Home buyers have regrets about the home they purchase. That's the reality of home buying. There will be regrets. Hopefully, they'll be regrets you can learn to live happily with.
If you were to buy a pair of shoes or a car without more research than quickly hearing their statistics and then slipping into them for an amazingly-short tryout, do you think you'd have regrets about the shoes and the car you purchased?
- When it comes to shoes, you try them on in the store and stomp around or, if ordered online, you stomp around at home. The shoes may be comfortable during this short artificial exploration, but when you spend a full day walking in them, your feet may experience regret.
- Same is true for a car. After the initial, new car thrill, there may be things about the car that you wish you'd noticed or realized would be important to you before you bought it.
- The lower the amount of research and thought that goes into buying decisions and the greater the emotional impulse that rules decisions, the more regret that results.
Why is anyone surprised at the outcome when very complex real estate purchases are approached in a way similar to shoe and car shopping? Real estate buyers can be left with "woulda, shoulda, coulda" regret.
That's the buying experience.
That's buyer beware.
One major difference in home buying is the support and expertise of real estate professionals who can reduce regret when buyers take advantage of this professional edge.
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