activerain.trulia.comhttp://activerain.trulia.com/blogsview/3690605/is-the-living-area-size-accurate-on-baton-rouge-home-you-re-buying-

Bill Cobb

Is the Living Area Size Accurate on Baton Rouge Home You'reBuying?

By

Real Estate Appraiser with Accurate Valuations Group, LLC LA St Certified 851

Email Short URL

Share:

April 11, 2013 12:49 AM

Is the Living Area Size Accurate on Baton Rouge Home You're Buying?

Buying A Home? Is the Living Area Size Accurate so you're paying a fair price?

Listing Your Home? Hire An Appraiser To Measure Your Home!....Agent didn't measure this home correctly.

*** INTERVIEW prospective Agents and ask for a guarantee that your home will be measured properly based

on the National ANSI Standards.

*** Make sure your Agent, their support Team Member of the Appraiser they hires shows up to measure yourhome. Don't allow the Agent to just estimate the living area without

NOTE: This is being written for "Baton Rouge Real Estate", not real estate in other areas of the U.S., and inBaton Rouge, Real Estate Professionals physically measure homes to verify correct living area size.

Between 2009-2010, Agent listed home at1540sf and included storage area as living area.Why was this error even made? Now I'mappraising this same home and find it only has1,456sf living area, 82sf less. At $100/sf, thiswas a potential $8,200 "error". Now I'm havingto report a lower value than paid to this family forthe Estate Settlement. Your Agent shouldknow how to measure and professionallyrepresent your home's corrent living areasize based on the national ANSI standards!

Listing of the home isn't copied and a new date added.

Home Appraiser Appraisal | 225-293-1500 | Baton Rouge | Louisiana

http://www.homeappraisalsbatonrouge.com/...225-293-1500 For whatever reason you need a Greater Baton RougeHome Appraisal, give Bill Cobb Appraiser or staff ...

Getting the Living Area Size of a home Accurate IS THE MOST IMPORTANT factor in pricing your home or the home

you plan on purchasing.

YOUR BATON ROUGE REAL ESTATE AGENT SHOULD SHOW UP WITH GEAR LIKE THIS BELOW TOPROPERLY MEASURE YOUR HOME

Think About It! When is the correct time to havethe living area size 100% accurate? At thebeginning of the listing when the home is beingpriced or after the home is under contract andthen find out home is 100sf smaller than"professionally represented"!

AND, DON'T ALLOW YOUR BATON ROUGEREAL ESTATE AGENT TO COPY THEPREVIOUS MLS LISTINGS WITHIN GBRMLS, IF THERE IS ONE BACK TO 1997!

I have witnessed listings not measured correctly that are inputed into GBRMLS and then that incorrectlisting is copied for the next listing and I've witnessed this happening up to five (5) times just on 1 listing. When having your home listed, make sure the Agent physically measures your home for accuracy and that anyprevious old MLS Listing of the home isn't copied and a new date added.

Bill Cobb Appraiser professionally measures Greater Baton Rouge's Home

225-293-1500

http://www.homeappraisalsbatonrouge.com/

Disclaimer: Trulia, Inc. does not necessarilyendorse the real estate agents, loan officers andbrokers listed on this site. These real estateprofiles, blogs and blog entries are providedhere as a courtesy to our visitors to help themmake an informed decision when buying orselling a house. Trulia, Inc. takes noresponsibility for the content in these profiles,that are written by the members of thiscommunity.

© 2014 Trulia, Inc. All Rights Reserved FairHousing: Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity