By: Ted Valentine
Good idea. We did that, but then you still need to process the data. Otherwise you just have a stack of papers. Because I’m a nerd and like to quantify things, I made a spreadsheet with everything we...
View ArticleBy: Jason
My wife and I did this too for our last househunting experience. In addition I made a simple spreadsheet with properties we were interested in for rows and features in the columns. I also weights for...
View ArticleBy: donna jean
We used a similar sheet for the first few houses, but they included lots of technical stuff that would normally be addressed in a house inspection. After needing to see one house more than twice before...
View ArticleBy: Andamom
This makes sense if you are in a market with options of places that actually contain homes with features you want. Here in NYC, if a place is financially within my means, I’ll know before I visit...
View ArticleBy: Robert
I would encourage anyone not to let one thing distract you. When we were house shopping, my wife and I would go to a neighborhood with our bikes, and ride around looking at the outside of houses to get...
View ArticleBy: Dawn
We did this as well, but even more helpful was if a house had all the features we agreed were musts, upon getting in the car, each of us would rate it without showing the other with 1 being I’d hate...
View ArticleBy: Jim
If you’re looking at that many houses, some method of photo / video recording is going to be extra-helpful. We used a small camcorder the first time we went house-hunting, and it was perfect for...
View ArticleBy: !wanda
My mom made a sheet like this for me and my friend when we were looking at colleges (with different categories, obviously). It’s a good method for making a choice among complex objects.
View ArticleBy: Lisa
I suggest lots of space for additional comments as there will be unique things about house designs you will discover that are very neat. The kind of stuff you never could have thought of that as...
View ArticleBy: Mohammed (UAE)
Also worth noting that a house is a long term investment, so the design/layout/space etc should be defined on the worksheet for now and for the future. This obviously depends on how long you intend to...
View ArticleBy: The Big Saver
This is an EXCELLENT idea and one I definitely plan to use when I start looking for my home. Thnx!
View ArticleBy: stacey
i have a big question my dad bought a house about 5 yr ago and i have been living it for that long and now he wants to put it in my name(and i have been paying rent) what happens when that happens?? do...
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