Do you think this is a good time to buy a property? Is it when you feel secure in your career? When you and your spouse are making great money? Are you ready to take that big mortgage payment on?
How do you feel about doing all that work on the house? What happens when that water heater goes out. Their will be no one to come and take care of it for you. Imagine what that bill for a new water heater is going to be. Or what if you move some where and you can’t get any sleep because of the noise
The point is, there are things to think about before buying a home other than whether you have enough down payment. Actually down payment isn’t really an issue nowadays. Speaking of down payment, many first time home buyers look at how much they need down and try to figure out whether they can afford (or qualify for) what the mortgage payment will be.
Some other things you will need to think about. You really are not going to want to buy a property if you are planning to more in the newt few years. If you are going to move in a few years it might be really hard to recoup the cost associated with the purchase. Like the sales commissions and closing cost.
If you did have to move. You would hope that your home has appropriated enough ion value. If it did appreciate enough you could have enough funds available to cover the closing cost and the sales commission. It will very well depend on the market at the time.
Hopefully you will be like most buyers. You will stay in the home for a least seven years. This make the home buying experience a lot more practical. Usually you would want to own rather than rent a home.
Don’t every try and predict what the market is going to do. This is just like gambling. usually the odds are all ways in the house favor. You can get into a lot of trouble trying to predict what the house is going to do in the future. that’s why you want to be in real estate for the long run.
After wards, they can look back and say, “The market began to turn in 1997,” like it did in some areas of California that had a tough market in the nineties. Before the turn, though, no one knows.