By Living Room Realty, April 5, 2021
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Prepare your Feet
Most homes are somebody’s home and as you enter you might see a mound of shoe-coverings, this is the time to ask if you’ve prepared your feet. When coming and going from home to home, you’re going to be confronted with a number of terrains: carpeted, concrete garages, wood decks, construction sites, highly-trafficked floors, unkempt kitchens, etc. For the safety of your feet, and the speediness of your home-touring experience, wear shoes that won’t tear holes in the fabric coverings or that are quick to remove and put on.
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Feed Your Body!
You may have seen a lot of homes on a map search and thought that you’d be able to get through a dozen in one day. Unfortunately, the reality is that home touring requires traveling between rooms and homes, and deep contemplation on multiple variables of benefit or deficit, while going up and down and up and down stairs or hills. Eat food before you tour, drink water between houses, and pack snacks if you are looking at more than two houses. Last thing that you need is a sluggish body while weighing your preferences between a tandem garage and a detached garage or pondering the potential of any home in need of improvement.
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Somebody is Listening
Current smart devices are equipped with many perks for home safety, homeowners may be parked on the street if you’re the only/last appointment, and occasionally owners are unable to leave the house for health reasons. Presuming that your comments are heard by the owner can save embarrassment if you aren’t overheard complaining about their furnishings, their sense/lack of style, or your private finances and offer plans. I suggest making comments when a thought crosses your mind to bookmark when you had a thought that you’d rather not share with a seller, such as “I just had a thought, remind me to tell you later”.
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Prepare Your Mind
Time wasted looking at properties that would never work is time that you can’t get back. Prepare your mind for being decisive, contemplate words for ending a tour when you realize you’re just looking at the next room purely out of curiosity. You might enjoy looking at curiosities, we all do, but keeping your mind sharp means limiting time spent exploring a home you’ve already made a decision about. Sometimes, seeing one more room helps, but being frugal about the time allotted to curiosity can give more time to deliberate on a home that meets your needs.
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CoVid or Not
Do not touch things in other people’s homes. Current restrictions help protect most vulnerable groups and the unvaccinated from many diseases, so wear your masks, sanitize your hands, and keep your touring posse minimal. Last thing that any0ne wants to experience is hospital observation after the inspection period. Opening up your personal residence might not be a choice for many homeowners/tenants, and respecting what little privacy remains is a fairly minimal request, and we can accommodate by not opening cabinets or thumbing through curious collections.
