Thoughts on buying a plane

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+# Buying a plane
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+There's all sorts of guides from people on how to do this. Here's my process.
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+## Deciding on a kind of plane to buy 
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+- Figure out your "mission" (what will encompass the 90% of flights you plan to do?)
+  - For me, most of my planned flights are cross country flights. In particular, I have a desire to make a 410 nm trip as much as I can (as opposed to flying commercially, which will still be a portion of the trips). I'd prefer this trip to take less than 3 hours each time I do it. Putting that in numbers, I want something with at least 500 nm range (not including reserves) that can fly at least 140 kts true.
+  - For multiple reasons, I want something equipped for IFR.
+- Nice to haves:
+  - Control stick. I just prefer it to a yoke.
+  - Glass panel.
+  - Low wing. They're just cooler.
+  - Faster is better, of course.
+- Unnecessary:
+  - I don't need to carry passengers. There's no need for me to own something that has 4 seats. I'll be perfectly fine with a 2 seater. I could also be fine with a single seater, but that makes getting a checkout much more annoying.
+  - Off airport operations, while dope, are not for me.
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+So, with that in mind, I essentially am skipping all the trainers, because they simply don't have all the range (nor are they fast enough to make this flight in less than 3 and a half hours).
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+With all this, I'm probably going to either get something experimental, a Grumman Tiger, or a Mooney.
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+## Deciding on which particular plane to buy
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+My questions, on how to go from staring at listings on barnstormers to owning a plane.
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+- How do I decide whether to reach out to the seller?
+- How heavily should I favor more local planes to less local?
+  - Very.
+- How do I find an A&P to do the prebuy?
+  - Like, how do I even find one?
+  - How do I make sure they're trustworthy/do a good job?
+- How much will a prebuy run me? I expect around 3-5k, probably.
+  - From what I've read, a prebuy essentially turns in to an annual.
+- How do I find a CFI to give me a checkout in the plane?
+- If I don't have the cash up front, how do I get a loan for it?
+  - Yeah, in this economy, I'd much prefer to have as a few outstanding loans as possible.
+- Anything else I should know on the buying front?
+- Once I actually buy it, how do I find a place to store it?
+  - Is getting a hangar worth it in SMO? (Probably not, tie down is fine, though)
+- How do I get insurance/who should I get insurance from?
+  - AOPA's recommendation.
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+So much I don't know.