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Common First Time Home Buyer Mistakes
Seattle area buyers are often first time home buyers. Arriving in the Puget Sound area with their first good job at Amazon, Boeing, Google, or Microsoft, etc., landed right after college, they're eager to buy a home now, before Northwest home prices climb even higher. When a modest Seattle area home is easily over $500,000 this post by Jeff Nelson, of IXL Real Estate, is a gem to share with today's new home buyers.

 
Did you know that over 30% of the people who are in the real estate marketplace are first time home buyers?  Don't make the mistakes that your friends and relatives made when they bought their first home.  Instead, use this simple first time home buyer guide and break the cycle.  Here are the most common mistakes that they make:
 
Not Figuring Out a Budget
 
Most first timers today are in the millennial crowd so they are used to going online for everything.  They know how easy it is to view properties online.  That's great but it's so easy to start picturing themselves in a home without putting too much thought into a price.  Figure out a monthly amount that is totally devoted to housing costs that ... more

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