Huskerzoo

Also when coming up with your mortgage amount, make sure that you are factoring in your escrow (insurance and property taxes).

Worth watching the whole thing ... but best advice is about 4.5 minutes in.  Discusses how much you should borrow at a maximum.  

Dude usually gives good advice but clearly someone in his family is a real estate agent.  The last thing you need is an agent for buying or for selling.

A lawyer (has a real estate license) will do your contract for 250 dollars.  FSBO is getting more popular because the forms for the sale are online...Agents don't tell you where the good places are to buy...they take you to the houses that you sent them that you found online.

Do your research on where you want to live and why...