Acquaintance with a private house on the secondary market. The first "bells" so as not to waste time on inspection

  • Dec 11, 2020
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"Move in and live" is a phrase you often hear from a real estate agent. And in reality, the house can be very carefully prepared for sale and all flaws are masked from the buyer. Exactly cosmetically, but not thoroughly. Any already built house is always a mystery, it is impossible to check everything, including how well the building codes are observed and whether there are defects in wall structures or foundations.

If you type "how to prepare a house for sale" in any search engine, the Internet will offer you a bunch of options for what to do with certain shortcomings. Of course, this information is worth studying for you, as a buyer, in order to understand what you can face.

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When you first get to know the house, you shouldn't care about interior items, since you need to pay attention only for design features. Nowadays, sellers often turn to pre-sale specialists and they, in turn, suggest a marafet, buying cheap rugs, towels in the bathrooms, flowers in every room - just to "throw dust in the eyes" with warmth and comfort, and if such things are noticed, they may be hidden flaws.

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As a rule, flaws are masked with cheap materials that are often striking. For example, a decent renovation has been made in the room, which in appearance has served the owners for 5 or even 10 years, and suddenly fresh cheap photo wallpaper is pasted over good wallpaper on one of the walls. Obviously something is hiding ...

Of course, in the ideal case, the owners should provide a project for the house, but in 90% of cases this is not done, so we are already buying a "pig in a poke".

First of all, you need to pay attention to the base of the house and look at the basement, basement or cellar. Of course, no one does the digging under the foundation, the owners always oppose. But, when examining, to ensure the integrity of the foundation, it is important to carefully consider all the corners of the building, the basement of the house around the entire perimeter and window openings, it is these parts that indicate the slightest deformation the foundations of the house.

If no cracks are observed, you can proceed to further inspection, otherwise you can turn around and leave.

The ideal time of the year to shop is spring. It is immediately clear where the site is heated and from which side to pay attention to the house.

The second place is the attic. If there is no access to the under-roof space, then we carefully inspect the ceiling and the adjoining of all external walls of the house to the ceiling for leaks from a roof leak.

During inspection, special attention should be paid to the smell of dampness and mold. It is required to roughly estimate the microclimate inside the house in comparison with the weather outside, if it is stuffy - bad whether ventilation is coping or not at all, cold or hot - the question of house insulation (there will be extra costs after purchases).

A strong aromatic smell of a freshener in a bathroom may indicate a masked smell of sewage or dampness (fungus).

It is recommended to go through all individual metering devices and, ideally, check the readings on receipts in the winter - this will clearly make it clear how much gas or energy is spent on heating.

Additionally, you should pay attention to things like flowers or interior items that are in the center of the rooms. Very often, they are placed before your arrival exactly where the floor creaks :-))) This is really so!

After the inspection, if you really liked the house, you can always tell the owner that you will come tomorrow with an expert builder. It is better to do so, but if there is none, then by the expression of the owner's face and emotions in most cases it will be clear whether there are moments that are hidden from you.

That's all, I really hope that the article has become useful to you!

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