Standing Out in Ohio Podcast
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Standing Out in Ohio Podcast
What Does a Long Home Inspection Mean for Ohio Agents, Buyers and Sellers
Ever wondered what sets the pros apart in Ohio's teeming real estate waters? Join Jim and the office deity, Laura, as we navigate the bustling property markets and unveil what it takes to shine bright. In our latest episode, we go beyond the 'For Sale' signs, revealing the art of standing out amidst fierce competition, and sharing nuggets of wisdom on dealing with the ebb and flow of the industry through the leaner months.
The length of time at a home inspection does not necessary spell doom for the home. There are many factors, most not bad that can make it last longer.
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Speaker 2:Hey everybody, welcome to the Standing Out in Ohio podcast. This is Jim and you know, with me is the office goddess Laura.
Speaker 3:Hello everyone.
Speaker 2:All right, so starting to get busy again.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:This February, which is good. January usually sucks, December usually sucks for everybody, which here in Ohio that's normal. That's part of the course you should be planning for that, budgeting for that, but something that came up the other day. Somebody was just asking. Actually, I was at a house yesterday and I was thinking about it. We were. It was a large place.
Speaker 3:Yes, very large over 6,000 square feet.
Speaker 2:It was kind of set up oddly as there was a lot of little nooks and crannies and extra rooms hidden not hidden, but like branched off of other places A great place for hide and seek for kids. Oh, it would, it would, but so because of that it did not flow well, even though I followed the sequence. It did not flow well because it was, like always, another area and there were four furnaces. So that was. That was low factor.
Speaker 2:That adds a little bit of extra time, of course, but the thought was and I had I've had agents asked this before and I don't know if that's directed to me or there's conversation I heard about the people the question is, if inspection takes a long time, is that a bad sign or indicator about the home's condition?
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Speaker 2:All right. So most homes. It depends on the size of the condition, of course, but two and a half hours, two and a half to three hours Usually how it goes. There are a lot of factors that go into how long it takes to do a home inspection.
Speaker 3:Very true.
Speaker 2:You have overall the condition of the house. If it's rough and there's a note you got to make at every three feet you walk, that's going to take time. Yeah, that's going to take a lot more time and maybe none of those things are tragic. No, not major issues, but they still need noted. They still. They still should be noted. So you got the number of issues. It could be the size of the house.
Speaker 3:Like it was yesterday.
Speaker 2:Like it was yesterday, or I've had even houses that were not all that massive but somehow they didn't flow right, like sometimes these smaller houses, and I'm thinking some like some condos. I go out in the garage and there's a closet there that has the electrical system, the water heater and it has the furnace all in one spot. It's so easy to get those things done quickly and not even move around at all, so it's very efficient to do those Place. The other day, two furnaces in the basement, not even next to each other, they're way you know way different sides opposite sides of the basement and then they're two upstairs that were, I guess they're a closet like thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, going off into the annex base. So it's just just a different situation. How things are organized, it's not right or wrong, it just takes a little time. So Things that can make a home session take longer conditions, it could be a lot of bad. You know, not bad, but a lot of things are not ideal or things you need to make note of. How the or house is organized, then the big unknown is the talkativeness.
Speaker 3:Or client, or the agent.
Speaker 2:Yes, because sometimes they have lots of questions, which is fine because this is the time for them to ask their questions.
Speaker 3:But if they are asking questions, they should expect it to take longer and then it's not necessarily a problem because they're asking questions, but it's going to take longer because they're asking questions.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, and sometimes the question that they're asking is merely clarification and it isn't making the client feel better because, oh okay, they totally explained it to me. Maybe the client needed explained in a different way. Then they, because, you know, some people have different learning styles. Yeah, some people are very visual, some people more tactical. Where they need to touch it can aesthetic. Then you do this stuff. Oh, people like oh, okay, and sometimes I go yeah, they I'll explain something. Oh, okay, I'm like you sure about that?
Speaker 2:I don't know. I'm like all right, come with me, I'll show you. So you got something. You got to walk them through and help them out with things. But that is not a bad thing Because actually it isn't making the client feel more comfortable.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, they've got a better feel for the house and their skill set and what they can do, or you know what they have to have done.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep, and I've seen some agents nervous Cuz it, cuz I don't know. They only expected to be in and out there in 15 minutes. I don't know kind of specials I've had before, but I've had a day before when they're only can hour she's like. So you almost done, mike.
Speaker 3:No no.
Speaker 2:If you've had before doing it in an hour is a shitty inspector. That's a shitty inspector. There's no way they can do a fishing job and protect your client the way they should in that little amount of time. But because somebody's asking questions, I mean the time in the house doesn't really.
Speaker 3:It's not indicative of issues. Is what he's trying to get at?
Speaker 2:No, not at all. But what I was thinking was somebody's that well, in a class that we teach, we talk about being nervous at a house Is can be contagious, just like yawning Somebody yaws in a room is contagious. Everybody starts yawning or coughing. I've heard that before as well, but usually yawning is everybody else getting sleep as well. If you're a real estate agent and you're nervous at the home inspection, you're going to make the client nervous.
