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Clicky Poll for Buyers
Question for buyers.... if you get to a house and decide pretty quickly that it's not the house for you, do you continue to walk though the entire home or do you leave right away?[Poll]
Re: Clicky Poll for Buyers
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I voted stay and finish. We looked at every house top to bottom, even if I knew from pulling in the driveway that it wasn't "my" house. As first time home buyers we aren't the smartest most educated people. By walking through some of the crappier houses we saw things, and things were pointed out that were red flags. Dip in the floor, freshly painted wall behind the laundry room, etc. It made things much easier as we looked at houses we liked that we could see things that could be bad.
We usually won't walk thru if there is something that is blantant and we KNOW we'd never consider it. I don't like wasting our agent's time.
Just last weekend, we drove up to a home that was at the top of a steeeeep hill and knew that I wouldn't want to spend the rest on my life not being able to see the cars that were approaching the driveway - not to mention having to deal with icy roads and a hill! We didn't even get out of the car, but instead turned around to go to the next house.
In another case our REA messed up our showing time and the owners were home. DH and I felt really uncomfortable but the owners and REA insisted we still come in. We had really liked the listing but once inside it was clear it was tiny and not well layed out. We both knew it wasn't for us but with the owners there and watching us we felt like we couldn't say it. I feel bad now because I was really new at the whole process and should have insisted we reschedule the showing.
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we were pretty quick in house tours. I think DH and I knew really clearly about what we were looking for (or not) so we didn't spend a ton of time in any house... even the ones we really liked.
When we were looking for re-sell (before we decided to build), I think we maybe spent 30 minutes in the house we were seriously considering placing an offer on.
All the other houses were 15 minutes, in and out. When we could go that quickly, there wasn't any reason (to me) to not look at the whole house. I guess I'm nosy, too.
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We usually walk the rest of the house. Many times, I will say "no" right away but H will like it, so we will look at it for him and to see if he proves me wrong
If we show up and somewhere is an absolute dump, that's a different story. Then I'd just leave.
In those houses we generally did a quick walk through the rest. I'm not really sure why but in the end I feel like every house you look at gives you a better idea of what you do and don't like and helps make it more and more clear. Why not look if you're already there?