Showing Homes: What Buyers See

Promising a fresh take on real estate, your favorite hosts, Trish and Tiana, are back! We're kicking off this episode of Vegas Realty Check with a heartfelt thank you for your support during our annual Trunk or Treat event. We saw so many new faces! As we move into the real estate realm, let's chat about the rising inventory and declining interest rates that are causing quite a stir. But what really has our attention is the groundbreaking Burnett versus NAR lawsuit, where the National Association of Realtors was found liable. We're itching to share our thoughts on how this verdict is going to send shockwaves through our industry!

On to the realities of our trade. We give you an insider's look into the market conditions and how the recent lawsuit verdict affects us as realtors. The low interest rates have resulted in a surge in listings, pushing the inventory to new heights. But what does this mean for you? We break down a buyer's perspective during showings and we can't stress enough how important it is for sellers to take a step back during this process. A pleasant buying experience can make all the difference in this competitive market!

Wrapping up, we're sharing some potent advice for all you home buyers out there. During viewings, keep an eye out for indicators like water damage and the state of insulation. Never underestimate the power of a thorough home inspection. We also dive into the role market conditions play in making your decision. This episode is brimming with beneficial insights and our candid take on the burning issues in real estate. Ready for a reality check? Join us as we call it like we see it!

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:17

Hey, good morning. Thank you for joining us right here on Vegas Realty Check. I'm Trish Williams. We had a crazy start this morning. Sorry about that, that was my bad.

Speaker 2: 0:28

I'm sorry, trish, I totally knocked you off right as the intro was coming on, all right. So, trish Williams, vegas Realty Check co -host Tiana Carroll, here we are.

Speaker 1: 0:39

Here we are. We are back after Halloween. We had a big event this last week. Yeah, it was great the Trunker. Tree that we put on every year at our office, so that was fun. There was a big turnout.

Speaker 2: 0:51

It was so much fun. There was so many people, the kids are so cute, everybody was so appreciative. It was just a really great time.

Speaker 1: 0:59

Yeah, we had a great time and for those of you that came out to join us, join us, thank you. Thank you, it's great to see you, and we do this every year.

Speaker 2: 1:09

I was going to say, we get a lot of regulars that come through. Absolutely, we start to see a lot of faces. There was a lot of new faces, but there was a lot of side members that came through and were like, hey, thanks for doing this, and they were so sweet and appreciative and we're so appreciative of them. Thanks for coming out. It'd be nothing if they didn't show up, right?

Speaker 1: 1:27

Yes, absolutely, and we do these events quarterly. Different themes, different things.

Speaker 2: 1:32

So we have an Easter egg hunt and a pool party, a carnival, a trunker treat, yeah, all kinds of stuff, all kinds of fun.

Speaker 1: 1:40

We're always playing together some events just to show our appreciation, say, hi, we need to meet some people that we haven't met before, that maybe follow us, and things like that. So that's always good. So what's going on in?

Speaker 2: 1:53

real estate, real estate Gosh. There was barely any news that happened this week, nothing groundbreaking or shattering.

Speaker 1: 2:01

That was a lie. Okay, good, Okay yeah that was all sarcasm.

Speaker 2: 2:05

If you don't know me well, that's my choice of conversation Sarcasm.

Speaker 1: 2:10

Yes.

Speaker 2: 2:10

We do have inventory rising, though we're going to talk numbers.

Speaker 1: 2:13

Yeah, inventory has gone up a little bit. We're getting. We're almost at 4,000 now. We're at 3995 in single family.

Speaker 2: 2:20

Yep, yep, yep, yep, and we got 387 sold.

Speaker 1: 2:24

Yep. Price decreases are dropping we're at 430 and price decreases I've seen a lot more movement this week.

Speaker 2: 2:30

I did. Yeah, this was a. This was a busy week to 10 days. Yes, no, absolutely A lot going on and you had some headlines on interest rates strapping. Yes, interest rates, we're getting busy.

Speaker 1: 2:43

Yes, the Fed and the Fed met yesterday and no changes there. They did not continue to raise rates this time, so they held off again, which is wonderful, and rates have come down quite, quite a bit. I mean I'd say about half a point on average, yeah, over the past couple days. So you know, on FHA and VA you're below sevens. Now you're in the high sixes.

Speaker 2: 3:07

Yep. So if you're out shopping you can walk in that lower rate.

