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we've been looking (although in no hurry) and haven't found anything. It's been about 6 - 8 months.
We looked on-and-off for about a year, but only looked seriously for about 2 months? As far as number of houses we PHYSICALLY looked at (this is not including probably the hundreds online) it was probably 14 or 15. I was very picky on my online search. Homes.com was the BEST - and the site we found our house on!
Good luck - it's out there!
I found my house on the first day of looking. It was the house's third day on the market, and it was perfect and soooo underpriced. There were 4 other people that put in offers the same day I did.
We looked for over a year.
When you know, you know. Everything will work out when it's the one. For us, in that year we looked home prices kept dropping and after we bought our house, the value started increasing within the first year. Had we bought a year earlier though, we would have lost equity. So it worked out perfectly for us.
We looked for 5 months, and then dropped out of the market. We saw 30+ houses in person, went under contract on one that had an awful inspection report, and generally spent our days feeling like we were on the edge of vomiting and/or crying. We'll start again in the spring, and I am dreading it. I hate house shopping.
We've been looking on and off for 1 year. Physically, we've only seen 2. We need to start looking again. I work in the Real Estate market and it's even difficult for me :/
We spent about a year looking online and doing "drive bys", we probably looked at over 300 houses.
We looked seriously for about 2 months, and in person we only looked at 5 houses and I knew right away. I walked in and it just felt like home to both of us.
@yellowshoe: I really hope it will all work out! I feel so dang discouraged!!!
Especially after the inspection that we paid almost 500 bucks on broke our dreams on the first house! Looking for a house is exhausting! I feel bad for a realtor too!
Oh and I mean we have actually physically looked at over 20 houses!
We look at pics online and so many of them are decieving!!! You get to the house and they look nothing like the pic ... womp womp
We searched for about 3 months. I don't even know the number of houses I looked at in person, maybe 30+? There was one that I really loved by my husband wouldn't touch it since it wasn't on a flat lot so we got one that is nice but doesn't have the ah-ha moment of THE HOUSE.
We searched for 6 months, physically looked at 30 or so houses before deciding to build a new home. There were 3 houses that we put offers on before one was accepted and when we got the inspection there were multiple problems that forced us to walk away. We finally took a serious look at building and found that it was an affordable option and we could get a house we could grow into rather than the starter homes we were looking at. Then we looked at about 4 different models/floor plans, found one we loved and felt could be home and we are closing Dec. 27th.
we shopped around for about a year and a half. it was a long ardruous road, and we lost several homes we really liked, but it was all for a reason. we LOVE our townhome. it's perfect for us as our first home and everyone who has ever visited it loves it equally as much :)
tis a bit messy right now though.... oops.
We're about a year in. Our issue is trying to stay away from short sales. We did also have a house fall through after inspection. We've agreed to settle on something by February if we have too.
We looked for about 5-6 months. During much that time we probably went to open houses at least every other weekend, seeing 3-4 houses each time. We probably looked at over 40 houses in person, and god know how many online. Toward the end of it we had seen every. single. house. that fit our criteria in the 5 or 6 towns we wanted to be in and was just waiting for more homes to come on the market.
@pinkshoes: that is exactly where we are now. We live in the GTA and in this area, homes are not in our price range. So I am going about an hour west (and will be commuting daily). We have seen almost every home in the town we are looking to move to. Now it is just a wait to see if anything new comes up. The huge problem is that houses go SO FAST. On friday afternoon 2 houses came up that we wanted to see. We scheduled to see them that saturday morning at 10am and they were already sold!!!
@tranquility: Those were probably just an inside job where the realtors knew of a buyer already, but the house just had to come on the market and be listed for a single day to make it 'official', so it was really already gone before it was listed. Annoying though! We were actually really bummed twice during the search because we saw two homes that were snatched right out from under us (sorta). One was listed 50 something days already, we saw it, loved it, was going to make an offer in the morning (we saw the house at like 7pm after work). The very next morning, we got news that they accepted an offer at 9pm just an hour after we left. So we went back to our second choice house that we saw a month earlier but wasnt 100% yet, but we decided it may be the best out there. It was listed for at least 90 something days, sat there the last 30 since we saw it, and we told our realtor to call about it. Guess what, they accepted an offer just the night before also!!! We actually ended up expanding our search criteria by upping our budget 15-20%.
We searched for about 5-6 months then found our house (after looking ALL OVER our city!). It took a little over a month to get all the paperwork finished and move in. It is worth the wait, make sure you are totally in love with the area and the house, don't just settle. :)
It depends what you count as 'looking' for a home. Because DH and I had a sale fall through last Spring then took some time off from house hunting but kept our eyes on the market in the meanwhile, only going to open houses if we had nothing else going on that Sunday. I saw our apartment the first day it was on the market and sent DH to the open house in August, but it was priced too high at the time so we held back. It went through 2 price drops to finally a reasonable asking price and we put in our offer that weekend.
We're almost reaching the 1 year mark from when we first 'started' looking before entering into contract on our first apartment, so you could say we've been looking for a year.
@pinkshoes: Sorry, but that's not true. (ETA: Ok maybe not 'not true' but most likely it was not an inside deal because of our market) Our market in the GTA is extremely hot. I have sold properties on the day that I listed them simply because people know how fast houses move here and if it's a good property they put an offer in right away.
If the agent knew of buyers willing to purchase the property there is no requirement in Ontario for it be first listed on MLS. There are many neighbourhoods where houses sell for $50-100k over asking which is why we tend to accept offers on certain days only.
