By Ben Carlson | realtor.com
As I continue my search for a new home in the real-estate market, I can’t help but think about how different my home-buying experience is from what it was like for my parents or others in previous generations.
First of all the home search process is completely different. Everything is online these days and you can typically see 20-30 pictures of every house that’s on the market on the Internet. You can make first-level determinations from your own living room about the types of homes you would like to look at without having to go to dozens of places in person. You can pull up tax records, school district maps and neighborhood reviews on every house on the market. There’s a huge timesaving aspect of being able to cross off the ones you don’t want to physically visit.