Speaker 1: 3:10

Yeah, so I think that has cost the motivation for some buyers. I mean, let's be frank, like these days you're talking anything with a five or six. Look really good.

Speaker 2: 3:21

Those are the facts. When we were up over eight I was like, oh, so this is going to be a rough ride, yeah.

Speaker 1: 3:26

That didn't last long. Yeah, cause, like when you hit eight, you're already, like we're almost at nine. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 3:33

Yeah, it's a mindset, even though we're like a what? Seven and a half seven point two, five two, we're, we're.

Speaker 1: 3:39

we're hovering around seven and a half today.

Speaker 2: 3:41

Yeah, so it's only a half point. We're like, yay, we did it.

Speaker 1: 3:47

Yeah, cause we hit last week, last week or the week before we hit over eight. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 3:52

Yeah. That was a rough morning?

Speaker 1: 3:55

Yeah, it was. It was a rough morning Exactly. I'd sellers calling me like, oh my gosh, what's this mean? I was like, yeah, it means, it means people are going to be weary. So another real estate news. This is not my favorite topic but, yes, you avoided talking about it. I have avoided talking about it just because, again, it's such a it's such a complex subject and, yeah, I mean, if you want my opinion, I think it's bullshit. But but and there it's the commission's lawsuit, which is the Burnett Burnett versus NAR. We had a verdict come in which found NAR liable. Yep, and big old, hefty, liable.

Speaker 1: 4:44

Yeah, yeah. There's one thing about this which I have not fact checked this, so I may be giving incorrect information. Just, I've been reading. I'm oh my gosh, it's everywhere, like all the realtors on Facebook are talking about it, all the news. Yeah, there's all these people and everyone. The jury met and then, like two and a half, two and a half hours later, they come up with a verdict. And then you know people were talking about, well, who is this jury? And somebody had mentioned and again this may not be a fact, because I haven't verified this or even know how I could verify this but someone had mentioned that the jury was made up of like 100% renters.

Speaker 2: 5:21

So it's like maybe they're just spinning information to give a reason on why it was. But I was just watching the pop up news stories that were happening last night and they kept saying like you have to pay this, it's a month, you know it's a conspiracy and you have to pay that buyer agent. But we, in this valley at least, we always know that it's all negotiable, yeah.

Speaker 1: 5:43

I've never. Most people do it but it's very negotiable.

Speaker 2: 5:47

You have a buyer brokerage agreement where that buyer commits to pay and if there's a co-op offered, then there's a co-op offered.

Speaker 1: 5:54

And I've, I've always, I mean since real estate school, that was how we've been saying to talk about it, so maybe that's what I'm thinking like. Maybe in other states they have different practices. Well, this is in another state.

Speaker 2: 6:05

It wasn't in Vegas, but they did the national lawsuit and they named a bunch of national brokerages. Some of those brokerages have settled out of court and paid money and then some of them, like my particular brokerage or brokerage Keller Williams Gary Keller is adamant that this is not a conspiracy, that without these sort of ability to help buyers pay for that buyer brokerage, that you'd have unrepresented consumers and that's not good for anybody.

Speaker 1: 6:32

Yeah, and I listened to Gary Keller as he was talking, you know, during the court of loss talking there in court and, oh gosh, he had great points, oh yeah it's like he's been in the business. Yeah, that's what he's talking about. So weird.

Speaker 2: 6:46

Yeah, no, he did have great points and I'm not saying it's a perfect system, but what system in our country is perfect? Everything's damaged somewhere, absolutely.

Speaker 1: 6:55

So the NAR president did release a statement to all of us, yeah, and in that statement they claimed that this is not even close to being finalized and they will appeal.

Speaker 2: 7:07

Oh, yeah, this is going to be tied up for a minute. It's too big of an industry not to.

Speaker 1: 7:11

Yeah, so it's not over.

Speaker 2: 7:12

They're not going to take it lying down.

Speaker 1: 7:14

Over yet? Yes, exactly, and you know plaintiffs are claiming that, you know buyer brokers are paid too much, that the commissions are not justifiable and you know things like of that nature. But this brings me to an analogy.

Speaker 2: 7:31

Okay, I saw a grocery store analogy on your notes and I was like I can't wait to hear this. Go ahead, girl.

