As a buyer, one of the very first things you need to do is sit down with a good mortgage broker and determine exactly what you can afford to spend. Not what you want to spend, but what you will qualify for. Then you can work with a Austin buyers agent to determine what you can get for the money. It is critical that you must establish realistic expectations from the beginning. In almost every situation, however, some compromise is necessary.

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