When you are looking for that perfect house, you probably aren’t going to find it, so you end up trying to work out if you can turn a place into what you are after.
This can lead you down a few time consuming rabbit holes
You can find that you have missed out on that house, while you have been getting quotes or doing research.
Or they are serious about that unrealistic price they want and wont budge.
It’s an emotional rollercoaster which doesn’t always end well.
But if you let emotion take over, you are going to end up paying too much. Even if you pay say $10,000 too much, it’s going to take you sometime to pay it off, so the stakes are high.
If you are comfortable with a little extra debt, thats fine, but given that morgage rates are north of 7% at the moment, it’s an extra burden you dont need.
Uncoffined 
There are bargains out there, but it takes patience to find them.
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