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Asking your spouse what they want in their next house can be tricky sometimes. The truth is, however, even though I’m in real estate, I don’t make the best decisions for my personal homes. I tend to choose architecture and style over substance. By substance I mean practicality. So what if the house only has 1 ½ bedrooms and a ¼ bath, it’s SO COOL. Luckily for me, my wife has excellent taste and amazing vision with a healthy helping of practicality mixed in. We have had 11 homes and my wife had the final say in every one. So we decided after all of our many first showings on the Internet, she should be the one to see the homes in person. My daughter had to go for an interview at Hillside and it just wasn’t feasible for all of us to go.
By the way, it was now the beginning of July and we had just found out that School in Colorado started in mid August rather than after Labor Day. So we had to find a house fast.
The good news was that the market in Boulder was very healthy. The bad news was there weren’t as many houses for sale that met all of our criteria as we had hoped. We had narrowed it down to half a dozen or so main contenders from the Internet. So, I planned one day for my wife to see them all with a Sotheby’s agent. I figured the next day she could re-visit any that were good. After that, it was decision time. No messing around.