Scio in Latin is ‘I know.’ It’s a beautiful as atoms – both ‘sc’ and ‘io’ denote beautiful ideas – but it’s ‘sc’ in English that lends so much ammunition to my cannonades of wit. We have already had The Screed – Sun City Real Estate Eviscerations and Dismay – and now I inaugurate SCUBA – the Sun City Underground Buyer’s Agenda.
I don’t even represent Sun City home-buyers, but I’m not sure anyone else does, either. Luckily, Del Webb’s homes are the very best of ‘good bones’. If you stay on top of the roof, so to speak, the block home beneath it will last for centuries.
And yet: A retirement home that is itself old enough to retire will have required successive updates to deliver on the promise of its good bones. The buyer’s agenda is to nail those issues down, discounting for anything that is either missing or undone.
So here is my EZ punch list for every home, for every buyer in Sun City:
1. No fridge?
2. No window treatments?
3. No landscaping?
4. Popcorn ceilings?
5. Single-pane windows?
6. Two-prong wiring?
The first two mean time, money and effort before you can move in. For the third, the neighbors are good and ready for you to stop looking like a rental. And if the home needs serious upgrades to remain competitive, you will do them on the way out if not on the way in.
Only a plumber can tell you if the pipes need help, but you can see everything I’m talking about in the photos in the MLS listing. None are deal-killers, necessarily, but they all make a difference, both on what you should pay as a buyer and on what you will reap, in due course, as a seller.
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