Home, as Defined by You

Everyone's vision of home is unique. What works for you might not work for your best friend or your sister or your neighbor, or even for that person you see walking through the same open house as you are. And home is something that really does conjure up an image in one's mind. Buying a home is often the most expensive purchase people make in their lives and although it is an investment, it is filled with emotion. Because of this concept of home.

As a real estate agent, I help buyer clients find a home. And I help provide guidance, data, and even some reasons they might not want to buy, to help confirm if they do want to actually put pen to paper and write an offer on a house.

I recently re-read "The Hobbit".  Immediately on the first page, I was struck by images of home. Home for a hobbit, of course, may be different than home for you. But I wanted to share a long quote to help expand your idea of home and help illustrate this concept that home creates a vision, an image, a picture. As a buyer's agent, it is helpful if my buyer clients can help paint their picture of home for me. It helps us work together as a team to find the house that will become their home.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, ... it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats - the hobbit was fond of visitors. ... The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were teh only ones to have windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden, and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river.

The emotion of home comes back to Bilbo Baggins frequently during his adventures. Give me a call or email if I can help you articulate, then find, your next home.