The lessons I’ve learned along the odyssey of my life have taught me two things about fear which apply to women homebuyers:
* What We Fear, We Create – This explains why we must overcome fear. If we allow the fear of becoming destitute and losing our home to prevent us from buying a home in the first place, then we have allowed fear to pigeonhole us in a lower, non-homeowner, socioeconomic bracket, keeping us from developing the true wealth that is available almost exclusively to property owners. The average American property owner has a net worth over 30 times greater than that of the average renter; which side of this equation do you want to be on?
* We fear what we don’t understand. This sheds light on how we will conquer our homebuying fears – with information. The information on this site and in the book, in conjunction with web resources and the resources provided by your team of professionals, will conquer the ignorance-based fears and calm the anxiety caused by the unknown. It will expose the scary process of buying a house for what it truly is: a project, like learning a foreign language or obtaining a degree – but much shorter, in most cases. A project just requires time, a plan, the appropriate personnel and the appropriate materials.
The thing about fear in the context of buying a home on your own is that it masquerades as a legitimate “reason” for not buying; again, this is why attacking the FEQs (and the unstated fears which often lie just beneath their surfaces) with information is the only effective way to deactivate these fears. It’s a two-part equation: disprove or strategize to resolve the FEQs + demystify the process = obliterate your fears, the necessary first step of shifting into the mind of the homeowner.
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