Buyer Edge™ · Solo Agent Academy
By the fourth house they blur together. Score each one the evening you see it and you'll still be able to tell them apart in three weeks.
Write these before you see anything. Priorities set after a viewing tend to describe the house you just saw.
Things you'd genuinely turn a house down for. Be strict — everything can't be a must-have.
All in, not just the mortgage.
If it's more than one of you, fill this in separately and compare.
Why score at all
Not to make the decision for you. A house is partly a feeling, and that feeling is real information. The problem is that memory rearranges things — by the fourth viewing the one with the good light has become the one with the good kitchen, and you start comparing houses that no longer exist.
Scoring the same day fixes that. Then you can trust the feeling, because you also have the record.
Do this the evening you view it. One to ten, quickly — first instinct is usually the honest one.
Two bars each. The blue one is what the house scored. The pink one is how you felt about it. They are not always the same house.
Six questions. If any of them makes you pause, that pause is worth more than another viewing.
One last thing
No house scores well on everything. The one you buy will have something wrong with it, and knowing what that thing is beforehand is the difference between a compromise you chose and a surprise you resent.
Take this to your agent and talk through the gaps. That conversation is what they're actually for.