If you could buy your first home over again, what would you do differently and why?

Different??? nothing, it was perfect for us, affordable, right price, had a host of owner capable repairs and upgrades and sold for well over what we paid after living in it 2 years and renting it out another 5 years......BUT that was dumb luck not research and experience.. So if anything Id say... learn more before you buy that first home

I would have hired a home inspector from outside the county. I believe my inspector had a working relationship with either the realtor or the builder. There were many problems I discovered that he should have caught.

I would have bought a bigger house...