not too long.... started looking in november of 07 & closed may 08
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| Posted 12/11/13 10:14 AM |
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Re: How long did it take you to find your house?
For me, back in 2008 (before I was in real estate), it took us about a month, maybe 6 weeks. We started looking seriously with a buyer's agent in early May. We put an offer in on a house in June (maybe middle/end of June). We had previously casually looked by going to open houses, but once we started seriously looking because I was pregnant, it didn't take too long.
As a professional, I've had buyers who buy the first or second time I take them out, and I have buyers I work with for 6-9 months! Some people go through more of an evolutionary process (start out looking at houses and then decide to buy a condo, start out looking in one area and then switching to another). But most of my buyer clients are serious buyers and find a house within 4-6 weeks on average.
Now, some of my first-time buyers who have a limited budget and limited inventory available are really jumping on houses early in their search b/c they know there's not much out there.
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| Posted 12/11/13 11:17 AM |
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JME78
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Re: How long did it take you to find your house?
We started looking in June, we are closing first week of January.
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| Posted 12/16/13 11:29 AM |
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