When I bought my home eight years ago it was a pretty quick search. I found a house in my price range, in the schools I wanted and a kid friendly neighborhood. What more did I need. My basic criteria was; price (I did not want to pay more than I was paying in rent), location (I wanted to keep my son in his same school), and kid friendly (I wanted my son to have plenty of friends in the neighborhood to hang out with). Anything over that I could fix or improve myself over time. I found three homes and picked one. Moved a month later and continued on with life.
Many of my buyers are so focused on finding the "perfect home" which you can create and don't necessarily have to buy that life is just passing them by as they spend every night and weekend online looking at homes, visiting open houses and getting more and more frustrated on what to do. Ask yourself, "Why Do I Want To Buy A House?" Then pick two or three things you must have (tops) and go for it. Here is a a great article today on if the time is right.
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