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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP had me until this comment:

[quote=Anonymous]We’ve been looking at houses for a long time and hope to find something so we can move out of our rental. DH keeps showing me houses that have some crucial aspect missing that we need like off-street parking, is on a busy road, not in a flood zone, etc. He’s getting frustrated when I point these things out, but those are issues that are non-negotiable. I’m tired of having to be the bad guy explaining why these listings wouldn’t work for us. [b]Anyone else sick of having to be the adult[/b] in this situation?[/quote]

What a nasty attitude to have about your spouse.

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I agree with this.  Your spouse is an adult and finding home to look at but you keep saying no.  Go look at them if they have an open!  We did this!  Even homes we would never buy we went to 
see to get an idea of what we liked and didn’t like.

Maybe you both could do this look at open houses this weekend and you each pick 1-2 that you both must go see.  If you have kids get a sitter.  Grab a meal or coffee after and talk about what you liked/ didn’t like about each.

We bought a home we saw at an open house and didn’t think we’d buy!  The more we saw the more we knew what we wanted.  That being said don’t go to homes that are out of budget because then things get warped.  Stay in your budget so you know what you can actually afford and go from there.

I wanted to stay in one area but we looked in other areas close by.  We ended up staying where we wanted but realized that if we wanted more house we would have to move and we rather stay in our area but it was good to at least see that 20 minute drive away we could buy double the house for the same price!! [/quote]
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Great advice. 
Prep work pays off. We started going to open houses in our target neighborhoods as soon as the spring market started in January. We still had to get a realtor, prepare our finances and get our house ready for sale etc but we saw every promising property. It helped us figure out what we really wanted, what we could live without, chat with the listing agents and the red flags to watch for. When our current house came on the market we were able to act immediately.[/quote]

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