Speaker 1: 7:36

Okay, how many of you guys love self-checkout lines? I mean, maybe there's a few, I don't know. But that is when this whole transition took place. You know people were like, oh, I guess you know, if the line's too long, I go to self-checkout. But now you know people are like, hey, wait a minute, I don't work for this store. I don't. You know, this isn't, I'm not a checkout person. Why am I doing this? My prices haven't changed, you know. And I am, I'm here doing this job. That is not my, you know. I this isn't, this isn't my field of work. But I'm doing it now because they don't want to have a person there doing it Right. And this brings me back to, like realtors, your, your buyer's brokerage. I mean, you don't want to self-check out your groceries, do you want to self-check out your home?

Speaker 2: 8:22

Like, right, you're like no, well. So there's a lot of moving parts in real estate and I think that it is most people's biggest purchase that having them unprotected or at least having a very good knowledge of the whole transaction and the hiccups because, listen, I've been in real estate for years. You've been in real estate for years. How many deals have you done that have been exactly the same?

Speaker 1: 8:51

None exactly, and there's so many times that we come across an obstacle or we come across something where our experience can go into effect and help navigate the buyers through the right way to do it, because we've been down the road before and not only have we been down the road.

Speaker 2: 9:07

We are held to a fiduciary standard. We have to keep education each week. We have a network of people who support us in our information, in our clients transaction and how things work. It's just, I don't know. I can't think that unrepresented consumers would be a good idea, but the fact of the matter still comes down to, it's always negotiable. Sellers don't have to pay the co-op.

Speaker 1: 9:35

And there's times that I've seen in the MLS work they offer, they offer zero, and you just have to explain that through your buyers brokerage agreement that, hey, if the sellers pay this, that's great, you don't have to pay it. But we do have an agreement that says that you know, we right, somebody's gotta pay. If it's not them, it's gonna be you.

Speaker 2: 9:52

Somebody's gotta pay for that representation and I don't think it's unfair, obviously, to ask for that. So I don't know. The point of the matter is, people need to be represented. It's never going to be good if everything was for sale by owner and buyers without we're buying without representation. What happens when those weird things in escrow, you know, or lending, or hiccups happen with the deal? Nope, nope, nope.

Speaker 1: 10:15

You need help you know, the most absurd thing about all of this that I think is just it just makes my mind go crazy is there's lawyers that are, you know, obviously representing, fighting this case. You know everything like that. They. They think that their compensation is justifiable.

Speaker 2: 10:33

I mean, they're they you have years of education that they're stocked up in that brain that you're paying for. So right.

Speaker 1: 10:42

But again also, you know people have the right to represent themselves in court and you know everything, like everything there where they you know buyers have the right to represent themselves in a buyer cell without you know hiring a professional, owners have their right to represent themselves in the sale.

Speaker 2: 10:58

Absolutely no one is telling them that they can't right so.

Speaker 1: 11:02

But you know, the lawyers are stepping in and saying that like, oh, this is, you know whatever it is. But they have a very, very similar compensation model which they think is justified. But they're fighting, saying that ours is not justified, which I think is very um.

Speaker 2: 11:18

I just yeah, I guess I really can't speak to other states and how they run it, because maybe in what state was the lawsuit happening in? I know it's a national suit, but um, I don't have it.

Speaker 1: 11:29

I don't have it. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2: 11:30

I'm sorry, I'm stuck in my head and I don't even know if that's right, but, um, wherever the lawsuit originated and that group of homeowners I think there was 20 of them they came together for the lawsuit. Um, you know, they may have had a very bad experience or been taken advantage of or told that it was mandatory, but the fact of the matter is, at least in our state, the contracts and everything never say mandatory, it's negotiable. You got to check. Do you want to offer a co-op? If you do, how much do you want to make?

Speaker 1: 11:59

it, there's a space to fill in the blank and there is also a contract, a contract that is mutually signed by all parties. So that to me is also absurd, because, in my opinion, when a contract is signed and agreed to, a contract is signed and agreed to. But, yeah, we will see where this goes.

Speaker 2: 12:23

Well, I think that the stakes are so high and it's an entire industry and it's going to affect everybody in the industry to some degree that this isn't over. Yeah, and when it came in, yeah, we get it, but this is going to be appealed and there's going to be court after court. I can't see this just wrapping up this week.

Speaker 1: 12:41

And we're talking about billions of dollars in damages and those costs are going to be put off to someone.

