Keep Your Comments To Yourself When Touring Homes

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A good rule of thumb when you’re looking at homes as a buyer and you’re walking through is to keep your thoughts and your comments to yourself until you’re out of the house and talking to your realtor. 90% of people have some sort of recording device whether that’s an Alexa, Siri HomePod, cameras, or something where they can record and listen in on any conversation. Whether or not that’s right…it doesn’t matter. It means that your sellers could be listening in and if you say something negative about the home, they could be offended and if they hear that you are falling in love with the property. They could also use that against you. So, when you’re walking through, use it to your advantage and keep your mouth shut, until you and your Realtor can debrief later.

Simple Steps To Get Your Home Ready To Sell

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When you’re getting ready to sell your home, there’s a few simple things that you can do to make sure that it shows in the best possible way. So decluttering is going to include putting away all your kitchen utensils and cleaning off all of your kitchen counters. You’re gonna want to clean off your kitchen fridge, take all the magnets off and all the kids pictures too, stuff like that. Get all that cleaned up. Then anything that’s bigger than a cantaloupe you want to make sure put in a drawer or cabinet. Just get it off the counters. Then you’re going to want to de-personalize your home by taking down all the personal pictures and stuff like that and put away all the little knickknacks that you might have around your home. And then a final tip I like to give people is anytime you see a little blemish or something like on a wall scuff marks something make sure that those get painted or cleaned off with touch up paint or whatever because you don’t want those shown up in any pictures or people noticing that stuff when they come through. And that is how you can get your home ready to sell.

Red Flags For Home Buyers

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As a buyer it is super important that you pay attention to red flags when you’re touring homes. Some of these things could be: a lot of homes for sale on the street; really busy streets; railroad tracks in front of the house or nearby; damp and musty smells in the home; strong odors or air fresheners; water stains on the ceiling of cracked foundation walls or stains on the foundation walls as well. As well as missing downspouts or downspout extensions or any standing water in the yard or sloping back into the foundation. Any of these things that you find may be red flags, and they might also not be a problem. So just pay attention to them and look into them.

Why It’s Important To Attend Your Home Inspection

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When you’re buying a home, it’s really important that you attend your home inspection. Not only is it good for the inspection part, but it will give you an opportunity just to become more familiar with the house. You’ll be able to go in and take some measurements so you can kind of plan out your furniture and how you’re going to live there. And then also in the last hour or so of the inspection, you’ll be able to talk to the home inspector and they’ll be able to show you around and you’ll be able to understand the report and anything that they find in the report that can help explain and answer questions for you much better than if you weren’t there.

Your First Home Doesn’t Have To Be Your Dream Home

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Your first home does not need to be your dream home. In fact, in today’s market with the inventory the way it is, it might just be better to go into the home buying process with the idea that you want to look for a place that you can build some equity that will be good for renters in the future. Or that would be good to turn around and sell then in two to five years or something like that. Then go ahead and sell that property and move into your dream home. Or even better would be to rent that property out and use that income to help pay for your new place.

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