Why can’t we agree on a house after touring?
Couples often leave a showing with different memories and no shared scores. You are then arguing about two different lists. Write the ratings on the same homes.
After the tours.
Can’t agree on a house?
You walked the same Saturday and still cannot pick. Often you are not rating the same homes.
You are scoring different lists
One of you remembers the light at 412 Willow Creek Drive, Walnut Creek, CA. The other cannot drop the yard on the first house. The argument sounds like taste. It is often the list: nobody wrote the scores down, so each person is defending a memory.
This is not a reason to stretch the budget. It is a shortlist problem. Rate the same homes.
Rate the same homes
Put every house you would still buy on one list. Rate those homes — same night if you can — and read the scores together. The house you cannot drop should still beat the others on paper.
If two people are ready and one is not, that belongs on the list before an offer does.
Start the shortlist.
Kinwyn is a household home-search shortlist: type the address — not a listing-site link — keep one shortlist, rate the same homes, and decide from your people’s scores. Free is one person and three homes, no card. Household is $12/mo or $79/yr.
Questions
How do we rate the same homes?
Put the addresses you would still buy on one shortlist. Each person rates those homes. Decide from those scores, not from who spoke last in the car.
Does someone have to give in?
Not as a rule. If the scores are honest and the same homes are on the list, the next step is usually clearer. If two people are ready and one is not, write that on the list before you offer.
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