hey, so this has been on my mind for a bit. I’m early 30s, have some savings, been thinking about buying property somewhere in europe, mostly portugal/spain, nothing super fancy, just something that makes sense long term. but here’s the thing, my gf literally did it all on her own and it’s kind of annoying how well it worked out for her. she didn’t want to pay agent fees, didn’t trust anyone, so she just forced herself to figure everything out. like full deep dive, chatgpt, reddit, random forums, and people here actually suggested her a few tools/websites to compare cities, yields, taxes and stuff, and apparently that helped her a lot to narrow things down. she spent time on it, not gonna lie, but in the end she found a really good deal and just went for it. and now she’s super calm about it, like it was obvious. and I’m here still in that “yeah I should probably start properly” phase.
I ask her things and she explains, but I still feel like I don’t even know where to begin without getting lost in all this info. at the same time I keep thinking I could maybe find something even better if I actually put in the effort, but I’m also not sure I have the patience she had. so now I’m stuck between going the easy route with an agent or trying to do it myself like she did, save on fees and actually understand what I’m doing. has anyone here done it fully diy like that? did it actually pay off or is it one of those things that only works if you go all in? just trying to figure out if I should push myself or stop overthinking and keep it simple.
p.s. would it actually be useful if I asked her to write a post here about how she did it, or not really?