Speaker 2: 12:48

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 12:49

They're going to be put off somewhere. To someone it could make the cost of business a lot higher. For realtors, the cost of doing business for realtors, if it does come to fruition in that direction. So we'll see.

Speaker 2: 13:04

We'll keep you posted. We'll keep you posted on what's going on. We'll see what goes out. We are following rules.

Speaker 1: 13:08

So we are following rules.

Speaker 2: 13:10

Well, we've always followed rules. Let's throw that out there, yeah.

Speaker 1: 13:13

And just extra disclosure. So I'm over disclosing just everything our terms and that things are negotiable, and everything to every seller when I'm talking to them these days and in this environment, which I've always disclosed, but just doing extra.

Speaker 1: 13:30

Just doing extra because we want to stay out of trouble, because it's our business, this is what we do, so, also, rates are going down. So we had already talked about that. That is great news. That is great news for buyers and sellers. For buyers and sellers Created some movement. We're, I'm at least, finally seeing a lot of sellers that were on the fence on selling. We're quite ready starting to decide that they're ready to make that move. So we're seeing a lot more listings hit the market, which inventory has reflected that we're hitting almost 4,000.

Speaker 1: 14:08

We do hope that number doesn't get substantially high, because that will affect prices.

Speaker 2: 14:14

Yeah, but we like a nice healthy number and we want more than a month worth of stock, that's for sure. So now that we're up in that three, we've got almost three months. Yeah, 4,000, almost three months, absolutely so.

Speaker 1: 14:26

On today's show, we're going to talk about what happens during a showing.

Speaker 2: 14:29

Yeah, it's not just all about lawsuits and inventory and interest rates. Here we're actually going to talk about the buying process. When you do go out shopping, which seems to be buyers favorite part right, it is the most exciting part about real estate. You get to go and look at houses and these people have been shopping online and they get all excited when they're actually in the house.

Speaker 1: 14:51

And I'm actually I'm a little bit surprised because you know sellers, at some point they bought a home, yeah Right, I don't know if they forget what happens when their home was shown or when they were looking at homes, you know when they bought a home or whatever. But there's a lot of times sellers will ask, like, what do the buyers do when they come look at the house? Like what's going on during this? You know, because we asked the sellers to leave, we do ask the sellers to leave.

Speaker 2: 15:17

Yeah, we do ask the sellers to leave and that's really for the buyer to really get a sense of the home without any pressure. And it's surprising how much buyers feel nervous, pressured. They don't want to open doors, they want to scurry out of the house and not really take a look around when buyers I mean sellers are there.

Speaker 1: 15:35

Well, just think about this If you're even if you're not in the real estate market, you put yourself in someone else's house. You're in their space, they're there and they're, they're watching you and you feel really uncomfortable.

Speaker 2: 15:48

You don't know this person Watching you is the key word there, because they they hover, yeah, they want to hear everything. They're looking in the hallway or they're in the room with you and you're like we're good.

Speaker 1: 16:00

Or they're, or they're walking you through the seller that thinks that they're the agent. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah and like to give you the home tour and you're just, you're following them around, but you don't get to look at the things that are important to you, because they're showing you what's important to them.

Speaker 2: 16:12

Right, they're dictating that conversation. Look at, I got walls.

Speaker 1: 16:16

Yeah, did you see my ceiling, isn't it awesome? Yeah, and that is that makes buyers, you know, just want to rush through Rush through.

Speaker 2: 16:24

Yeah, it's not fair. I like that the buyers to be in there, take their time and really get a sense of what living there would be like. And when there's a seller there and even another like the list agent, you know, on higher end properties they, the seller, can have the option of having the agent there besides, but you've already got one licensed agent, so everything should be protected.

Speaker 1: 16:45

Yeah, yeah, when we get into luxury, it's very common for the listing agent to show the home you know. But but again, there's there. There's like a lot of features where the listing agent needs to. Oh no, I agree.

Speaker 2: 16:58

Yeah, so when you're in a luxury home, you want to know all the little luxury home. You want bells and whistles that are going to sell the home. I usually like to have very in detail conversation or preview the home with the list agent and then go back with my client so we have a little more privacy to have open, honest conversations about what they're feeling.

