# Your buying journey

## Step by Step

Buying your home is a step by step process, and this book tries to mirror it every step of the way. Here's what we're going to cover:

1. Is buying a house right for you?
2. Why buy instead of rent, and what about rental property?
3. Getting the bank pre-approval so you can confidently start searching.
4. Deciding what you want in a home.
5. How to search for, shortlist and view properties.
6. How to make an offer or win the home at auction.
7. What the settlement process looks like
8. The bank financials
9. The settlement day
10. Home maintenance

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