Have you ever thought about asking the neighbors questions before you buy a house?

Hey, everyone, Rich Dallas Berkshire Hathaway, the Dallas-Fincham Team and on today's episode of Q&A Sunday, we're gonna cover five clever questions to ask the neighbors before you buy a house. Yes. You can talk to the neighbors. If you see a neighbor outside, there is nothing to stop you from stopping by and just saying hello. Hey, I'm thinking about buying a house in this neighborhood. What do you think of it? That's number one. Number one question would be what's it like living here? They're gonna be able to tell you if six months out of the year, you know, traffic's bad and the other half, it's not because people leave for the summer or, you know, half of the year we get a great breeze. And the other half of the year, we don't, those are the little things that they're gonna be able to be be insightful on and be able to tell you a little bit more about it.

One of the other questions is if you could change anything about where you live, what would it be so that there can open up a whole wide range of topics of, oh my gosh, I would love it. If X, Y, or Z were different. And that would just be something that you might be able to take into consideration and be like, Ooh, I never thought of that. I never would've. I don't wanna live in a neighborhood where that's an issue or, uh, you know, whatever, or, oh, wow. That sounds great. I love the fact that, you know, we have five block parties a year, but maybe they don't like that. They have five block parties a year who knows. So it just lets a little bit of more insight in your world. How safe is it now you can go and you can find out all that about, um, you know, on the crime, you know, the police websites and all that stuff.

But ask a neighbor, ask a neighbor. You know, most of the neighbors are probably gonna say, I don't even lock my doors. Uh, that's a very common thing here in Pittsburgh that people don't lock their doors because the neighborhoods are generally pretty safe. Uh, you know, obviously there's certain areas that you would, but that's the thing. What are the other questions? How do people socialize? Is it a neighborhood where everybody closes their garage door? As soon as they get in, nobody goes outside or is it a neighborhood where everybody hangs out on their front porch, walks their dogs and says hello to everybody. Do you wave to everybody? As you go through the neighborhood, those are little things that make a neighborhood, you know, feel a little bit more like home. And depending on what you want, you might be that neighbor who wants to go home and not socialize.

You might be that neighborhood neighbor who wants to go out and you want to socialize all the time. So now another one what's the commute. Like now that might be specific to, depending on who you ask, because you can be asking a stay at home. Mom, you know, you can ask a person who works from home now, or it could be somebody that works in downtown Pittsburgh. Now that question is obviously gonna be, you know, wide range of what you get. But again, they're gonna be able to tell you it's busy during rush hour. It's busy during when the school's come in and out, uh, it's busy here. It's busy there, or it's not busy here or there, or whenever now another bonus question number six would be, is it kid friendly? Now you can't ask an agent that question, you can't ask an agent.

Most of these questions, because most of these questions get into fair housing. And that's why you have to ask the neighbors, these questions. Because as an agent, I am not allowed to tell you if it's kid friendly. The answer to that question is, do you see playgrounds in or play sets in the back of people's neighborhoods? Do you see basketball hoops? That's a good sign that there's kids in the neighborhood, but I'm not allowed to tell you if it is, or isn't a good neighborhood for kids. Because what I say might not be the same definition of good for you. Now, those were five questions with a one bonus question on what to ask neighbors before you're buying a house. So don't forget to do your homework and ask around. You never know who you know, in that neighborhood. And if you just see somebody outside, stop 'em and ask them again. Rich Dallas, Berkshire Hathaway, The Dallas-Fincham Team. Fantastic to see you on this Sunday. If you have any questions you wanna see on the future episode, let me know 412-965-6387 Do you have any questions about the market in general? What's happening in your world, your neighborhood reach out to me or somebody on the team and we would love to talk you through the whole process. Take care.