By: Amy Howell Hirt
The negotiations are over. Your mortgage is settled. The keys to your first home are in hand.Finally, you can install your dream patio.
You can paint the walls without losing your security deposit.
Heck, you could knock out a wall. You’re soooo ready to be a homeowner.
So ready in fact, you’re about to make some costly mistakes.
Wait, whaaat?
“You have to rein it in and be smart,” says Daniel Kanter, a homeowner with five years under his belt. Especially in your first year, when your happiness, eagerness (and sometimes ignorance) might convince you to make one of these eight mistakes: