Make A Checklist
Make a list of the housing features important to you and your family. You can make this checklist as detailed as you wish, including the features you would like to have in every room (not just how many bathrooms, but which bathrooms have tubs versus showers and so on). Do you want a ground-floor bedroom or bathroom? Do you want an eat-in kitchen, a separate dining room, a fireplace, a den or home office, a finished basement? For your house, do you want a large yard, a deck, verandah or patio? For your condo, do you want a solarium or a balcony? How important is the view?
If you use a checklist, you can sit down at the end of a weekend of house hunting and make comparisons according to what’s really the most important to you, without getting sidetracked by that exceptional walk-in closet or that to-die-for hardwood flooring.
