Oh boy! Hold on to your hats. Buying a home is probably one of the most exciting and emotionally draining things you will ever do in your life. In my experience there are three types of home buyers:

1. The Fear Before the Process Starts Kind – This group of people feels an intense grip of fear/anxiety/dread when they first realize they are buying a house. They might walk around in a kind of stupor, bump into things and walls, and want to skip meals because their stomach is queasy. Then, they get over it and sail calmly through the home buying process. Their Realtors love them because they never show any worry or give them trouble calling incessantly. Their Realtors also wonder if they’re human, not having met them in the days these buyers refused to eat, got dark circles under their eyes and walked right out into traffic, scaring everyone around them.

2. The Anxious Home Buyer that Might not Make It – This is the worst group to belong to, so if you’re here, consider yourself warned: I will know you belong here. This is the home buyer who just cannot let go of her anxiety long enough to come into possession of a house. The home inspector almost gives up on her, the termite company swears they will never deal with her again and the Realtor is seeing red because this client has dragged her out of bed early on Sunday mornings and just when she is almost in escrow every calamity on earth has hit to help the cancelation of escrow. This home buyer might just not make it to the final signing and might not ever buy a home, so if you do see yourself here, ask yourself why you are buying a house or wanting to buy one. The answer might surprise you.

3. The Home Buyer’s Remorse Club – This is probably the largest community out there, so if you find yourself in the middle of an escrow wondering if you’re doing the right thing, or lying in your new bedroom of the house you just bought heart palpitating wildly, be reassured you’re in good company. Almost every home buyer claims to have some buyer’s remorse about spending too much, buying in the wrong neighborhood, and so on. Usually they get over it by the time of the housewarming and live happily ever after.

So which kind of home buyer are you? The group you fall into should give you a pretty good idea of how stressful this process will be for you!

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