Speaker 1: 17:16

Yeah, or a flip book that has like a list of features and a very descriptive that the agent can use as they're going through the home. So there's lots of options there. So first clue sellers should be gone. Seller should be gone.

Speaker 2: 17:35

Sellers should be gone.

Speaker 1: 17:36

Take that first. No, because if buyers are looking at multiple homes, they're not going to get a fill for this one and this home is probably not going to make their final list. Yeah, Front door we've talked about quite a bit. I think this is. One of my pet peeves is front doors, multiple locks, very dirty front doors, cobwebs on them, things like that.

Speaker 2: 18:02

Yeah, or my fave, I dislike. So so much are weathered artificial plants. Yeah, they've collected dust, they're faded, they just look janky. Chuck them. We don't need that at the front door. And again, it's not like you coming home through your garage and getting into your house, or like your family coming over. You open the front door and they're in. We're out there for a minute. My clients, your clients, they're standing at the front door while we're around the corner getting the lock box and if there's bad reception or the Bluetooth isn't working, it takes a minute. So they might have a good, I don't know three to seven minutes out in front of that house where the agent's fiddling with the lock box. That they are already plotting the condition of this house by what they're seeing outside, absolutely.

Speaker 1: 18:49

So so that's a big deal. When we're you know, they're just just the front door appearance. That's a lot of things that buyers will comment on. Yeah, first impression as we're going in the house Once that door opens. Let's talk about the smell.

Speaker 2: 19:02

Yep, that's the first thing that hits them, and nowadays, with the plugins and things like that, you can have yummy smelling homes, which you should do. If you're trying to market a product, you want to put your best foot forward and everybody loves a good smelling home. They don't want to walk in there and have a leftover food sense or animal sense, or even if it's just heavy cologne, you're wearing so much of it that it overpowers the house. Whatever it is, you want it to be either neutral or appealing.

Speaker 1: 19:33

Yes, Absolutely, Because that is another thing. There's times that we open the doors and the buyers are like, ooh yeah. What was that? Like that wasn't good. Or oh, this smells wonderful Right.

Speaker 2: 19:46

I love this.

Speaker 1: 19:47

It's. Everyone loves walking into a great smelling room.

Speaker 2: 19:50

Yeah, I always pray that there's no comment on smell, like when we open the door it's neutral and they can go in. And if there is going to be a comment, please let it be. This smells so good.

Speaker 1: 19:59

Yeah, absolutely. Flooring buyers always look at the flooring. That is one of their biggest things that they look at, because they want to look at the floor and say, am I going to need to replace this?

Speaker 2: 20:14

Well, it's a big cost, yeah, it's a huge advantage of the home. So that adds up and so they want to make sure that that home and it really sort of is, quote unquote, the foundation of the home right On what that home looks like, feels like if it's dirty, grungy carpet, you feel like, ooh, the whole house must be dirty grungy.

Speaker 1: 20:32

Right. Or even if there's, you know, sometimes there's decent carpet and it just needs to be cleaned or stretched. Yeah, or we're talking to the buyers and we're like, oh, this carpet looks like it's pretty decent and the nice cleaning or stretching would fix it up. But how about getting rid of that before we bring? The buyers in there, so we don't have to explain to them it's an easy correction. Because if it is an easy correction, just do it.

Speaker 2: 20:55

Yeah, so much of the buyer's experience happens with the list agent prepping that seller to sell that house, decluttering, keeping it clean. When I'm with my buyers, I usually give out quirky little names for each house so that way they can remember it, because street numbers and confusing houses is very common for that. So we were in a house this weekend. We called it the Vanishing Family House. It looked like this family had been vaporized.

Speaker 2: 21:23

When we opened the front door, everything was left, exactly like they ran out of that house. There's like half a drink Gatorade bottle on the bar. The bar stools are out, the dining room table, all the chairs were out so you couldn't get around. It made the room feel smaller, like the bed was unmade. The video game was still going like where the kid must have been playing and they grabbed it like come on, son, we're out of here, and it was just crazy. So when you have the list agent showing up and they're telling you keep it clean, have the windows on, have the lights on, make sure that everything is presentable, there's a very good reason for that. They're just letting you know that your first impression is your only impression.

