If you’re house-hunting and want to do it Stefen-style, here is what you’ll need:
1) A good agent (me) who will let you control the pace
2) A digital camera or smart phone for taking photos/short videos.
3) My handy-dandy house hunting checklist. Print a stack of them so you have one for each house you plan to visit. Print out a few extras in case you tour an open house or add a last minute one to the list.
4) A stapler. Attach the completed checklist to the listing provided by the agent as well as any flyers or information you pick up for each house.
*To help ensure the success, here is the process you will want to implement:
1.) Examine the neighborhood. If good, tour the home.
2.) Take photos to help jar our memory if it ended up a front runner.
3.) Make notes on the spreadsheet about pros and cons.
4.) Rate each house on a scale of 1 to 10.
5.) Revisit the front runners for follow-up walk-thrus; talk to some of the neighbors, if possible.
6.) Go to the house AT NIGHT. You learn so much about a neighborhood when people should be home and sleeping. In a neighborhood with garages, seeing a lot of cars parked in the street isn’t a good sign. How about noise levels? You may notice there is poor lighting or even see street lights that beam into your house that you wouldn’t have noticed otherwise.
7.) Make an offer
8.) Become owner of a new home.
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