What were your not willing to compromise on when looking at houses?

For us...the house had to have a basement, a dining room and 2 bathrooms

ETA...We looked first by school district and wanted to be on a nice quiet street

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A waterfront location. So many realtors showed us waterview instead of waterfront, where you could see the LI Sound if you looked through your neighbor's window, etc.

We didn't care about the house at all, just the waterfront location.

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Fenced inyard for Gus, and a basement for me. I'm scared of storms

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Our biggest must was one particular town - which is 3 square miles.

Other than that, we wanted a room for husband's cr#p - oops, I mean "man's room" and a nice piece of property.

We were all over the board with other musts.

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2 car garage, 4 bedrooms and a front porch.

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we really needed a basement, We also wanted at least a 60x100 Lot. and an attached garage.

Oh it had to be Midblock, on a quiet street. away from any major roads or highways
Also could not be a corner.

In 3 weeks we were able to get all that!

But we also knocked it down. so location was the most imporant, and good schools too

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Location. We will only look in 5 towns in our area and we don't want to be on a busy street. We don't want to hear a lot of cars when we're outside in the backyard.

Other things that are a must for us: 2 car garage, 4 bedrooms (preferably on the same floor), 2.5 bathrooms and basement.

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Finished basement, at least 3 bedrooms and 2 baths (have 4 br, 3.5 baths) and a decent kitchen.

Message edited 10/30/2007 10:08:06 PM.

Re: What were your not willing to compromise on when looking at houses?

Specific location & school district, Flat useable 1/2 acre or more.

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We're going to start the house hunt for our next house in the next year or two and the things we won't compromise on are:

must have eat in kitchen
must have big yard
must have CAC
at least 4 bedrooms
formal dining room
basement and attic

school district is important, although not deal breaker since our kids are going to Catholic or private schools

Im guessing it'll be a long look for what we want

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garage, 3 bdrms and 2 bths oh of course location (only wanted bayside)

Message edited 10/31/2007 6:19:16 AM.

Re: What were your not willing to compromise on when looking at houses?

master bathroom-or room to add one right away
4 or more bedrooms or room to expand right away
specific community that only has 800 houses
quiet street
basement and garage-we only got the basement but plan to build the garage in the spring.
a fixer which allowed us alot of flexability because we were prepared to do a ton of work.

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Master bedroom with a bathroom
at least 4 bedrooms
more then 1.5 bathrooms
Garage
Nice piece of property
Basement for storage

Luckily, we got them all

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We definitely wanted the town we are in, preferably the village

2) a Garage & basement

3) At least 3 bedrooms

4) No slanted ceilings

5) A decent sized property

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Eat in Kitchen

Big Back Yard

Room to expand

Garage

We wanted a Basement but we didnt get one...Next house.

Scott

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Location - we only looked in one town.

I also think that it had to be a center hall colonial. Even though we didnt specifically say this, anything that i looked at that was not a CHC I almost immediately rejected.

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We had a fairly large "must have" list before we started.

And all of it changed. You have to weigh pros and cons of each house.

The one we're buying only has 2 bedrooms but is in a better location than we thought we would get.

Everything else was a compromise to get into that neighborhood. The size of the house & plot too.

What we didnt compromise on was price. It's 50k less than our highest limit, so that was a huge draw to us also.

It's all relative and you learn to change your expectations, the longer you're out there looking. Unless you have gobs of money, which we didn't.

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Open floor plan

Updated Kitchen

Move In Condition

Good Schools

2 Bathrooms

At least 3 Bedrooms

Big Yard

I have to say I found them all

Message edited 10/31/2007 10:00:23 AM.

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Move in condition/updated

Hardwood Floors

CAC

Schoool District/Area

Open Floor Plan

Colonial

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DH wanted a garage

I wanted an up to date, good size kitchen

I wanted a DR

We want at least 3 bedrooms.

We got that, plus more with our home!

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hardwood floors (dh has allergies) ,full basement( finished or not) ,proximity to major highways, formal dining room and quality school district

Message edited 10/31/2007 9:46:55 AM.

Re: What were your not willing to compromise on when looking at houses?

We wanted the following, some were town requirements and not so much house:

Town with a decent train line to NYC (and the ability to walk from our home)

A town with a downtown or a shopping area--we both hate going to malls all the time

Garage (DHs request)

Basement

3 bedrooms

At least 1.5 baths

Not on a busy road

That's about it. We did find one with all these things!