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Published Date 10/5/2023

Home buying regrets can become haunting experience?? This is the month of hauntings. But there is one major curse you’ll want to escape — the one of being haunted by regrets when buying a home. Realtor.com’s Jennifer O’Neill puts it this way: “Buying a home has its vastly rewarding moments, of course, but it can also be a long road paved with sinkhole-size regrets. And no one knows this better than homeowners who’ve been through the process and looking back, have the perspective to see what they did right—and what they did desperately, disastrously wrong.” O’Neill canvassed a few homeowners in order to identify some of their biggest areas of remorse so that you might avoid stumbling into the same traps, the first of which is putting off house hunting until the last minute. “My biggest mistake was not starting the search for a house sooner,” declares Washington, DC, resident Aimee Agresti. “We didn’t begin until we had really already outgrown our condo.” She, her husband, and their two young sons were crammed into a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment that had got chaotic fast. Yet their “speed house searching” in suburban Maryland was described as a crawl. “It took so long that at one point, we actually made an offer on a house we didn’t love just because we were so desperate to get out of our place,” she says. “We were definitely not in the best state of mind to be making huge life-changing decisions. Thankfully we managed to get out of that deal and waited a little longer, and the right place finally came along.” Another is not getting the lowdown on schools, even if you don’t have kids. Kim Maggio and her husband didn’t prioritize finding a property located in a top public school system when they moved from Boston to Haverhill, MA in 2006. A—after all, she had just become pregnant. “We went into our purchase thinking it was our five-year home,” she explains. Nearly a decade later, they were still there—paying for their two kids to attend pricey private school...

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