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A buyer's mistake: treating a nice kitchen or big backyard as proof the house is good, then stopping there. You need to evaluate the whole property, not just the features that caught your eye.

A buyer's mistake: treating a nice kitchen or big backyard as proof the house is good, then stopping there. You need to evaluate the whole property, not just the features that caught your eye.
The problem was not that they missed the features. The problem was that one or two features quietly became the whole decision. This is one of the great illusions of property. The idea that more features or better features automatically mean a better property decision. Sometimes they do, but not always. A feature is an observation. It is not yet a judgment. And over the years, I have become convinced that many property disappointments happen because buyers stop evaluating too soon.