I keep forgetting how influential the actual feel of the place is once you're house hunting. I went to see some townhouses today and now I really want a two bedroom place that's way out of my price range. They do have an option that is in my price range but I will have a look and see how I go with the figures. I need to talk to my broker tomorrow.
No stamp duty and a $10,000 leg up from the government is a wonderful thing.
But this is crazy. I'm buying a house! Well, not a house, but something that will be my own. My partner came looking with me. He complained about the size of the oven. I told him we could amend that. He got so excited. So was I. Not renting will be a really nice change. But it's a little intimidating - all that debt. But there's never been a better time to do it. May as well jump huh?
Oh, and by the time I finally got the agent on the phone, all the ones I wanted in the complex I was talking about in my last post were gone. Sigh.
I can totally relate to how you feel after looking at those townhouses. I think that it is very easy to get carried away in your search when you look at properties that are out of your price range. It is so easy to see yourself living in those places and then everything else that you look at doesn't compare.
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you mean Margaret. It happens to me all the time. An overactive imagination doesn't help. I ended up buying in the same complex actually, I just downsized the size and inclusions so it came within my range happily. But it's still not the same... :( lol
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