Hi everyone. This is your Tampa Bay realtor Lance Mohr and in this video I
want to go over four questions I get every so often that I've never really
addressed before and what they are is should I buy a home if it backs up to a
busy street should I buy a home if it backs up to a power line should I buy a
home if it backs up to a vacant piece of dirt should I buy a home if someone died
in it so I'm going to go over these four questions in this video
all right should I buy home if it backs up to a busy street well it really
depends how busy that Street is now some people like backing up to a street
opposed to another home because maybe they're gonna put a pool in
or there's a pool in the home right now so that's pretty common but if you're
backing up to a pretty busy road you're gonna most likely have a hard time for
resale because even if those people don't mind
backing up to a busy road there's a stigma about backing up to a busy road
so I would keep that in mind and this goes for busy roads or even strip
centers so think of what's going to be behind the home I had a client years ago
that bought a home that backed up to a fire station and he had the hardest time
selling it so another one that comes up every once in a while is should I buy
home if it backs up to a power line now it depends what type of power line is it
just a little 16000 volt power line or is it a two hundred and forty four
thousand volt power line so I think the problem with backing up to a power line
is just the perception people don't like it I once had a home in Tampa Palms that
backed up to a power line and you really could barely see the power line because
there were trees behind the home we had a hundred in 36 showings on the home
before it's sold it was just absolutely unbelievable and I told him this up
front I said your home is absolutely gorgeous and even though you don't mind
backing up to a power line perceptions of reality even if the person who's
buying it doesn't mind backing up to the power line they're gonna probably want a
good deal on it because they know a lot of people just don't want to do that so
you'll want to keep that into account now the third one that comes up really
quite often for me is backing up to a piece of dirt a raw piece of land and
I've run in this before I've many times and I remember when I was newer in the
business I ran into it and I asked the listing agent what's what's his own for
behind he said it zoned residential and that's
what the seller told him well what happened is we called the Zoning
Department the next day I told the seller I said or the buyer I said call
the Zoning Department and ask them because I always like the buyers to do
that because if they're given a wrong answer I don't want to be blamed so they
called the Zoning Department and it was actually zoned residential multifamily
and if residential was going in it wouldn't be that big of a deal but
multifamily if a carton apartment complex went in behind the values would
just really go down so if you're backing up to a raw piece of dirt make sure that
you see what it's owned for and sometimes it just could be agricultural
and it could just always stay that so always make sure what its own for do
your due diligence and the last one I've actually ran into this before I've
actually ran in to someone dying in the home now I had a buyer that was
literally looking for a needle in a haystack because they needed owner owner
financing we had very very very few choices we wouldn't looked at this one
home and he loved it he said his wife would love it she wasn't there he was
going to bring her back the next day and there was this sweetest little old lady
there but what happened is we're walking through the house she pointed out to a
bedroom and she said my husband died in that bed right there and look at the end
of the day we're all gonna go sometime and were generally gonna go outside the
home inside the home or in the hospital but the fact of the matter is he knew
his wife wouldn't like that and he did of course the right thing and he told
her she didn't like it and it just sort of all blew up they didn't end up buying
the home and I called the listing agent and let him know so that's really a
personal preference I can't say it that you should or should not it rarely ever
comes up but you know it's just one of those things that it's really a personal
preference so if you have any questions don't hesitate go below and leave a
comment well you know what your question is I'll do
my best I've ran across almost everything in residential real estate
over the last 20 plus years in the business if you're in the Tampa Bay area
and I could help you I would love to I wish you the best of luck buying a home
you