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House Hunting - Any Advice
| Tue, 09-28-2004 - 1:52pm |
Hi,
I posted here last year sometime, and have occasionall lurked since then. I think this is a great board, very friendly & welcoming.
My gf and I are currently lving in nortehrn VA and have decided the time has come to buy a house together. We are finishing up the pre-qualification and are starting the house-hunting. My question has to do with the legal issues of buying. Is there anything special we need to do to protect ourselves? We are both first-time buyers and are pretty clueless... Any advice or suggestions?
thanks

Congrats on deciding to get a house together. Our house is in my partner's name but we are looking into putting my name on the legal papers too. I don't know terribly much about it but if you are both on the ownership papers and if you get the lawyer to have the surviving partner be the one who gets the house (versus each of your halves going to your parents or someone) then you should be okay. But double check me on this!
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I'm glad you got the suggestions you needed ~ this is such a smart board! I just wanted to say congrats on your first house, that must be SO exciting! :)
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~C