@tranquility: You'll find something! I'm not sure where you're looking but I work in Mississauga/Etobicoke and inventory is so low that I have nothing to show to my buyers.
You know what, if it's meant to be it will be! I have clients who visited a house 5 times before putting an offer in (it was in a really high price range so those don't move that fast). When they finally put an offer in we spent 2 days negotiating and trying to agree to a price. In the end the deal fell through. Not even 2 days later another house came on the market that was even more perfect than the first. It's theirs now!
@tranquility: Trust me, we felt discouraged COUNTLESS times. We've had houses snatched up from under us and gone back and forth on offers, put offers in on short sales that went no where, etc. My FMIL just kept telling us if it's meant to be yours it'll be yours. I thought it was so annoying at the times she said it, but looking back, we do have the perfect house for us. So try to be optimistic. I know it's hard, but it'll work out.
6-8 months. We bought the first condo we saw. It was hard to measure up to such an awesome space. We spent the rest of the time looking for properties similar to the one we wanted. We waited until the sellers were worn down with bad offers and too high of a price to put an offer in. We got really lucky that we got the place we really wanted. We had one year with bad upstairs neighbors. We like our new neighbors a bunch better. Who knew that three guys were less noisy than two-three women with large Sunday gatherings.
We looked for a year - about 8 months just going to open houses and then about 4 months with a realtor, going out to see 3-4 houses at least once a week. We saw over 100 houses, but only put an offer (for full asking price, the day it went on the market) on one. :o)
@Ms. Martian: It's true. I feel bad for our realtor because I know she wishes she could show us more but there just isnt anything. It doesnt help that right now is close to the holidays.
@septcabride: Good to know that we arent the only ones seeing tons of places!
We looked at hundreds of homes online, and probably 20-30 in person. We made an offer on a short sale that never went anywhere, and ended up purchasing a forclosure the 2nd day it was on the market for 5k over asking price. We started looking seriously, with pre-approval from the bank in July (of '08), and purchased our home that October. At points it was seriously frustrating, but it was worth it in the end. We really got a great deal! The worst was dealing with the bank/loan, seriously the most stressful part of the whole process.
About 6 months!
We had an appointment with our realtor about once a week [give or take scheduling conflincts and holidays] where we would see anywhere from 1 -4 homes.
We are in Florida where the market completely bottmoned out, it is a home buyers heaven, sooo many nice houses were built in teh big realestate boom, and now are dirt cheap. There were so many amazing deals, and lots to consider as far as tax distrcits, location, saftey etc etc.
@tranquility: When I bought my townhouse, I easily spent 8-9 months looking and probably saw 35-40 places in person. When hubby and I relocated to a new area and bought a place together, we researched a lot online and came up with a list for our realtor. We looked at 8-9 houses over one weekend and found the place we are living now.
1 year. Yes. A whole year. I started looking the summer of 2010 and waited as the economy declined and watched the avg house price in my area drop by 100K. When my dream location opened up I pounced. Several times. And lost. Several times. Finally in summer of 2011 we landed a beautiful townhouse in the area we wanted at the price we wanted. :)
EDIT: The best piece of advice I heard as I was searching was, if you've gone on so long that you feel depressed and exhausted by the process, you're about to find the house. House hunting is not a sprint. It's a marathon. And everyone I knew spent months and months hunting and being disappointed repeatedly before they landed their home. Sounds depressing, but the point is to have patience and it will pay off. :)
A YEAR! We saw so many homes it was unreal. Went through 3 realtors (First 2 worked for the same company and kept pushing homes that we DID NOT want). Had a couple offers fall through on 2 short sales, one traditional sale (They chose another couple, better offer), One home we absolutely LOVED on 4 acres of land and exaclty what we dreamed of, but it had THE worst inspection. A list a mile long of things wrong, INCLUDING wiring, foundation, and flooding (it was on a lake !).. after finding our realtor throught my aunt, it was about 2 months of looking and discussing options, and we ended up building! After all the stress and searching, we couldn't help but laugh at how easy it was to make this decision. It was right for us, and ended up paying less than we had originally wanted. So good luck hunting and the house will come along and you'll know when it's right!! :)
I looked for 3 days. Found it on the third day, put an offer in, and it was accepted the next day. I wasn't planning on buying that soon, but when I walked in, I knew it was the one!
We have been looking for a little less than a year. With that said, we haven't been super serious house hunting until after the wedding 6 months ago. We've probably seen about 30-40 houses with our agent (thankfully my DH's uncle) and been to countless open houses. Thousands of houses online.
We are finally at the point where we know the market and what things are worth (regardless of list price). We know what we want and specifically where we want to live. It's just a matter of the house coming on the market. Unfortunately, we are looking in a very small and specific part of town so there is almost nothing on the market right now.
We did find the house that we loved but the sellers were being unrealistic in their price. We figured we'd wait until after the new year and put in a low (and reasonable) offer. However, they have since gone under contract and I'm dying to know what they sell for. C'est la vie, what can we do.
We'll find it eventually....
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We have only been searching for about a month and I already feel like I am going crazy!!!!!
We made on offer on a home that I really loved but after the inspection showed tons of problems (wiring, plumbing, foundation) we walked away.
We have seen about 20 or more homes and just haven't found the right one!
So how many houses did you look at? Did you get a "feeling" when you found the right one?