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I'm currently looking to buy a house, and although I can't say we've followed the prescribed solution to this problem to the letter (partly because house buying
by matthewowen 8y ago
I'm currently looking to buy a house, and although I can't say we've followed the prescribed solution to this problem to the letter (partly because house buying has partially overlapping option availability), I have found it to be a useful way to frame our approach to evaluating options.
Concretely, we've very consciously had a "just looking" phase, where we look at a bunch of houses with the rule that we absolutely will not buy one of them, no matter how appealing: they're only there to give us a benchmark. We've tried to size it in proportion to the number of houses we think we'd plausibly want to look at, given our horizon for buying.
I'm curious if anyone has found other useful methodologies for guiding these sorts of life decisions?
- schnevets 8y agoI used a similar approach for job hunting at one point. Perform a few interviews in an "exploration phase" where the purpose is less to impress the prospective employer, and moreso to get a pulse on the industry. You won't be able to separate company-specific red flags from industry woes until you compare & contrast a few places.