My husband and I are getting ready to renovate our master bathroom.
It's a complete renovation - every single thing is coming out, walls are coming down and being moved. The layout will be completely different, closets will be reconfigured, all windows replaced.
In other words, not a small or inexpensive job, although it certainly won't be featured on "Million Dollar Rooms" even if I am much closer to understanding how a bathroom could cost a million dollars.
The night after we met with the contractor and the designer, I could not sleep. All of a sudden, it was decision time and I was slightly panicked...while in my mind I know what I want it to look like, what if I made the wrong choices? What if the tile did not look the way I thought it would? What if, what if, what if...
Then it hit me...this is what it feels like to be a first time home buyer.
Getting ready to make a huge purchase...a huge commitment...where the stakes are even higher.
After years of buying and selling homes personally and helping others do the same, the "scary" factor had sort of ceased to be a big part of my day to day reality.
While buying a home can be a huge cause for celebration, it can be a stressful, harried, scary process...with alot of room for misgivings and regret.
I hope I never lose the awareness of just what an enormous decision it is for first time home buyers to make that first home purchase. While it is sometimes frustrating when a buyer seems to drag his or her feet when they have found "that perfect house," I hope I always keep in mind just how overwhelming the decision is and do my best to manage the process in the most stress-free way as possible.
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