Basic Home Buying Tips

This is intended to be a bit of a primer for the first-time home buyer. Buying a home is a huge decision and not an easy one to make the first time. The home purchase process can be fraught with pitfalls that a new buyer may never see coming, so proper planning and prep is essential. Let's try breaking this process up into 3 parts; financial, shopping and moving. Let's also look at each in turn and see if we can't figure out a good set of steps to follow that can guide a new buyer to a successfu