If you are thinking of buying a new home in Las Cruces in the near future try writing a vision statement.
Your vision statement isn't just a statement that lists your most desired features, it explains what your life will be like in your new home. Include all elements of your life, including where, how much time you spend there, do you work there, play, rest, etc.
Why Do You Need a Vision of Your Home and How Will You Use It?
Before you've even started searching for a home in Las Cruces, you have already made a commitment. The Vision will help you maintain this commitment, through all the drudgery and detail work involved in getting your home. The idea is to paint such a vivid picture of the life you want that it excites you to action and keeps your commitment, energy and enthusiasm levels high -- from start to finish.
Fully engaging in and completing this exercise during your search for a Las Cruces home will place you in an incredible position of power when it comes to communicating your needs and wants to your team of Las Cruces Realtors, and staying on track throughout your process. In fact, depending on how specific your Vision statement is, you might be able to pull from it a subset of points to describe the place you're looking for to your agent.
Having a written Vision will also help keep you accountable to yourself throughout (and long after) the process of buying a home, helping you make decisions about how much to spend and, in turn, how much house to buy, that are consistent with your lifestyle needs and preferences.
Finally, used properly, your vision can be a stress manager even after you've found the house you want. I joke with my clients that the day everyone signs the purchase contract is the last day any of the parties are happy with the price. The seller calls their agent that night stressed that they took too little, and the buyer is remorseful that they paid too much! If, no, when you experience buyer's remorse, you'll have your Vision of Home there as a concrete reminder of what you wanted before you got mired in the detail of getting it. If the place you're in contract to buy (and the terms of the purchase contract) places you well on your path to your Vision -- you're good to go. If not, you still have time to reexamine the decision making that led you there before your deposit money is forfeited, giving you the opportunity to back out of the contract at little or no cost if you feel your compromises have been too extreme.
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