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Before you can move into your new home in the Dallas Fort Worth area, you need to know what is available, although the end result will be your family’s preferences about the type of home they wish to own, their choice of style, and what they need for their lifestyle. The most popular type of home available is the single family home. Built on an individual lot - either of the builder’s or your family’s choosing, a single family home offers all the benefits of living in a neighborhood with the comfort and privacy that having a yard around your home provides. Once you find the single family home of your family’s dreams, it is time to find a professional to help. This person may be a realtor, the builder, or both. If you are choosing a realtor, then select one who has a history of buying and selling in the neighborhood or area where you plan to buy. This is to give you the peace of mind that your realtor will have knowledge of:

• public schools
• extracurricular activities
• local real estate taxes
• what other homes sell for
• homeowners associations
• history of the area

You can find a realtor through word of mouth through friends, family, and the people you work or go to church with or you could contact your local real estate board. The latter can help you find a professional, licensed real estate agent in the Dallas Fort Worth area where you hope to buy your family’s next home. After you find a realtor, then you can expect to go through a few steps that are common to nearly every real estate buying process, whether you live in Dallas or somewhere else in Northern Texas. These steps include, but are not limited to, the following:

• a credit check to major national credit reporting companies
• correcting any inconsistencies on your credit report
• applying for a loan to purchase your new home in Dallas Fort Worth
• getting a home inspection from a licensed professional
• sitting down at closing to finalize the sale of your home

The Dallas Fort Worth area has a broad range of neighborhoods. It also has communities where new homes are currently under construction, and neighborhoods being planned for future homes. If you have your own plot of land already to build on, then you are one step ahead of the game and can have a new home built right there in most cases. The most important thing is to make sure your new home suits your family’s lifestyle, not only now but also in the future. For example, if you are expecting to add to your family or have older family members move into your home, then you will want to make allowances for those needs as well.