Master Spreadsheet for Prospective Home Purchase Considerations
Updated: Oct 22
In this link, I've created a master spreadsheet for home purchase considerations for buyers. I'm unaware of any publicly available spreadsheet that can come close to being as comprehensive as this one for the task of comparing potential properties (homes) being considered for purchase. While some of the hyperlinks & information are specific to SE VA, much of the content is applicable nationwide.
How to best use the spreadsheet:
Edits & Access Are Best on a Laptop or Desktop
This spreadsheet can be accessed from a mobile device, but is best accessed and edited on a desktop/laptop.
Land vs Homes
Some items are specific to homes, thus row 4, and others are specific to land only, thus row 5.
Shifting Columns Important to You to the Left
Included in the spreadsheet is row 3, labeled as "Importance to you (1-10, with 10 being important and 1 being irrelevant), then possible to order by Importance for cells to the right of "Reviews for Builder". For those columns to the right of "reviews for builder" if a buyer is not concerned about a certain section, or if it doesn't apply and never will, you may want to eliminate the column entirely from your consideration, or move it far to the right. Conversely, for those issues that are most important to you, you may want to move them to the left of the spreadsheet (immediately to the right of "importance to you". To help with that, see row 3, input the items based on your importance, and you can sort yourself using the desktop version of Google Sheets. To change the order on a desktop or laptop:
Click on the 1-2 letter name of a vertical column (i.e. "BC", "BQ" etc.). When you do so, the whole column should be highlighted.
Click on the 2-letter name of a vertical column again, this time, holding down on the mouse while dragging the column to the left or to the right. When doing so, be sure to not pass the orange section on the left
Please do not rearrange items to the left of the farthest right orange item & please don't change the order of the orange items if Adam is your agent, since he has created a property view to snyc with the spreadsheet in mass based on that order to however many properties are within one REIN MLS search in less than 1 minute of copying & pasting (which would otherwise take possibly more than 30 minutes if for a dozen properties).
Agent Disclosure on Plagiarism
If you are an agent, you are welcome to share the spreadsheet with others as long as the title remains unchanged. If you want to make significant modifications to the spreadsheet, my name and the name of my company should remain in the title.
Related:
Home Elements to View Online Prior to a Showing Request
House Issues by Year for Purchasers
SE VA City Information & Real Estate Property Info
Crime When Searching for a Home