Speaker 1: 22:02

Oh, yeah, absolutely. And how many times have you been out showing a home and you walk in the front door and the buyers are like, nope, yep, they're like we're out Instant. Yeah, there are times that we pulled up to a property and the buyers are like, nope, the front yard looks bad, just everything, and it's just, that's it. They're done Right. They don't even want to take into consideration. So that's a big thing. One thing that I do buying signs are always great to look for when we're out showing properties to buyers. One of the things that I think is the biggest buying sign is when buyers start talking about who's room, who's going to go in what room, and I'm like, okay they love this one.

Speaker 2: 22:43

Yeah, when they're lingering in the common space, when they're placing furniture in their mind, when people are picking out their space, or I'm going to use this for my office, or this is where my gym is going to go, or I would love a media room right here Then you're like oh okay, we're in love. I love that. Let's talk.

Speaker 1: 22:59

Yeah, so that is a great buying sign and again, you want to make sure that buyers have that opportunity to take it all in and then they can start moving themselves visually into the home, yeah, but you want that space to be as neutral as possible.

Speaker 2: 23:15

Yes, they don't want to come to your house. They want to come to their house Absolutely. So you need to have those buyers feeling warm and welcome. Lots of good scent, make it clean.

Speaker 1: 23:26

Yeah, so not all buyers agents do this. Some buyers will automatically do it, but I know both you and I do it.

Speaker 2: 23:37

I always check the AC's.

Speaker 1: 23:39

Yes, like it is. I mean, we're not inspecting them. I don't even know how to inspect an AC, right, but I will just bring the buyers. We find it, whether it's on the roof, whether it's on the side, wherever this AC is placed, I bring the buyers and I make sure they look at the roof? Yeah, no.

Speaker 2: 23:57

I stand at that. I'm like, there it is, it's up there.

Speaker 1: 24:00

Do you like that? Yeah, we find it and we pointed it out. And let's just take a look at that, because there's times that we get to the home inspection and the buyers see the AC for the first time and they're like nope, nope.

Speaker 2: 24:11

That's old, that's I don't want it. But if we're being honest, if a AC unit is older it's perfectly fine in this valley as long as it's been maintained in service. Those suckers go for years and years, and years and years. On one of my spots it was built in 72 and I have the same dual AC units.

Speaker 1: 24:30

I think they used to make them better.

Speaker 2: 24:31

Oh, okay.

Speaker 1: 24:33

That's in just my opinion, because I see some of the newer ones that don't have as long as the life, as those like old 70s and 80s ones that are still running yeah they're kicking. They just made those things so solid back then and even houses. I mean, I haven't seen like some of the older houses are just so much more solid sound than some of the newer ones.

Speaker 2: 24:55

I have one client who is adamant If it's not built in 2021, 22, 23,. She is not interested. And I'm like I don't know Some of these older houses really. I mean there's benefits. They usually have larger lots, mature landscaping, you know. So there's pros and cons. They might have older windows or an AC that will need some tending eventually. But yeah, I do put my eyes on the AC. I always want to make sure that it is running. When we're in the house, how's the house feel? Did it feel cool when we came in on hot day? And then I always look for things like the insulation to see if it's the cords have been insulated or if they're falling apart.

Speaker 2: 25:37

And there's times that we'll make sure that leaves and debris are out of there.

Speaker 1: 25:40

Just clean it up. There's times that we'll see very common things that always come up on the home inspection and if I see them while we're walking through the house I'll mention to the buyers. Home inspectors probably going to bring this up and you know you guys can talk about during them. But you know, just show it to them. Just get it out of the way, why not, you know, say like hey listen.

Speaker 2: 26:00

your job is to be informing them to the best of your ability. And as many homes as we see in a week, we, when we walk into a house, see a very different space than a first time home buyer. Yeah, First thing I look at when I go in is first, I'm always looking at the ceiling. I'm checking to see if there's any sort of like movement on the foundation. I'm looking at water. I'm always opening underneath the sinks.

Speaker 2: 26:25

Yes, I'm like, oh, water damage, okay, we got to, we got to address that someday. But I'm really looking at things. They're just like oh, is it smell good? Is it pretty? Can I put my couch here? So as an agent, a buyer's agent, you want to make sure that you are pointing out a few different things before you write that contract. Because if there's a giant crack in the ceiling, you might be like that may be settling, but when we have a home inspector, we're going to have them address that, just so we know. So that way they're not shocked when they see it on the home inspection.

