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Process Of Buying A Home

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Process of Buying a Home In the United States, buying homes is the part of the American dream and is a main focus for many families. Being home owners show the endeavors of hard working. In the past, the signs of “Bank owned” and “Foreclosure” catch the people’s awareness. However, people could prevent losing their homes if they have been well-prepared. Is losing homes the reason that people should have strategies before buying homes? The answer is yes because I had been successful buying a home and had been well informed before buying my home. For future home buyers, there are three main important steps that they should follow for easier process and keep their homes for lifetime. The first important step to buy a home is the home buyer …show more content…

At the same time of earning credit scores, home buyers should save their income for the home’s down payment because people who have larger amount of down payment will have better chance to get the home they want to live in than the others. In this time, the average minimum of down payment is 20% of the mortgage cost. Moreover, buying home is a complicated procedure that buyers need to spend a lot of their time and have patience. Buyers should take a general real estate class from the city where they live for free and they can by themselves looking for an appropriate location and neighborhood without helping of agents and brokers such as searching available mortgage web sites which list homes and location in the Internet, or they can go around area they would like to live in their spare time. The location should be closed from their children schools, their work places, or community, etc. For example, my family is living in the single home with convenient location where we had to spend more than one year to find it. When we found appropriate location and neighborhood, the home we found was small one. However, we can add more spaces to have enough rooms for family with the permit of the city. In the first step of becoming home buyers, they should consider their income fit, earning good credit scores, saving money for mortgage down payment, take real estate general knowledge class, keep finding convenient places,

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