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One HUGE Mistake to Avoid When Getting Your Real Estate License
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What’s your “dream home” look like? Can you picture it vividly, or is it more of a general idea? Or perhaps simply owning any home would be a dream come true for you!
The term “dream home” gets thrown around a lot by home buyers and real estate agents, but it’s such a subjective term and will mean different things to each person.
But whatever your vision of the perfect home is, dreaming about it is not only common, it may also help you achieve your dreams!
According to a recent study, the average person spends about two and a half hours “dreamscrolling” everyday, looking online at things they’d like to own someday. The average time spent adds up to 873 hours per year, which is 36 total days of scrolling the internet for things a person would love to buy, but can’t yet afford.
When you look at it that way, it sounds like an awful lot of wasted time! But that’s not how most people see it…
Seventy-one percent of those surveyed said that they felt it was time well spent, because it motivates them to reach their financial goals, and 69% see it as an investment in themselves. (Although their bosses may disagree, since half of the respondents claimed to spend hours per day doing so at work!)
While their rationale may not hold any weight with bosses, here are the main reasons respondents said that “dreamscrolling” is beneficial to them:
That being said, the survey also shed some light on what people were typically spending their time scrolling for, including:
Unfortunately, those types of things aren’t likely to help someone achieve their ideal life, or retirement. Yet more than half of those surveyed claimed to have many things saved in shopping carts or open tabs on their screen, and estimated it would cost about $86,593.40 on average to afford everything they currently have saved.
However, one in five people claimed that they were “dreamscrolling” for their dream home! Now that’s a better way to focus time and attention, if you’re truly trying to envision and plan for living your best life, and ultimately your retirement! Perhaps the folks who have nearly $90,000 worth of consumer goods saved in their carts should rethink those purchases and apply that money to a down payment on a house!
“Dreamscrolling” can be a great way to make your dreams of homeownership a reality, if you do it thoughtfully! If you’re one of the one in twenty people scrolling through listings looking for your dream home, here are a few things you should avoid doing in order to make it as productive as possible:
In order to make your “dreamscrolling” more productive and turn your hopes into dreams, here are a few things you can do to make it happen:
The Takeaway:
“Dreamscrolling” is a new term to describe when people spend time looking online at things they’d like to own someday, but can’t afford yet. According to a recent study, people are spending an average of 2.5 hours per day doing it, which amounts to 36 days per year spent dreaming of what they want to buy.
One in twenty of those surveyed claimed they used “dreamscrolling” as a way to find their dream home. While it can be an inspirational and potentially useful approach, if you truly want to buy your dream home you need to take action by finding out how much you can truly afford now, and being realistic about what constitutes a dream home by focusing on homes within your budget.
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