Keep Your Eyes Open
July 5, 2008
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.
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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Did you find out why there are three?
I took a listing that had a spot on the ceiling. I have a moisture meter. It didn’t make me an expert, it just made me be the source of the source. You probably out to have someone look at that spot, it makes my machine angry.
the lot had been split into 3 parcels. It looked like a nice house in the middle of a good sized lot, but it was really on a little narrow rectangle of land, flanked by the two new parcels. sold separately, od course.
Way to sleuth it out!
Nice site Kelley. I just stumbled across it through a google image search on “realtor” funnily enough, but always like to commend people who do a good job (I know what it’s like!).
What could the 3 water meters mean, by the way?
Hi Mark - the lot had been split into 3, but the developer ran out of money before he could build the other two homes. It looked like a house on a nice big lot, but it was actually a house on a small lot, with two adjacent parcels being sold separately.
Ah! Makes sense… thanks.