Steve D Valentine explains why you must clear out a property before assessing it. Hidden damage like a 12-foot hole can hide under clutter, making pictures misleading and tanking your deal.
Where do you even start to digest what is salvageable or not salvageable.
In a house? You first got to clean it out. That's the goal. That every time we have is that you can't make judgments that, oh, this is great. That's actually why when we see something like this, we get everything out of the house so then we can make an assessment. And it's also one of the reasons that if we buy a house with a bunch of, we're taking a discount on it. Because I cannot see physically what's happening in the house. Like, I don't know if all this stuff is on the floor, if there's a 12 foot deep hole. Right?
Yeah.
And by the way, that's not funny because it actually happened to my dad on a trustee salehouse. They couldn't see in and the seller was so pissed about it, they jackhammered half of the foundation up in the kitchen and they just filled it with and it was like, yeah, saw the worst of the worst back then. The first thing is always making sure that pricing wise is based on condition. Right. And the starting point is to just get everything out.
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