When shopping for your dream home, it is also important to try and buy one in your dream location.

Start out by reading What Do You Want to Live Nearby, and What Should You Avoid? Part 1. In that post, we talked about what it is good to have close to your home. This post will focus on what you do not want to have too close to your new home.

What it is Bad to Live Nearby?

1. Busy streets. Although it can be useful to have relatively easy access to main streets or highways, you do not necessarily want to be too close to one. Having to listen to the roar of highway traffic day and night can get to be fatiguing.
2. Other noisy forms of mass transit. Similarly, it can be handy to be close to a bus station or metro station. But living right next door to noisy train tracks or an airport can really disrupt your day-to-day life.
3. Pollution. The air quality and water quality you are exposed to can have a major impact on your physical health, and even your emotional wellbeing. Research to make sure that you will have access to clean water and air that are free of pollution. This is especially important if the home is close to an industrial zone, military base, etc.
4. Bad neighbors. When you are touring houses, try to check out the surrounding homes a bit. What can you figure out about the neighbors? If they seem to be especially loud, messy, nosey, or otherwise problematic, you may be better off moving somewhere else.
5. Crime. Speaking of dodgy neighbors, look up the crime rates for the neighborhood where you may buy a home. Try and move to a neighborhood where they are low.

Move Into Your New Home with a Competitive Home Loan

You now know what is and is not good to have close to your home in terms of quality of life and overall convenience. Please give us a call at (248) 788-0800 to schedule your consultation. We can help you buy a home in Michigan or 14 other states.

When you work with MMS Mortgage Services, we make it simple and easy for you to apply for a mortgage. While we take care of the hard work of helping you find the right home loan, you get to focus on your home search.

Along with seeking a home that meets your needs in terms of square footage, layout and features, you should also be thinking about its location. Let’s go over some things it is useful to have relatively close to the home you purchase.

What it is Good to Live Nearby?

1. Amenities. To make it fast and easy to take care of everyday needs, it is good to buy a home close to grocery stores, department stores, restaurants, coffee shops, pharmacies, banks, and so forth.
2. Good schools. If you have or plan to have children, choosing a home in a great school district is very important.
3. A reasonable distance from major highways and public transit options. To minimize your commute times, it is useful to be able to get onto a major highway and/or public transit systems such as busses or metro rail fairly quickly.
4. A hospital. Especially as you get older, having a hospital within a reasonable drive of your home is a smart idea. You do not want to have to travel hours to get urgent medical attention.
5. Walking areas. If you like to go out for walks in your neighborhood, then you might want to look for a house that offers you some good areas to walk, whether they are urban, suburban or rural. For some people, this might just be a regular block with a wide sidewalk. Others might look for hiking trails in parks.
6. Your job. If you work outside of your home, buying a house that is relatively close to your place of work can make a huge quality of life difference. The time you save on your daily commute will really add up.
7. Picturesque views. If you can afford it, you might want to buy a home that offers you some lovely views of your surroundings. Of course, if you are going to be living in an area that you do not find aesthetically pleasing, you do not need to worry about this.
8. Your community. Finally, if you have family or friends in your area who are likely to live where they are for a long time, it may make sense for you to buy a home close to theirs. That way, it is easy to get together.

Buy a Home with a Competitive Mortgage

By shopping for a home in an area that offers what we went over above, you will be able to enjoy plenty of convenience in your daily life. In our next post, we will go over some things you do not want too close to your new home. See What Do You Want to Live Nearby, and What Should You Avoid? Part 2.

If you are ready to buy a home with a competitive mortgage, please give us a call at (248) 788-0800 to schedule your consultation. We can help you buy a home in Michigan or 14 other states.