[Buying a home] Planned purchase or impulse shopping
Since buying a home is likely the biggest purchase anyone makes, you might think that everyone plans carefully before buying. Whether it involves searching homes for sale in Charleston online for weeks, months or even a year or more in advance, talking with a mortgage lender and getting a loan preapproval or interviewing several Charleston real estate agents to help them (and by the way, this is something that every buyer should do, not just use the first agent they might stumble across), planning your purchase is very wise indeed.
But a phone call the other night from someone leads me to believe that not everyone takes the purchase of a home as seriously and that for some, it might in fact be nothing more than impulse shopping.
Consider this. On Sunday evening, I got a phone call from an out of town buyer who was simply passing through Charleston over the 4th of July weekend. Maybe they found themselves with nothing to do and searched online for homes for sale and saw one they liked and wanted to see. So they called me and asked if I could show it to them the next morning. Unfortunately, I was already busy with another client and suggested that maybe that afternoon would work.
Nope, it had to be that morning because they were leaving to drive back home.
So, how serious were they really. Was this a thoughtful and planned home purchase or nothing more than seeing there was a sale at a store and running out to buy something on impulse.
My best suggestion, plan ahead.
