If you are planning to purchase a new home in 2011, now is the time to start getting ready.  The new year is just around the corner.  Here is a good article I found at the Trulia web site which will help you get ready for your search.

5 Things to Do Now in Order to Buy a Home in 2011

There are lots of purchases that are highly prone to impulse buying: shoes on sale, puppies at the pound, and carrot cupcakes with cream cheese buttercream frosting come instantly to mind. (But that's just me.)

But houses?  Not so much. Savvy, regret-free homebuying can take weeks or months of financial and lifestyle research and planning.  If you want 2011 to be the year you become a homeowner, here are 5 things you should be doing, as we speak.

Read the entire article here