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Some Good Questions Buyers Should be Asking

A few weeks ago I wrote about the Questions Buyers Should be Asking.

This year, Reddit provides another great discussion that should be required reading for buyersWhat is something you wish you’d checked before buying a property?

I’m glad to see one of the suggestions is one that I have been recommending to buyer clients for yearssnaking the sewer line from the house to the street.

One of the roles I fill for my clients is helping them ask the questions they don’t know to ask; I call them my “dumb questions” on behalf of my clients.

If you’re in the midst of buying or thinking about buying a house in Charlottesville, the reddit thread is a useful discussion (and most of the topics are relevant to our market).

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Jim Duncan has been helping buyers and sellers in Charlottesville’s neighborhoods for 25 years. Get local insight born of experience.

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When Should Buyers Pull their Credit (when buying a home)?

When Should Buyers Pull their Credit (when buying a home)?

I asked Matt Hodges with Gray Fox Mortgage  a couple simple questions a lot of my buyer clients have, and thought you'd find the answers useful. When should buyers let their lender pull their credit? Regardless of when a buyer wants to purchase, if they…

Artificial Housing Inventory in Charlottesville

Artificial Housing Inventory in Charlottesville

I'm guilty of this, too. For houses that come on the market in Charlottesville and the Charlottesville area, what I'm seeing is this Home is listed as a Coming Soon on Monday/Tuesday so that we Realtors can tee up our buyers. House is activated on…

Chimney Inspections: A Good Idea

Chimney Inspections: A Good Idea

I'm recommending chimney inspections to my buyer clients now. Just like I started advising septic inspections around 2010, I think chimney inspections should be default inspections -- or at least suggesting them should be my default now. More often than not, if I ask an agent if…

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Jim Duncan has been helping buyers and sellers in Charlottesville’s neighborhoods for 25 years. Get local insight born of experience.