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When Home Buying Becomes All About Your Kids

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Managing Real Estate Broker with Skye Louis Realty 3187020

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make in your lifetime concerns home buying. But when you have kids in your family, you consider their welfare and their convenience too. Can home buying really become an all-about-the-kids decision?

Of course. You are working hard to give the best life that your kids can probably experience. And to assure this, you’ll want a house that your kids can call their best playground ever. And if at this stage you are considering of buying a house, here are some kid-friendly suggestions you should bear in mind.

Kids’ safety should be a top priority.

No parent would ever want to want to compromise the safety of his or her children. Be sure that the neighborhood is peaceful. It will help if you will look at police records about crime rates. The presence of a nearby police station just outside the village is also a good thing to consider. If the house you are going to buy is within a gated community, be sure that there are stationed and roving guards and surveillance cameras as well.

The house and the community should be conducive for playing.

Do not deprive your children of the good things that playing can bring. Aside from physical benefits, playing also develops intrapersonal and interpersonal skills which they can use as they grow up. To facilitate a good play environment, the community where you are going to buy a house should have dedicated spaces for play such as play ground and picnic places. The house could have a spacious yard or lawn where your children can play far from cars and other outside perils.

It should be accessible to centers of education.

There is no legacy greater than the education you can give your children. To make sure that education is accessible; your next house should be within a not-so-distant address from a school. Ask your real estate agent about the schools servicing the zone. Whether day care or up to high school, it is important that you know which schools are nearby.

The house should be near entertainment centers.

Home buying is not complete without considering the house’s proximity to entertainment centers and lifestyle districts where kids’ can get the most of their family-bonding moments. Let’s face the fact that children these days are quite engaged in sophisticated playtimes in arcades, game zones, and movie houses. Amusement parks and recreation centers from within few meters to kilometres within the house may also make your chosen house quite kid-friendly.

Buying a house is an endeavour that entails different factors. When you have a kid in your family, it certainly is a child-thing. Remember that nothing is comparable to the sweet smile of your child reflective that he or she is happy with your new home.

Bruce Walter
Keller Williams Realty Lafayette/West Lafayette, Indiana - West Lafayette, IN

Desare, great list of things for parents to consider when buying their next home! So many communities are now creating exercise trails and paved bikeways where young and old alike can safely ride their bikes, walk, or run; we have many clients with children ask about proxmity to these exercise pathways.

Mar 28, 2016 09:07 PM
Sandy Padula & Norm Padula, JD, GRI
HomeSmart Realty West & Florida Realty Investments - , CA
Presence, Persistence & Perseverance

Desare Kohn-Laski Skye Louis Realty Excellent post and certainly important for us to embrace for the sake of our clients. Welcome to Active Rain and we look forward to many more notable posts from you!

Mar 28, 2016 09:39 PM
Desare Kohn-Laski Skye Louis Realty
Skye Louis Realty - Coconut Creek, FL
Residential Real Estate

Bruce Walter Thanks. It's great that developers are leaning towards more health-conscious communities too!

Apr 02, 2016 03:15 AM
Desare Kohn-Laski Skye Louis Realty
Skye Louis Realty - Coconut Creek, FL
Residential Real Estate

Sandy Padula and Norm Padula Thanks for the warm welcome! With or wihout children, safety should always be among the top priorities. And we as real estate agents should noy only sell homes through its amenities and architecture. We must learn how to capitalize on little bi strengths like a house or community being kid-friendly!

Apr 02, 2016 03:20 AM