By Living Room Realty, April 30, 2021
Buyer Burnout
Some seasons are harder on buyers than others, and when you’ve offered on 5 properties in less than one month, your mind exhausts from contemplating how much you’re willing to compromise for each offer, or how many terms you’re comfortable presenting to be an appealing buyer. In the end, seasons of buyer activity bring varying types of feeling exhausted with the process and there are actions you can take to keep energized for your next dream of home.
1) Reconnect with Purpose
One sure-fire way to stay optimistic is keeping centered on why you are excited to move. Spend time with the loved-ones who you hope to host as guests, and resist the desire to discuss the frustration of home-buying. Contemplate or discuss the things you look forward to experiencing in your new home such as holidays, meals, and relaxing. Contemplate the need or want that you believe the next home will resolve. Write your purpose for buying your next home down on a sticky pad and set it next to where you do the most house browsing.
2) Revisit your Wants and Needs
As any home search begins with a wild dream, you have to start wanting more than you know you can afford, but allowing limitations to outline the options is part of the journey. If you’ve been looking for homes longer than a month and haven’t worked together an offer, then you might not be looking in the right areas, or for the right bed/bath composition, or for the right additional benefits tweaking the variables will bring you excitement or could bump you back to where you started dreaming.
3) Prioritize Your Time
So often we’re driven by our curiosity of what is behind door #3 that we miss out on seeing the next house. If you know that you aren’t going to want to buy a house that doesn’t have a yard you won’t spend time looking at condos downtown. Move some of that resilience to your home-browsing; if you know you aren’t interested in replacing light fixtures don’t fill your memory with houses that need moderate or larger remodeling (floors, bathrooms, additions, etc). Saving yourself time on the road brings you more time to contemplate how to get a house that you really want. Occasionally, your other timelines (leases, home-sale schedules) may create a cut-off point for your home search, in such scenarios being comfortable with the options.
Ultimately, mixing these ideas will get you the best result. Your home-purchase will benefit from you driving the process from a deeper intention, clearer criteria, and more time to contemplate the next lifestyle your new home will support.
