What is Your Ideal Dallas Home?

By dallasrealtor | November 18, 2008

Whether you are in the Dallas real estate market for your first home, second home or tenth home, the property you buy will be much more than a house.  It will be your home.  Finding the right home is a highly personalized process and it all begins by identifying your needs.  The following questions can help you describe the things that are most important to you in your ideal home and neighborhood.

1. Who will be living in your home?  Do you have children that will be sharing a room or will they need separate bedrooms?  Will you often have other family members or friends visiting for more than a few days at a time?

2. For some people “home” means a place for social activity.  For others it may be a place to retreat from the pressures of stressful daily life.  What does “home” mean to you?

3. If you will be working outside your home, what would you consider a comfortable commute (in time or distance)?  Will you be working from your home?

4. What are the most important activities for the members of your household?  For example, hobbies, recreation, school, entertaining, religious or cultural activities.

5. What are one or more features you liked most about homes you have lived in previously?  This might include style, floor plan, yard, view and neighborhood.  Maybe you like to entertain and had a large kitchen where everyone could gather, or a fenced back yard where you held annual cookouts with your family and friends. 

6. What is something you disliked about a house or neighborhood where you have lived previously, and that you would want to avoid in your next home?

7. What are the most important “must have” features of your ideal home and neighborhood? Why are they important?

By answering these few questions, it will help you tremendously in searching for your new home.  It will help you to narrow down what’s important (and not just the physical features of the home).  It creates a visual lifestyle and not just a home.  Give it a try and see how it works for you.

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