After 14 showings during three weekends, with all properties meeting the criteria, the couple still haven't found anything they want to buy. And truer words were never spoken. One of the most common errors in home buying is defining housing needs by number of bedrooms and architectural style, without identifying or evaluating individual considerations of comfort.
Comfort is the factor that separates home buying from ordinary real estate investment.
Regardless of what gateway you've chosen in Part I, identifying your specific needs for comfort is the first step in getting the right house every time you buy. Those are luxuries, although they may indeed be part of your comfort profile. But comfort need not be expensive. What's comfortable, after all, is determined individually from a seemingly infinite number of choices. Comfort is a feeling of ease and contentment derived from a person's response to his or her physical surroundings.