There are literally thousands of houses for sale in CT. There are big houses and small houses, expensive houses and inexpensive houses, condos and multi-family houses and when you’re searching you’ll find a wide breadth of properties. There is however, one thing to be forewarned about…Shiny Object Syndrome.
My dog has shiny object syndrome. At one point he’ll be playing fetch with me when all of a sudden out of nowhere an acorn will drop out of the tree and he will become infatuated with that acorn. He will then be fixated on that acorn for another two or three minutes until a squirrel runs by and then the chase will be on.
This is one of the ways humans are like dogs, we often get shiny object syndrome as well. That’s why we buy a new flat screen tv even though our old tube tv works just fine. That’s why we buy the latest smart phone even though our flip phone made calls perfectly and with very little hassle. We have shiny object syndrome and that is ok in most scenarios, but when searching for houses for sale in CT shiny object syndrome is a NO GO.
Let’s say you walk into a beautiful three bedroom two bath home and you’re absolutely in love with it. Your eye is drawn to every little shiny object you can find. The wall color is perfect for you. The kitchen has stainless steel appliances (and exactly the ones you wanted.) Look…there’s a fireplace. Wow, a two car garage. It’s all there in one nice little bundle for you and your family to move right in to…but wait, LOOK CLOSELY.
There’s water in the basement.
The water heater is old and on its last leg.
There is no entrance from the garage to the house which will render the garage useless in the winter time.
The backyard is rocky and will be very difficult to grow anything or have room to play.
It’s ok to have shiny object syndrome with some things in your life, but when looking for a home it could be the detriment of your house hunt. Go ahead and look at the shiny objects in the house that you’re looking at, but also take a moment to look a little more closely at the dull objects that are lurking just behind those shiny ones that will cost you an arm and a leg and make you wish you had looked a little more closely.
Great Article by Adam De Young (and so true)
My dog has shiny object syndrome. At one point he’ll be playing fetch with me when all of a sudden out of nowhere an acorn will drop out of the tree and he will become infatuated with that acorn. He will then be fixated on that acorn for another two or three minutes until a squirrel runs by and then the chase will be on.
This is one of the ways humans are like dogs, we often get shiny object syndrome as well. That’s why we buy a new flat screen tv even though our old tube tv works just fine. That’s why we buy the latest smart phone even though our flip phone made calls perfectly and with very little hassle. We have shiny object syndrome and that is ok in most scenarios, but when searching for houses for sale in CT shiny object syndrome is a NO GO.
Let’s say you walk into a beautiful three bedroom two bath home and you’re absolutely in love with it. Your eye is drawn to every little shiny object you can find. The wall color is perfect for you. The kitchen has stainless steel appliances (and exactly the ones you wanted.) Look…there’s a fireplace. Wow, a two car garage. It’s all there in one nice little bundle for you and your family to move right in to…but wait, LOOK CLOSELY.
There’s water in the basement.
The water heater is old and on its last leg.
There is no entrance from the garage to the house which will render the garage useless in the winter time.
The backyard is rocky and will be very difficult to grow anything or have room to play.
It’s ok to have shiny object syndrome with some things in your life, but when looking for a home it could be the detriment of your house hunt. Go ahead and look at the shiny objects in the house that you’re looking at, but also take a moment to look a little more closely at the dull objects that are lurking just behind those shiny ones that will cost you an arm and a leg and make you wish you had looked a little more closely.
Great Article by Adam De Young (and so true)