Speaker 3:Well, and not only that, but you're going to make the client wonder what you know, that they don't, and what you're holding back from them.
Speaker 2:And we have seen that people completely cancel contracts on a house because the agent was nervous and was hiding.
Speaker 3:This is the one thing about the agent hid or tried to hide a little little issue.
Speaker 2:But because that client is like nope, lost trust in the agent, probably thought there's the agent going to hide this little thing. What else are they hiding?
Speaker 3:Well, they lost. So they lost the sale of that and any other potential sales, because she went out and found a new agent and used us two weeks later for a new house.
Speaker 2:Yes, so, and there's another fact that affects how long it takes to do a house if they add additional services.
Speaker 3:Very true, especially like the chimney or the sewer scopes, because you've got to get all of that set up to be able to get up into the chimney or down into the chimney. You've got to take off the pipe or get to the the clean out for the pipe, and it can take some time. That can add at least a half an hour for each service Freeze. And radon is usually a half an hour add on because you've got to do the diagram and you've got to draw.
Speaker 2:Oh, and the house the other day had a had a crawl space. It was like all right crawl space. Now I got to open up that hatch and this hatch I unscrew it, I'll screw the hatch, climb inside of there and pretty much all around my hands and knees, give them one side to the other. Then he kind of go back. It's so much faster on the open unfinished basement, yes, or so much faster. And then there's another factor finished basements versus crawl spaces.
Speaker 2:Yes, cross space at time If it's basements finished. We will take the moisture me around every foot or so, around the carpet, around the edge. Just look for moisture Just to make sure that it's not correct, and it's not that it's going to screw the deal up. I've never seen, I don't think I've ever seen, a deal gets ruined because they found moisture in the basement so high.
Speaker 3:Ohio.
Speaker 2:A lot of people almost expect it, but when we can go, hey, we took the moisture meter along the finish area of the basement. Everything was dry, which is usually the case, or maybe there's one little area they feel good about that. So, really, if you were reframing your head and then repeat that this to the client, I'll go. That doesn't spend so much time. They're doing a really thorough job for you.
Speaker 3:You're definitely going to have all the information you need to make a good decision for yourself.
Speaker 2:Not only are you a good agent in that client's eyes because you're happy that the inspector is spending time to make sure they're getting good information, but you can, by saying that you're going to relieve the client's fears that maybe there's a lot of issues and that's why they're taking so long. There's just, there's just way too many factors in how long it takes to get a home inspection done. Now us will have the report done later on that same day. Using the evening kind of depends on the spectrum schedule, because once again, you can have a special in the morning, but if you have one or two inspections that afternoon as well, you're not getting that thing out that quick. You got other things you need to do before you get done, but that's only one. Like the other day I did one in the morning. I think I had sound up like one o'clock, something like that.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I think that's it for it. Can you think of anything else that would affect how long it takes to do in home inspection Getting in, if it takes too long to get into the house?
Speaker 3:Oh, we've had that where people look the agents like I don't want to put a box on it, I'll meet you there, I'll meet you there, and we get there no agent. We call, we text, there's nothing until you're like a half an hour or an hour into it. By that time You're sitting in the car. The exterior is done.
Speaker 2:Well. I forgot well, that's another thing, and then they go alright. Hey, this was like 9 to 12. You guys gonna be done at 11 o'clock, mike.
Speaker 3:No, you know, for an hour.
Speaker 2:No, first we didn't get in for a half hour. We're delayed in this and like no, it's three, it's so soon noon. But that kind of makes the agent look bad if they're trying to rush the inspection and the clients there and sees that. That's bad, that's not a way to get referrals.
Speaker 3:No, it is not yeah or trust.
Speaker 2:If you don't want the specters to spend a lot of time. You know everyone come across like they won't get the specter in and out of here because I don't want them find anything for you.
Speaker 3:That's not a very good that's not a lot or attitude to have.
Speaker 2:That's not a long-term plan for success in selling homes, that's for sure. So I think it's about it. On this one, yeah, especially takes longer than normal. It's not, it's not a big deal and there's so many factors involved in this right and I know, like the house the other day, nothing it took longer than planned, but there's really nothing unusual like that is unexpected, nothing really bizarre now, it was a nice house. It took forever to run to go from one in the house to the other, so that was another factor.
Speaker 3:I was a tired puppy by the end of the day, so if I walk, let's just say if I and I move, I walk kind of quickly.
Speaker 2:Let's say I did I Move two miles an hour when I'm walking, which is kind of a decent pace. It's not fast walk, I think it's normal walking pace. I Walk like eight to ten, ten miles, equivalent going, but up and down stairs and roof, I mean just just a roof. I was easy. A half hour just on that roof, I think. Well, I was a huge roof. Well, yeah so it all takes time, but that's weak if you want quality. It's gonna take time, but nothing too crazy, nope.
Speaker 3:Everybody have a nice night. Yep, bye, bye.
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