| “Narrow your search down to the state, the city, the suburb, and even the street!” I remember coming across this statement many years ago and at the time I thought it was a bit far fetched. My thoughts were that once you were pleased with the prices and other criteria within a suburb you were pretty safe with buying within that area.  But how incorrect I was. This was brought home again to me the other day when a friend of mine was searching for a property and had chose on the area in which to buy because it was near the beach.  The property was the only two storied house in the street and they wanted to buy it so that they could renovate and live there for some time.  Read the rest of this entry »