Floor Plan Fear

What’s more frustrating than finding a special home priced just out of your reach? Finding that special one priced within your reach — but without a printed floor plan. Visit that special house again, and you may be shocked to discover it’s not what you remembered.

It’s a real downer.

Printed floor plans are standard in European real estate. Many home buyers look at the layout and immediately know whether the house will work. In America, builders provide printed floor plans, but many agents haven’t caught on yet. What a mistake. If buyers could look at floor plans as well as pictures online, most could quickly eliminate houses they might otherwise waste their time visiting.

According to the New York Times, floor plans can tell you quite a bit:

A floor plan shows the entire unit, not just part of it. In other words, floor plans reveal what photographs often do not: the proportions of rooms, the number of rooms and the traffic flows among them. A buyer can instantly see, for instance, if the kitchen is conveniently situated near the dining room, whether bedrooms open directly onto the living room or whether a trip to the bathroom will involve a walk through a bedroom.

Recently, Rona Fischman wrote about buyers viewing multiple properties and how they often lose track of the details. She concluded that buyers should limit the number of properties they see, take copious notes, and forget about the bad places. I will add that if sellers provided floor plans, none of the other stuff would be necessary.

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