The Chirping Smoke Detector - A Sign of the Times
Posted Feb 25, 2009 @ 9:12 pm, Viewed by 500 Visitors, Read 517 Times.We are all seeing things in the current real estate market that we have never seen before, and now we are hearing something new also....the "chirping" smoke detector.
More and more frequently these days, I am showing Bank Owned homes to prospective buyers of Woodland Real Estate. It's just a mathematical fact. Over the last two years, a larger portion of homes on the market are short sales and Bank Owned homes. So more often I am showing clients empty homes that are bank owned.
With the drop in interest rates in December, I find more investors from out of state are interested in the area. Recently I have been working with an east coast buyer interested in Wild Wings real estate. They want a to buy a golf course home and hold onto it for a few years before they move out here. Although they have visited the sub-division, they are buying the home sight-unseen.
So I, and my associates, have been touring homes that interest the buyer, to take and post pictures and video for them to view.
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After visiting many homes, I realized that very often the one thing that many Bank Owned properties have in common is the "chirping" smoke detector. As foreclosed homes are on the market for longer periods, the batteries in the smoke detectors die out and trigger the nerve-grating "chirping" sound. This sound ranks just above "fingernails-on-a-chalkboard" on the official Scale of Irritation.
Since many bank owned properties are listed by out of area agents, the upkeep on smoke detectors is sometimes missed. Occasionally I remove the battery if I can reach the smoke detector, just to maintain my sanity, but many times it is mounted on a 9-foot ceiling, or worse, a vaulted ceiling.
So the chirping continues... just another sign of the tough times in real estate.
Vicki Walker - Davis, California Realtor
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I hate that! Just the other day I showed a foreclosure with standing water in the basement (actually, the family room from a split level home - only a few steps down from the main level). I let the listing agent know via an e-mail feedback request and am wondering if the agent knew about the water issue or not. Looking at the walls, you could tell the water had been much higher at one point and you could see the mold growing, so this wasn't something that just happened.