Most of our lives are fairly mundane but every now and then we’ll be called on to make a big decision. Thankfully, we don’t have to make these decisions often but, when they do arise, they can be very complicated and very stressful. There are a lot of larger things to consider when making a big purchase or a big decision and it can take weeks or even months to think through it all. A more concrete example might help to understand this idea as it can get kind of complex. Let’s look at a single woman in her late twenties living with her family in northern Colorado. Now, this woman, let’s call her Jess, is going to be moving with her family soon to another state. She’s a visual artist and sculptor who has a fair bit of money saved up in her own name but to save on rent she’s living with her parents and siblings. So, with her extra funds and maturity in relation to her siblings, she offers to help her parents find and pay for this new home. It’s a bit of an unusual situation but they accept, needing the help, and so the search begins. This, as we’ve mentioned before, is one of those big purchases and decisions that you or anyone else occasionally have to make. The road to getting to buy a home is hard for anyone, whether they be slightly older, slightly younger or somewhere in between. In fact, finding out how to buy a home might even be more complicated than buying a car or getting involved in a serious romantic relationship. And this is before we get into the other considerations that go into buying a home such as finding a specific kind of house, such as a newly built home or finding newly built homes for several people. Moving is going to be a highly individualistic process that affects everyone differently and is going to put a different kind of stress on everybody. So what are the things that this young woman and her parents are going to have to consider when looking to buy a home?
Location, Location, Location
The very first thing they need to pay attention to, beyond finding new home builders, looking at model homes or anything else, is going to be the location they want to live in. New construction homes are nice but the very first thing is always deciding on the area you, or in the case of this family they, want to live. That decision is going to be based entirely around the area that the family lives in now and their preferences for where they want to go. In the specific case of this family, they live in a larger rural area that is not well connected to any other larger town or city. This means that if they are going to move somewhere a bit farther away they are going to have a harder time of it than a a family who lives in, say, New York or Los Angeles. Fortunately, this woman and her parents decide they just want to move closer to Denver which isn’t too far away on the scale of moving from one place to another. They want to move to a more suburban location so what does that mean for their overall plans?
Scouting Out Your New Locations
The family has decided on a new place to move so now they have to begin to research the town outside of Denver they want to live in. There are several wide swaths of consideration that occur when looking into new towns to live, many more than you might think. One of the most important areas of consideration are the schools, jobs and other supporting institutions might be in the area. After all, it’s a better idea to already have a job lined up when you are about to buy a home than get one later. The young woman and her parents are going to have think about that and a lot more when looking for the right sort of home. It’s a worth while but still occasionally complicated process.