buy a friend house

[Vish S.]

Hi,

My friend is planning to sell a house for ~220K. The house is in Irving texas. Currently, I am staying in a rented apartment near to that place wherein I pay 1750 per month + utilities extra. So question is does it make sense to buy a house? 

also, I am planning to buy directly from him without a realtor ? how much this going to save us? or how difficult it would be to close the deal end-to-end?