House Updates
Starting the Search
We started this whole process back in February by reaching out to a friend who is an agent here in LA. Paige has known her and her family for 8 years now as she started babysitting for their young son right after graduating from grad school. They walked, talked, and jumped right in looking at houses online. With cases still surging in LA open houses were banned and you needed to sign multiple waivers to get in to see houses by appointment only. Then came the booties, hand sanitizer, and double masks.
Ready. Set. GO!
Needless to say, we jumped in with both feel and go to hunting. Without having open houses you had to make an appointment to see anything and those filled up fast, especially if the house was occupied. Every time a house came on the market that met our criteria we would get an email and have to immediately ask our agent if we could get in to see it and then coordinate schedules. There were a lot of whirlwind days where we would go and see multiple houses back to back to back. Lot's of P.E.A.D.'s to sign and proof to be sent as no one wanted to waste a showing on someone that was "just browsing". We learned a lot in those early days of what to look at and how to determine what was a deal-bender or a deal-breaker. I remember one house early on that looked like it had potential in the pictures but once you got there you could see the outlets were broken and there was clearly an electrical fire behind a wall. Surprisingly, this wasn't even the worst of them.