Your gut is great at one real estate question and bad at a different one. The part I'd add: the two questions get confused most often under time pressure. When you've lost a couple of houses already, a feeling starts doing work it isn't built for — it starts telling you a place is a good buy, when all it can actually tell you is that you want it. Those are not the same finding, and the second one costs money. The reverse happens too. People talk themselves out of a house that was right for them because the paint was dark, the staging was bad, or it smelled like somebody else's dinner. Those are all reversible for a few hundred dollars. A bad roof, a bad panel, a bad location for your commute — those aren't. So the useful sort is: can I change this, or is it fixed? Feelings about the changeable stuff are worth almost nothing. Feelings about the fixed stuff — light, layout, street, drive — are worth a great deal. What's something you almost passed on that turned out to be a paint problem? #homebuying #firsttimehomebuyer #houseshopping #utahrealestate #realestatetips Kelsey Earl, journalist turned Realtor, born and raised in Utah, Salt Lake to St. George, 801-419-8917, [email protected], Your lifelong friend in real estate 🌟
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