As a veteran of seven house moves, I need hardly tell you what an exhausting and traumatic business it can be. But hope spring eternal and every couple dream either of a first ideal home or next one. Come to think of it, how many couples do you know whose home have proved disaster area, they cannot wait to move.
As long as the home making instinct persist, so does the dream, fortified by the realization that in spite of all the difficulties about purchase, moving, adaptation and all the hidden snag a house of your own remains one of the soundest investments.
One of the fundamental questions I to decide whether to buy new or second hand. If you have a home to trade in, that’s a help: difficulty is with the first time purchaser whose help from the family usually has to be supplemented by some pretty hard saving for perhaps three years or more to qualify for good mortgage term. The first time buyers, of course, will have particulars of the official range of grants and loans which can make big difference towards meeting the ever more inflationary cost of house buying and of improvement and conversion scheme.
Remember, always that you are the buyer and therefore should call the hot never forget that you are in for onerous money obligation. That should make you assume a very discriminating, if not a perfectionist, attitude.
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