There's no perfect home, but some homes are more ideal for your household than others. When you look for your next home, carefully consider these four criteria –price, features, location and condition. The closer you get to meeting all four criteria, the better your chances are of making a good buy.
Price
In any market, price has to come first. To determine what you can comfortably afford, talk to your real estate professional. He or she can recommend a lender who will prequalify you for a purchase loan. When you know how much you can spend, it will be easier to shop for homes within your price range. With luck, one will stand out.
Features
The size of your household and your activities determine the features you want in your next home. The number of bedrooms, baths and living areas are a matter of comfort and convenience. You may want an extra bedroom for guests or a second master suite for parents.
If you work a lot at home, you'll want a private home office or a computer nook. You may want a playroom for the kids, a separate laundry area, and fenced yard and covered patio for entertaining. An eat-in kitchen may be more important to you than a formal dining room. You may want an outdoor kitchen or at least an entertainment area.
Think about your daily life from morning to bedtime, and how your next home can make these activities more pleasant. This should be your "must-have" list, and will help you look at homes more objectively.
Location
Some areas will always be more expensive to live in than others. Neighborhoods that are well-kept tend to maintain higher home values. Homes that are close to jobs, schools and shopping centers tend to sell for more money than homes without as much infrastructure.
What is the best home you can find in the area where you want to live? If these homes are out of your range, you can compromise -- buy a smaller home or a home that needs lots of work in the best neighborhood you can afford.
Condition
Condition refers to the state of repair. Does the home have curb appeal? Is it updated and well-maintained, or does it need extensive and expensive remodeling? Carefully consider any deferred maintenance, such as a roof that may need to be replaced in only a few years. Consider the design and functionality -- is the kitchen too small and would you be able to afford to remodel it? Look closely at repairs, cleanliness and traffic flow.
The one advantage of buying a home that needs updates and repairs is that these homes cost less than updated homes in the same neighborhood.
Be prepared to compromise. Don't frustrate yourself or your family looking for perfection. Sometimes the home of your dreams doesn't have every feature on your checklist, or it may be a little further away than your favorite neighborhood, but you'll be happy if it has most of criteria you want at the price you can afford.
Source: RealtyTimes, Blanche Evans
http://realtytimes.com/consumeradvice/buyersadvice1/item/37228-20150806-what-makes-a-home-a-good-buy
SEXUAL IMMORALITY IN THE CHURCH BY STEVE FINNELL
ReplyDeleteSexual immorality in the church, is it God's will? Some believers in Christ think God looks favorably on congregations that welcome Christians into the fellowship who are actively involved in sexually immoral practices.
Is tolerating Christians who are unrepentant homosexuals, heterosexual unmarried couples who are living together, child predators, those who practice bestiality, or other forms of sexual impurity, pleasing to God?
1 Corinthians 5:1-2 It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father's wife. 2 You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.
Why are so many churches proud of their tolerance of sexual immorality?
1 Corinthians 5:9-12 I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; 10 I did not mean at all with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world. 11 But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler---not even to eat with such a one. 12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church?
That is correct, Christians are to make certain judgments.
1 Corinthians 5:13 But those who are outside, God judges. REMOVE THE WICKED MAN FROM AMONG YOURSELVES.
The apostle Paul says remove the immoral man from the church. Christian leaders say just love him until he repents.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;
In the contemporary church abstain from sexual immorality is interpreted to mean; abstain, if it is convenient and does cause not cause any finical or mental anxiety.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, not the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
The Scriptures tell us loud and clear that Christians who are unrepentant in their sexual immorality will not inherit the kingdom of God. Yet many congregations say we love you too much to ask you to repent. We would rather see you go to hell than to exercise church discipline.
Revelation 21:8 ....immoral person...their part will be in the lake that burns with fir and brimstone, which is the second death.
Why churches think that accepting unrepentant sexually immoral Christians into the fellowship of the Lord's church is an act of love is beyond my comprehension.
GOD SAYS THAT UNREPENTANT SEXUALLY IMMORAL CHRISTIANS WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD!
THE CONTEMPORARY CHURCH TELLS THEM WE CANNOT JUDGE YOU, ALL WE CAN DO IS LOVE YOU!
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