Visiting an apartment or a house is not always an easy task, especially when you don’t completely trust the real estate agent… There is a simple method to check if they are fooling us or No !
Visiting a property with a real estate agent is sometimes a bit of a delicate task! It sometimes happens that he embellishes reality or glosses over some important information to close the deal and earn his commission. Fortunately, there is a way to check the honesty of real estate agents in certain specific cases… But how to do it?
Real estate expert Mehdi Asten shared valuable advice for verifying a real estate agent’s claims. It may happen that when you visit a property on which you have your eye on a purchase, the professional involved makes you believe that “the facade was redone fifteen years ago” for example, as he explains in a post on Twitter.
But how can we ensure the veracity of this key information? Because a facade renovation can cost a lot of money and this could make you flee before even having set foot in the apartment to visit… All you have to do is go to the tool Google Street Viewwhich brings together a myriad of panoramic images of the country’s streets. For example, when you type the street name of the property you are interested in into the search tool, you access the last photo that was taken of it.
But if you click on “see more dates“, you will then be able to discover the images of the street over the years and the way in which it has evolved. So, was this facade really redone fifteen years ago? You can now be a little more sure of the answer!Very useful for the dates of changing roofs and frames or creating attics” added one Twitter user.
Some Internet users have not hesitated to provide other methods to get as much information as possible about the neighborhood or street in which you are visiting a property. One of them, for example, recalled the importance of asking to consult the co-ownership reports, which can provide information on many points and give you some important financial information. Another Internet user also recommended going to the site Remonterletemps.ign.fr which allows you to observe the evolution of a neighborhood through photos and maps of the area.
For information purposes, let us also remember that a real estate agent does not have the right to lie about the surface area of a property for sale, any false advertisement being punishable by two years of imprisonment and 37,500 euros in compensation. ‘fine.
