What shall I include in my crib sheet for my EA?

ironlady2022

I thought it would be useful to write up a crib sheet for my EA. Thought, they have a lot of houses on their books, doing multiple viewings so it would be quite easy to forget about useful facts about the house. So far I have the following categories,

Supermarkets
Shopping
Schools
Amenities
Restaurants
Attractions
Public Transport

Is there anything else that I can include, that may be useful?

Slithery

I wouldn't bother, chances are they won't use it anyway.
Also the prospective buyers will have already done this research.

ironlady2022

Slithery said:

I wouldn't bother, chances are they won't use it anyway.
Also the prospective buyers will have already done this research.

I've started, might aswell finish. If they don't, use, it's also ok

canaldumidi

As a buyer I'd do my own research into whichever of those were important to me. I certainly wouldn't rely on or trust the EA.

But it's interesting you descrbe that list as "facts about the house." They're not. They're facts about the locality. What you should be telling the EA is.... facts about the house!

Spiderroo

We went to a house viewing where they had 3 sheets out on the kitchen table for us to look at and take photos of and they were SO useful. Being able to take photos was great too as we could refer back when discussing the house and deciding what to offer. I’ve put below what they covered but they really reassured us about the quality of the property and the neighbourhood. I’m sure they only put the good bits but that’s sales in a nutshell! 

We weren’t originally looking in that neighbourhood but this house was too nice to not view and the comprehensive summary of everything round there they put out bumped it to our no 1 choice. We were outbid on that house (it went for 20% over asking) but we’ve now had an offer accepted on a house 10 minutes away by foot. 

They covered: 
- the local area; places of worship, leisure facilities, schools, green spaces/allotments, local cafes/bars, restaurants, transport
- the garden and street; what you can fit outside (used to have a swing, trampoline, etc), how much sun the garden gets, what the immediate neighbours and street are like, privacy (trellis,not overlooked at front, etc) what grows well
- the house; freehold/leasehold, noise (insulation, utility room so no washing noise, etc), new wall/fence, building reg and planning permission for work inside, age of windows/pipes/electrics, access to parts of the house for repairs/cleaning, alarms, the age and source of the kitchen, flooring, etc and energy efficiency/compliance of wood burner with clean air rules. 

ironlady2022

Spiderroo said:

We went to a house viewing where they had 3 sheets out on the kitchen table for us to look at and take photos of and they were SO useful. Being able to take photos was great too as we could refer back when discussing the house and deciding what to offer. I’ve put below what they covered but they really reassured us about the quality of the property and the neighbourhood. I’m sure they only put the good bits but that’s sales in a nutshell! 

We weren’t originally looking in that neighbourhood but this house was too nice to not view and the comprehensive summary of everything round there they put out bumped it to our no 1 choice. We were outbid on that house (it went for 20% over asking) but we’ve now had an offer accepted on a house 10 minutes away by foot. 

They covered: 
- the local area; places of worship, leisure facilities, schools, green spaces/allotments, local cafes/bars, restaurants, transport
- the garden and street; what you can fit outside (used to have a swing, trampoline, etc), how much sun the garden gets, what the immediate neighbours and street are like, privacy (trellis,not overlooked at front, etc) what grows well
- the house; freehold/leasehold, noise (insulation, utility room so no washing noise, etc), new wall/fence, building reg and planning permission for work inside, age of windows/pipes/electrics, access to parts of the house for repairs/cleaning, alarms, the age and source of the kitchen, flooring, etc and energy efficiency/compliance of wood burner with clean air rules. 

Thank you for this, and this is the exact response I'm trying to provoke! Not every Buyer knows the local area!

JReacher1

It’s the same as housing building companies do on new build estates. They pull together an information pack for the area. Can’t see this approach causing any problems. Although if it’s a local estate agent would expect them to do this themselves. 

hazyjo

I'd leave something for the eventual buyer, but not for each viewer.

If you do it something together, just leave it in your house for viewers to look at (not sure if that's what you meant, or if you were expecting the EA to hand a copy out to all viewers?).

ironlady2022

JReacher1 said:

It’s the same as housing building companies do on new build estates. They pull together an information pack for the area. Can’t see this approach causing any problems. Although if it’s a local estate agent would expect them to do this themselves. 

I've been to viewings and they generally do not. They just answer any question I may pose/can think of at the time

ironlady2022

hazyjo said:

I'd leave something for the eventual buyer, but not for you each viewing.

If you do it something together, just leave it in your house for viewers to look at (not sure if that's what you meant, or if you were expecting the EA to hand a copy out to all viewers?).

No it was just for EA info. Not intending to give out

TheJP

Its a nice thing to do and some will appreciate it and some will ignore it, however if I'm viewing the place i will have likely done my research already.