How to search when you have no time
A method for people who work full days and cannot spend weeks looking.
A method for people who work full days and cannot spend weeks looking.
Most advice about finding a house assumes you have days to spend on it. If you do not, this is the method that works.
Decide everything before you start
Two quarters, a rent ceiling, a maximum advance, and the three things you will not compromise on. Written down. This one hour saves ten later.
Filter ruthlessly, view in batches
Do not view anything that fails your written criteria, however appealing the photographs. Then group three or four viewings into a single Saturday morning in the same quarter.
Use the phone properly
Two questions before you agree to travel: is it still available today, and can you send the exact location? A vague answer to either saves you a trip.
Set alerts and let them work
A saved search that notifies you the hour a matching house appears is worth more than an evening of scrolling. The good houses go in the first day.
Decide quickly when you find it
If a house meets your written criteria and you have seen inside, take it. People who search efficiently and then hesitate for a week lose the house and start again.
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