House Buying

[jennythereader]

A couple of questions for my friends who own houses:

How long did it take you to go from "I'm (or we're) going to start looking" to "thank goodness, we're (or I'm) all moved in"?

How much of that time was spent finding the house, and how much of it was spent jumping through hoops for the bank?

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[nounsandverbs]

First house: started looking in October-November, moved in in late January/early February.

Current house: started looking January/February, moved in in late July.

Six months is a pretty good average. Negotiations and financial stuff ... the wheels grind slowly.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

What was the breakdown between finding/actually buying for you guys?

[nounsandverbs]

The house we're now living in happens to be the first house we looked at. We looked at a few others, but bid on this one fairly quickly.

Same with the Warwick house. Once we settled on Warwick as the place we wanted to live, we bid on maybe the third or fourth house we looked at.

In both cases it took approximately 4 months between bid and closing.