Keep Your Eyes Open

Question from a client today: “Okay Kelley - what do you see here that I don’t?”

You go into a couple thousand homes, you start to see things, little red flags, small oddities that set off alarms in your head.

This is a personal favorite from a couple of weeks ago.  This was just off the driveway to a newly constructed home in the middle of an unsubdivided area in Central Tucson.

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That’s 3 water meters.  For a single house.  Something not quite right there.

Part of an agent’s duty is to walk through the house with eyes wide open, to notice those little things, to bring them up to their buyers and sellers, so that they can make good decisions.  While agents aren’t home inspectors or a trade specialist like a plumber or electrician, we do have a lot of experience with homes, and often spot little indicators of what may or may not be a big problem.

Like spotting 3 water meters on a single house.  Or termite tubes on a foundation at night using only the illumination from a phone.  Not to brag or anything…

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