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Moving To A New Home

Finding a new house

The adventure of moving home generally starts properly when you look for a new house.

Moving home, though stressful can be a very rewarding experience, but its important to keep several things in mind when moving. These can include the welfare and comfort of your children, the support structure you'll have when you move (are you moving nearer your family, further away from your family?), ease of commute to your job, schools and more.

Children usually feel moves the most, as they often find it hard to settle into new environments and like, above all else, security, and safety. If the move is in relation to a family separation, it's important to include them in the process where at all possible, and ensure their voices are heard when picking a house.
Often you can research amenities, such as local shops, schools, leisure areas and more online, which may ease the burden of investigating all of that personally. Highly rated amenities should make it easier to choose between two areas, but its also important to consider what you're looking for in an area.
Your job too plays a huge part in picking a house - can you easily travel to your place of work, and more importantly, is the area able to offer a similar job, should the worst happen?

You can also balance isolation and city life with what you prefer - if you prefer a quieter pace of life, its better to move to a town, though you may find that houses further out of cities may cost slightly more. But you will obviously find that the houses give you more room, including - possibly - a garden. With all the choices you may have to move houses, the best decision you can make is one that leaves you satisfied, and gives you the closest to your perfect match of needs and wants as you can find.

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It is very important to involve you children as they are you most important commodity you have. If they are not happy they will remember it and associate that feeling with you. Remember old age is coming who is going to help you out in the end?


We took our children to look at every house we considered. It paid big at one house, as my oldest kept nudging me as I spoke to the Realtor and when I finally spoke to he he took us to the basement. Where back in a corner under the stairs was a hug amount of dry rot. He noticed it and thought it looked strange and not right. Turns out the house in the past had flooding issues that were not properly dealt with. The leak fixed along with the drainage but not the structural issues, there was at least no wet mold.

Could have been a huge unexpected repair if we had bought it.

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When you do purchase a new home I would recommend you make sure it is what you really want before making it final. Even if you do not plan on staying very long, make sure you can live with it if your plans change. When we bought our home we only planned on living in it for about two years. We knew it was smaller than we really needed and there were a few things wrong with it. But we needed to purchase something to avoid paying a large capital gains tax on our last home. There was not a lot on the market at the time that met our needs and so we settled for what we thought was a temporary arrangement. Well, during the ensuing two years I returned to school and plans changed. That was 12 years ago and we are still in the too small, not perfect house. It's not terrible, but not ideal. The next home we purchase (or build) will be after much thought and deliberation. It will most likely be our retirement home.

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Finding that new home is one of the most exciting things in the life of anyone specially if you have kids, then you tend to look for big houses with a nice sized back yard where the kids can run around and play.

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I think buying a house is almost like having a child! I know, the comparison seem stupid but it has such power on you as a person and so many important things that involve family that is almost like a delivery in itself.