How To Buy A House part 1
Perhaps I should title this “How To Find a House To Buy” as buying a house is easy - you simply pay for it and it is yours (more or less).
But finding a house means looking, researching, meeting - part of a whole lot of stressful factors and you will never know that what you are offering to buy is really the best one for you - the perfect house may be just round the next corner and at a better price than the one you decide on.
When I was a teenager and we had a lot of parties - this was an interesting time, sex had just been invented just for our benefit and there was really only one purpose of going to a party (or going anywhere really).
My technique was to up to the first girl and ask a simple question - if the answer was no - I went to the next one - and so on. Usually within a couple of minutes of arriving I had a result (and I was still sober, usually) - however, this took some learning, at first I would look around the room and decide which was the “best” girl there, at the same time I would have a few drinks to relax - by the time I had started a “chat-up” line my choices were reduced and my judgment was getting cloudy, I often ended up in the hall at the bottom of the stairs, or in the kitchen, discussing metaphysical poets with weird people of indeterminate sex when what I really wanted was to be at the top of the stairs with someone whose sexuality was in no doubt.
I remember one party where my “infallible” technique was too successful, I had several “yes” responses and, you guessed it, they all found out and the sum result of a lot of yeses is one no. Which may prove a new mathematical theorem that two or more pluses can equal a minus.
What has this to do with finding a house. Basically it is the same problem, set your objective and go directly to the source looking for a result, one result. Don’t mess around waiting for introductions, don’t waste time looking at impossible dreams, decide what you are looking for, look for it and when you find it make an offer and stick to it.
The trick is (and the subject of part 2 of this series) “How to Find A House To Buy” - I said that should have been the title.
Tags: buyingproperty, house for sale, french property, property in France
