3 House Hunting Red Flags You Should Avoid

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[Bluekangaroo]

One tip is to always look into city planning in the zone of the house. Last year a new builder was offering amazing price cuts and incentives. This was ultimately due to a homeless shelter that was going to begin building right next door within the year. Always look up articles about the area even your cross streets. You might find out information that can save you from headache.

[texasrose]

I immediately do a google street view…I hate being catfished by a nice house set in a crappy neighborhood or street 😢.

[Katadori]

If the seller is playing games by delisting/relisting to reset their days on market count, I consider that a red flag. If they’re playing games with Zillow, they’ll play games with the buyer.

[ElektraDesigns]

Another red flag is the 3D rendered furniture they place in photos. Its almost always off in perspective and generally distracts from the space.

[richardhudson]

After selling two homes in 2020, I'm anticipating a housing crisis in order to buy inexpensively. As a backup plan, I've been thinking about purchasing stocks. What recommendations do you have for the best time to buy? On the one hand, I keep reading and seeing trader earnings of over $500k each week. On the other side, I keep hearing that the market is out of control and experiencing a dead cat bounce. Why does this happen?

[kortyEdna]

I’m in Ohio and the housing market here over the last 7-8 years is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Homes that were bought for $130K in 2015 are now being sold for $590k. I’m talking about tiny, disgusting, poorly built 950 square foot shit boxes in quiet mediocre neighbourhoods. Then you’ve got Better, average sized homes in nicer neighbourhoods that were $300K+ 10 years ago selling for $750k+ now. Wild times.

[karissakline]

A quick way to see if a house is a flip is to look at when it was last sold in the Zillow history below the main page. If it was bought within a year or so and maybe even listed for rent, then selling at a higher price then it’s definitely a flip and you should be wary.

[bitfix]

Cant stand sellers who reduce the price by $1 and/or relist the home so that they show up at the top of filtered lists

[theoriginalfleabag]

FOLLOW THE INSPECTOR AND ASK AS MANY QUESTIONS AS YOU CAN. You are paying them to inspect and you need to know what you’re buying. Learned my lesson hard.

[Samuelsoft]

I agree about the red flag #3. Sometimes these listings don't even be having pictures of the front or the yard of the house at all.... like are we doing people???

[YoPhocFays]

If you are a novice, don't buy a flip. Flippers buy the nicest (poor quality on the inside) stuff. Stuff that looks shiny but will break in 5 years.

I always head straight to the HVAC and attic. I ignore the fabulous remodeled kitchen. I look for the things that are going to cost me the most money.

I've seen HGTV level remodels with the HVAC that looks like its from the 70's, mold all over the attic. Paint covers up a lot of things.

[mickybrousseau]

My family's house was on Zillow for like 300 days. The previous owner was a hoarder. And thank God she was, we got the house much cheaper and once the place was cleaned up. It was so beautiful in a country road in a small town

[RyuujiWood]

Tapestries / Blankets hung up on walls could be a red flag of hidden damage. We looked at one house that we almost bought and saw a tapestry hung on the basement wall and thought nothing of it, but when the inspector looked through the place they found a giant crack in the wall that you could fit your hand into

[ivy]

The faux wood laminate floors really drive me crazy. Literally sellers install it in then try to charge like they installed real wood. The laminate looks nice on camera but in person looks and feels cheap and dents easily.

[tammiegriffin]

5:48 It's horrible because there is no cabinet space. Where are you putting your dishes? It's probably been vetoed by every person, who actually cooks and entertains at home.

[jodeplank]

I've been looking for ~5 months now and one red flag I run into over and over are noticeable fish-eye interior pics, especially if there's no floorplans on the public site (Redfin, Zillow, etc). I've yet to visit a super fish-eye house and NOT be disappointed, so at this point they get moved to the bottom of the tour list if they make it at all. They are just hiding how small the space is or feels. I'm also just continuously irritated that more houses don't include reasonable floorplans in their public posts. More than half of my emails to my agent are "Can you find floorplans for this address in the MLS?"

[dismurrart]

Be cautious of remodeled open concepts. A lot of people tear down load bearing walls

[xxxx-qodh]

I actually prefer a home that has been on the market for a long time so I can lowball them.

[MzCami]

I've seen houses up for a long time and then suddenly it's reposted and the time online has restarted

[veronicasvideodiaries]

Solid red flags in the video but so many more in the comments section 👀