<prompt> Human: This seems like the right spot to ask as I cant find many active sub-reddits discussing house buying. First time starting a post.As the title says! I am interested in buying a house, Should I buy athe house and I dont know where to begin to buy a house.Now, my Story...So there is a house a few blocks away that has been for sell since I first moved into my rental 2 12 years ago.When I first moved in I mentioned to my neighborlandlord that maybe he should buy it, fix it up, and rent it out. He told that they want too much for it, and he doesnt want to take on that type of challenge again as he had just finished doing that very thing to the property on the other side of him. Anyway, I finally looked looked it up and found it on Zillow about a year ago. One thing that I noticed was that it was listed as Uninhabitable. So I didnt go much further. Well, a year has gone by and it is listed on Zillow for half the cost it was at. Which makes me wonder if I should look into buying it. The problems I have with the house is: Zillow has pictures of the outside of the place but no pictures of the inside. It looks smaller then what I would like. Its 3 bed 1 bath. - I will want to add a second bath It is closer to the train tracks then where I am currently. - I will have to look at how can I quite that down... My buddy says buy it. Fix up the KitchenDinning Room first, put your bed in the dinning room then work on Master Bed roomadding the second bath to the master bedroom. Once you do those 2 things take your time on the rest. Then there is my over all want but I feel like it is out of reach currently. I want a couple of acres, designbuild a house the way I want. So I gotta start somewhere.Then there is the I dont know where to begin any of this. Never looked into it on my own as I had no interest. Why? I lived at home for most of my young adult life. My father was a quadriplegic due to MS, and I had tons of freedom. Then I moved in with my ex-girlfriend who bought a place while we were together and said she had bought may of homes due to being ex-Air forcethe moving around. So I just let her do all the work and didnt pay attention. Spent nearly all my saving getting out of that relationship. Now I currently rent my first for the first time in my life and it does not feel like home because I dont own it. I also didnt how to go about renting. Lucky I came across a landlord who is pretty laid back.I have also noticed a few other house popping up for sell around the area as I am out and about. I also would like to mention that I try to be frugal but doesnt always work out. Took me 3 months of looking to find the place I am at now which blows everything I looked at out of the water and was lower rent than all of the ones I looked at prior.Thanks for your time.  <response>: Dont buy a house thats been on the market this long as your first house. It sounds like a nightmare. 