7 Signs You're Not Actually Ready to Buy a House Yet
Being able to technically qualify for a mortgage and actually being ready to own a home aren't always the same thing.
Gableline
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Licensed Realtor & Buyer's Agent
13+ years experience
Renee Castillo is a licensed realtor and a member of the National Association of Realtors, with over a decade of experience representing buyers in fast-moving suburban and urban markets. Before real estate, she worked in mortgage underwriting, which she says is the reason she still reads every disclosure line by line before a client signs anything. She's closed several hundred transactions, from first apartments to five-bedroom rebuilds, and joined Gableline to translate agent-side knowledge — the stuff usually only shared verbally at a kitchen table — into articles people can actually use before they ever call an agent.
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