Speaker 1: 26:55

Yeah, we see a lot of those just here in the valley. But usually yeah those long hairline cracks that are like the drywall, shifted and cracked A lot of that and usually in most cases the inspector looks at it and says, no, it's just common crack Cosmetic yeah. But it's ugly. And it's one of those things that, like you, you'll see. Some of the houses the sellers like filled it in with cocking and they made it look worse.

Speaker 2: 27:23

They were making efforts. They're just not professional. We don't want to do it yourself, or we want it to look clean and neat, or we just wanted to dress on the Sellers. Real property disclosure. So we're aware of why that's there.

Speaker 1: 27:35

Yeah, or the texture. The texture is the common texture, like knockdown texture in in Vegas, which has always been common in construction for many years. It's starting to change a little bit to Santa Fe which is, I think, way more like user friendly as far as touch up some patches.

Speaker 2: 27:50

Yeah, yeah, I like say yeah.

Speaker 1: 27:52

But that, that knockdown whenever you do a patch on it, especially on a ceiling, because the light hits the ceiling a certain way, yeah, it's like totally. Visible doesn't blend in the right way. So those are always things, but usually they're not. Usually they're not issues, but we never know. That's why, that's why you have a home inspection.

Speaker 2: 28:11

Yeah, we're walking you through, we're letting you know kind of what's going on a little bit in the house, what we're seeing from our eyes, verse, and to add to what you're seeing with your eyes but reality, the home inspection is where you find out that snapshot of the condition of the property. Yeah, yeah, and baseboards, and Baseboards can make a house look so dingy, or they can make them look so nice and so clean. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 28:35

Absolutely coming in before you saw your house and running a bead of colc on there and like painting those baseboards is a real Refresh.

Speaker 1: 28:43

Yeah, it just. It just makes a room look cleaner, makes a room look better. It just, you know baseboard make a big difference and such an indicator of Water damage, moisture damage. But how many houses have you been into you?

Speaker 2: 28:56

We're using the baseboard, all worked around a lot of them and you're like wavity, wavity.

Speaker 1: 29:00

There's been water on this floor, some at some point in time.

Speaker 2: 29:03

Yeah, it's just for a minute because it waved an entire baseboard.

Speaker 1: 29:06

Yeah, so yeah, huge indicator and those are things that you know. Experienced agents that have shown a lot of homes can notice right off the bat that Inspection reports a lot of inspection reports.

Speaker 2: 29:19

Yeah, and there's always things on the inspection report, right, like that self-closing garage door always needs to be addressed. There's never like the tip, the tip bracket on the back of the stove there's, I'm like, I like laugh, I'm like. So when you get your home inspection, I can tell you a few things they're gonna point out instantly.

Speaker 1: 29:35

Yeah, no, it's at the attic storage in the garage, you know. And whenever I see those, people are like, oh great, has a garage ladder, and I'm like, yeah, your home inspector is gonna tell you that's not good.

Speaker 2: 29:47

Nobody's ever gonna go up there, except for your home inspector. So there you go.

Speaker 1: 29:51

Yeah, so they will. They if you're doing an FHA or a VA loan, they'll. They'll have you still that off, so say goodbye to your attic storage. Yeah, so um, those are, yeah, just things that that we learn along the way. But during the showing overall, the buyers are going through, they're looking at things there. I had sellers ask multiple times, especially when they're living in the home, like are they going through my drawers? There is no reason why a buyer should be going through your dresser drawers right Anything personal property.

Speaker 1: 30:18

I don't let them touch open cabinets, open Doors, yeah cabinets, doors, closets, you know, but they should not be looking through your personal belongings. And that's why they're accompanied by a realtor and the real trade there to make sure that we have standards.

Speaker 2: 30:32

And we're keep everybody together. You're in a family of five. We're traveling all five of us together, we're not wandering on our own. Yeah, yeah absolutely so.

Speaker 1: 30:40

Those shouldn't be concerns. I mean, we can't speak for everybody, of course, but those should just not. Should not be concerns, but typically buyers are just. You know they're looking at things about the home. They are there, they're critiquing you and how you live, so keep that in mind.

Speaker 2: 30:58

That's another reason you shouldn't be there. Sometimes, if you get the honest ones, you don't want to have to hear what they say. Yeah, yeah, we usually don't get a lot of honest ones. People are afraid and want to leave, but every now and then you get the people who don't care that the sellers down this one right away. I'd be like oh, what's going on with that wavy baseboard over there? What is that smell? What are you doing here?

