Buying a home is more than just how much you can afford to spend every month for the next 15 to 30 years. There’s a mindset to being a homeowner, and it will make it easier for you if you fall into at least some of these groups.

1. You Want Your Very Own Home

You haven’t minded too much renting all these years. The studios and tiny one-bedrooms and roommates have been necessary. You even liked some of them. You’re a grownup now and want to do something that grownups do. Your home can be an investment that renting or living with relatives can’t be. You are putting your money to good use now. You want to feel like you have a purpose.

2. No More Rules

Well, not as many, but you do want your own space. You don’t want to have to pick up the front room if the landlord has to come in for something. You don’t want to have a landlord anymore period. You want to be able to get a pet if you want one without paying exorbitant pet fees. If music is playing you want it to be yours with you in control of what you play and at what decibel level. You don’t want to have set hours on when you go to the pool. When you have a pool in your own backyard, any hour of the day or night is allowed.

3. Your Creativity is Knocking

You can throw up a new coat of paint at your discretion or paint a mural on a wall or two. You can overhaul the garden and plant anything you. You might put sunflowers on one side and watermelons on the other or let them grow side by side. You might even want to knock out a wall to extend one of the bedrooms. You can do pretty much what you want with your own home.

4. You Want the Responsibility of Homeownership

You’re ready for your own home that is your responsibility. You want to know that you have something of your very own. You want to be the one to make repairs or arrange for someone to do it. You are ready to take on the hornets’ nest hanging from your patio eaves and clean your gutters. You can’t wait to get out and fertilize your grass and pull the weeds.

5. Forever and Ever

You’ve had your days of running around and working long hours, moving every year or so. You want this to be the last place you have your mail forwarded to. You’re ready for somewhere you can really call home. Not just someone else’s income property where you throw your books down or your laptop or your suitcase. Somewhere you can settle in, relax. Breathe. You want to know that many years from now you will still be home.

The light will go on in your heart when you find the home you want to make your forever home. You might find just the one you’re looking for when you tour the homes for sale in Sherburne County.