All good advice here.

Find a good agent to represent you.

Get pre approved by your potential mortgage company.

Have a decent down payment in cash ready.

Never ever ever ever sign a deal with a per diem penalty. No matter what.

Make sure you understand what your taxes and insurance will be. Also check for FEMA flood maps. My home had a paved patio and 6 inches of it touched a XX flood zone, they wanted 15k a year for mandatory flood insurance. I took a sledge hammer to the concrete and poof, no more flood insurance requirement.

What the current resident pays in taxes is NOT what you will pay…research it.

Don’t buy a house within 1 block of a school …school traffic is terrible.

Get a full inspection…not just what’s required.

Good luck

Have you looked at just having a dhcp hot standby.

https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-03-20-set-up-dhcp-failover-high-availability/view

It offers better redundancy than just 1 host. Super easy to setup too.

Best thing to do here is buy a Network interface card with 2 ports that support a floating IP address for HA. each interface can plug into a separate lan switch for HA.

Last time I did this, broadcomm was a good choice.

I would not run any core services on WiFi only.

How many users ? How large a network? Could you offload dhcp/DNS to other devices to improve resiliency?

I’m at a loss as to how this would work consistently. If 2 interfaces share an IP without bonding, then only 1 would answer the ARP request from anothet host trying to establish a connection. If your system allows same static on 2 devices on same land, then other hosts talk to whoever establishes a session or answers the ARP request.

I’m curious why you would want this at all?

Next version of this should be called ‘Son of Anton’