6 tips to avoid information overload

Information overload can be avoided

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Since I work with many buyers, I'm always thinking about how I can help the average Colorado Springs  home buyer look for a home.   One of the biggest challenges for first time home buyers is information overload.   How do they keep all the information straight?  At the end of a full day of showings, how do they remember what they saw?

Here are my top 6 tips to help the Colorado Springs first time home buyer:

1. Keep notes on each house as you go through it.  Why do you like it, what needs work?  What's the good, the bad, and the ugly?   When you get in the car, write everything down you can about the house.  You may think you'll remember the information later in the day, but if you write it down you know you'll remember the key points.
2. Nickname the house.  The "green" house.  Or the "70's house" with the green appliances.  Or the "cul-de-sac" house.  Nicknaming the house will help you keep them straight.  After seeing 10 - 15 houses in a day it becomes confusing.  All the houses run together.
3. If you don't like the house,  get rid of the paperwork or cross it off.  (no reason to keep unneeded paperwork as it just adds to the information overload.)
4. Take pictures to help you remember the houses and the features you like.
5. As you go through the day seeing houses, rank the homes.  On a scale of 1 to 10, which house is a 9 or a 10?   Write this information down on the MLS property sheet.
6. Write down all the pluses and minuses of each home on single piece of paper.  That way you can look at all of information on one single sheet vs. flipping thru 20 different sheets.

Original article was published at;  How to avoid information overload when looking at houses

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