Choosing a Home

Lots of renting or buying options? Many aspects to look at them?

Choosing a home to rent or buy is a demanding decision.

You will probably live in the chosen rented home at least for the next 3 years. Or if you bought it – for at least 12 years.

So when choosing a home, you usually don't want to make just an emotional buying decision. Instead, you want to weigh your options.

With "1st things 1st," complex prioritization is easy like never before

Before deciding on what home to rent or buy, take some time to evaluate your preferred options.

Prioritizer "1st things 1st" helps you choose those things that best match your criteria.

Make your decision rationally, but as intuitively as giving movie ratings

"1st things 1st" helps you set priorities for your options rationally but at ease.

There are 4 steps to go through:

defining criteria,
listing out the things you are choosing from,
evaluating things by criteria, and
exploring the prioritized results.

"1st things 1st" uses the Scorecard technique to let you evaluate options from different perspectives

Behind the scenes, there is some math involved. "1st things 1st" uses the Scorecard technique.

But no worries, you won't need any Excel sheets.

You will use the intuitive web app and leave the formulas to the computers.

It's not for everyone, but who gets the idea, understands how useful it is

"The more complex decisions you have to make, the harder it is to grasp all aspects that are involved and make them. 1st Things 1st will help you make such strategic decisions by exploding your problems into series of discrete criteria and rating your options according to those criteria. Once that is done, you'll see all those options sorted by strategic importance and know exactly which ones to choose and why."

Rimas Kudelis, Software Developer

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Step 1. Define Criteria

Choose your success criteria for the winning things. Your criteria should be positively stated, measurable, and answer the questions "how likely?" or "is it?".

Step 2. List out Homes

What are you going to prioritize? List your home options here.

Step 3. Evaluate Homes

Now you've got a combined view. Look at your homes from different perspectives: rank all your homes by each criterion.

Step 4. Explore Priorities

Explore your prioritization results: see the homes that you should choose for sure, the ones that you should consider, and the ones to skip.