First Time Home Buyer Checklist

🏡 A first-time home buyer crash course for the Chicago suburbs — the full process, in order, from the first lender call to the keys. If you're buying your first house in DuPage, Kane, or Cook County and you don't know what step comes next, start here. Two houses at $450K in different suburbs can carry very different tax bills — and that gap is bigger than most buyers' entire "wiggle room" in their budget. I cover what you can actually afford, why the lender conversation comes before house-hunting, how to pick an area, and the buyer paperwork that changed in the last two years. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 BUYING YOUR FIRST HOME OUT HERE? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This is Part 1 of my first-time buyer series. I work with first-time and relocating buyers across the western suburbs, and my job is to get this stuff in front of you before you write an offer — not after the inspection report lands. I cover Carol Stream, Glendale Heights, Bloomingdale, Hanover Park, Wheaton, Glen Ellyn, Lombard, Villa Park, Winfield, West Chicago, Warrenville, Bartlett, Streamwood, Roselle, and Naperville. If you're trying to figure out where your budget actually goes furthest, let's talk before you start touring. 👇 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 LET'S CONNECT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👨‍💼 Randy Marshall | Keller Williams Premiere Properties 📞 630-220-6356 📧 Randy.m@kw.com 💻 MarshallSellsHomes.com 📍 580 Duane St, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 🔔 Subscribe for honest, no-fluff intel on the Chicago western suburbs — do your homework before you buy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Randy Marshall is a licensed real estate broker in the State of Illinois. Sponsoring broker: Keller Williams Premiere Properties. Equal Housing Opportunity. 🏠 #FirstTimeHomeBuyer #ChicagoSuburbs #DuPageCountyRealEstate