How to compare houses while house hunting with a checklist per showing, photos and notes, and a score you set yourself
One tracker for every house you see: an inspection checklist to take to showings, photos and notes, your own scoring, the key dates in a purchase and the costs side by side.
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My partner and I are buying our first home and we're seeing a house or two every weekend and forgetting which had what.
Build one tool: a list of the houses we see (address, price, date seen, link to the listing), and for each a checklist to fill in at the showing (roof, windows, water stains, foundation cracks, plumbing, electrical panel, heating and cooling, neighborhood noise, parking) with a note and photo per item.
Let us set the five things that matter most to us and score each house against them, and show the houses side by side with price, monthly cost estimate that I enter (an estimate, not financial advice) and score. A place for the questions to ask the seller and the answers.
The key dates in a purchase once we make an offer (inspection, appraisal, mortgage commitment, closing), each with a due date and done or not done. A link my partner can open and add to. A note that a licensed inspector does the real inspection. Phone friendly.
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What you get
- A list of every house with price, date and listing link.
- An inspection checklist per showing with notes and photos.
- Your own five priorities and a score per house, side by side.
- The questions for the seller and the answers.
- The key purchase dates counted down, with a link your partner can add to.
What usually gets in the way
- After six showings the houses blur together and the photos are on two phones.
- The checklist from the internet is long and none of it is scored against what matters to you.
- The questions for the seller are forgotten until after the visit.
- Two people keep separate notes and disagree about what was said.
- Once an offer is accepted, the dates arrive fast.
The longer story
Buying a home turns into comparing a dozen houses over several weekends, and by the fifth showing memory fails. What helps is writing down the same things for every house, in the same place, so the comparison is real.
A checklist to take to each showing, with notes and photos per item, replaces the scattered photos and half-remembered impressions. Setting your own priorities and scoring each house against them makes the comparison about what matters to you, not what a listing emphasizes.
Once you make an offer, the dates in a purchase come quickly, so they belong in the same tracker.
This is a checklist for showings, not a home inspection: a licensed inspector does that.
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