Speaker 1: 31:15

Yeah, yeah, do not, you will be offended. Yeah, um so, so yeah, basically, I mean, those are, those are the things that happen. Oh, yard, one more thing before we, before we sign off, before we wrap it up, yeah if you have pets in your yard, clean up before the showings.

Speaker 2: 31:32

Yeah, that was like in the vanishing house. There was, I mean, everything. It literally looked like that house. The family had vanished. When we opened the front door, they were there living their life and then they were gone. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'm living in a house that you're selling is very different than just living your life in your house.

Speaker 1: 31:49

Yeah, and you know the funny thing about it is is buyers a lot of times are like and they live in homes and their homes could very Well, much like like this. Oh, they're shopping for a new home that have higher expectations, oh yeah, they're getting new, they're upgrading.

Speaker 2: 32:05

It's exciting for them and I want it to be exciting. I want every house I take them to to be a little bit of oh, I love this house too. Yeah, I don't want to have to walk into homes where they feel uncomfortable or dirty or they need to take a shower after and they're like Okay, we got to go. Yeah, I want, because that that's the best part of the buying process is the shopping, the rest of its contracts and negotiations, and due diligence and Less exciting, that's for sure.

Speaker 1: 32:35

Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and sometimes buyers will return to the same home in this market to look at it a couple times before.

Speaker 2: 32:42

Yeah, that's not uncommon, especially right now.

Speaker 1: 32:44

Yeah. So those are always good buying signs and you know whether you're on the, if you're on the buyer side. That's an indicator that you really love the home and you're in for the seller.

Speaker 2: 32:53

They're coming back to your house. You'll be like, oh, I got one on the, I got one, they like a, yeah, they like yeah, yeah, yeah so they usually don't return twice, unless they're really considering the home.

Speaker 1: 33:02

Yeah that's a good thing to keep in mind as well. Well, we are done, so uh real quick before we go.

Speaker 2: 33:09

I just want bathroom clutter, like when I take a listing. I bring a caddy and I'm like your toothbrush, your toothpaste, anything you said on the edges of your Whatever put it in the cabinet I mean the caddy and then shove it underneath, pull it out when you need it and put it back, because we want everything to be as clean as neat. And then things on the countertop only one, two, three. I allow three, I'm like. All of it needs to go. Take your cookie jar and your coffee pot and your tea pot and your utensil holder. We need one or two things on that and that's it.

Speaker 1: 33:40

I say you can pick up to three things that you can't live without. Like for me it would be a coffee maker, like don't make you put that away. But but pick three things you can't live without. Everything else has to go.

Speaker 2: 33:50

Yeah, same thing with, like, the bathrooms in the kitchen and also thinning out your closets, taking about half of the things in your items, whether it's off-season clothing, throwing him in a vacuum bag, put them in a Cardboard box because you're moving anyway. Because when buyers open those closets they want to see that they have storage space, and if it's stuffed to the guild with 15 years worth of your stuff, they're gonna think, oh, this house has no storage. Actually, this house has 15 years worth of storage. There is so much stuff in here you just can't see it.

Speaker 1: 34:20

Yeah, it could be a huge closet, but if it's over, if it's over stuff, yeah.

Speaker 2: 34:25

I want to see like space in between each and every hanger and one or two shoes on sets of shoes on a shoe rack, instead of 50 overflowing and dumping onto the floor like really thin out everything. Yeah, yeah, because it's okay to accumulate stuff, it's okay to have messy houses. We live in it. I got stuff on my house sometimes. Sometimes it's clean, sometimes it's dirty, whatever it's life. But it's different when you're living in a house that you're selling. Absolutely Okay, now we're wrapping up.

Speaker 1: 34:54

If somebody does want to get a hold of you, trish, to go look at these beautiful homes, how would they reach you 702-308-2878, you can call me or text me and I will respond and help you out on Looking at homes, on selling a home, on anything like that. And, tiana, how do people reach out to you to buy or sell?

Speaker 2: 35:12

a home. They can call me or text me. My cell is 702-379-99948. We want to thank you so much for joining us again on Vegas Realty Check and if you are enjoying the content and supporting this, make sure you like, share and subscribe, because we love having you here as Part of our community and we don't want you to miss out on anything.

Speaker 1: 35:31

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