Five Questions To Ask Before Buying An Apartment

Christina Gardner

Buying An Apartment

Buying a property is one of the most important investments you will make in your life, and it will cost you several million. Therefore, choosing the ideal house or apartment for you is essential.

Of course, you will look at the price and the feasibility of the purchase, as well as the alternatives that a Mortgage Loan can give you to finance it, but there are other questions you should ask yourself, small things, which usually escape at the moment and then, with everything bought, they appear.

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Before signing your department papers, ask yourself the following questions:

What is around the building?

A classic question that few usually remember when they go to see an apartment. For this reason, when choosing a department: you have to look at the neighborhood. What warehouses, restaurants, or shops are nearby and if some of them may be a plus for your experience in the place … or a problem that affects your life.

What is the traffic like near your building?

You go on a Saturday afternoon to see a Department that interests you. Everything calm and happy. But what about the week? Today, avenues are not the only streets that attract traffic congestion. Many motorists bet on taking interior streets to save time … the problem is that they all occur at the same time.

What are the common spaces like in the building?

When listing apartments for purchase, many real estate agencies will offer swimming pools, green areas, barbecue areas, gyms, and more. Before signing for the property, make sure these common spaces are as seen in pilots or brochures. Especially in buildings that are sold in green, the conditions of these spaces can vary … for the worse. 

How is the security of the building?

This does not have to do so much with the security of the neighborhood, but with the accesses, exits, and security measures inside the building. When listing an apartment, look at emergency exits, a number of elevators, stairs, hallway lighting, and security cameras installed on site. Also, pay attention to the parking lots. Are the entrances to your car safe and comfortable?

How is the quality of life within the department?

These are always the smallest details, and they always escape us when we visit an apartment (especially one that we like because we ignore these details). Are noises heard from other apartments? How is the arrival of sunlight? How does it respond to winter or summer? How is the system of pipes and boiler?

Most brokers or realtors trust that the interested buyer will simply pass up on these details, which sound ridiculous or exaggerated and focus on the macro. But remember, buying an apartment is buying an on-site life experience. If it affects your quality of life, don’t overlook it!

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Four Safety Tips For A Real Estate Agent

Christina Gardner

Being a real estate seller involves interacting and being in constant contact with people you don’t know. When it comes to the commercialization of good of such magnitude and not knowing who you are dealing with, you may find yourself vulnerable to certain frequent criminal actions in this sector.

To avoid this and increase your security, it is important that you take some preventive measures in order to reduce the risks to which, as a real estate agent, you may be exposed.

For this reason, we share some prevention measures and safety tips that will help you carry out a better execution of your procedure, making it safer and more efficient.

  1. Verify customer information. When you are facing a new client, it is important that you ask a series of questions that allow you to know a little about the person. Data such as your occupation, your origin, your mobile, and landline, or office number if you have one, the means by which he found out about you, if he has children, a partner, or if you are only looking for a property for him.
  2. Avoid providing personal data. Avoid giving personal information when talking to your clients. Make sure that everything is always kept in a professional relationship. One of the best safety tips is to always separate your social networks, email, and all contact information for work from all your personal media.
  3. Follow protocols. Follow security protocols for all contact activities you have with your clients from the beginning. You can, for example, make a form where you can enter the information about the person, ask them to fill out a visit record before taking a tour of any property, request a number of people to whom you will show the property and a copy of an official identification of each, always inform the office about your tour appointments, schedules and customer information with whom you will visit the properties, etc.
  4. Keep your cell phone always at hand. The cell phone is in itself a fundamental tool of the real estate agent to respond and always be aware of calls, messages, or emails from customers. Take advantage of this tool also for your safety. Whenever you make tours of buildings, it is important that you make sure you have enough battery and that you have an emergency number on hand to help you in case you ever find yourself in a difficult situation.

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Five Safety Tips For The Office

Christina Gardner

Regardless of the size of our company or organization, individual and shared workspaces must be monitored, as they are spots that turn out to be the preferred targets for thieves. Taking into account internal security, that is, the one that involves workers; and the external one, that of the property and personnel outside the company.

Access control to the company

It is important to have an employee database that includes their entry and exit times, to have greater control over the flow of people. As well as a visit book, to record the access of people outside the company.

Drawers with locks or safety boxes

There must be at least one lockable drawer or specialized safe, so you can store documents or valuables without worries. It may seem like a simple action, but it is effective.

The calm and friendly work environment

When working in a tense and irritable environment, forgetfulness, irritability, and hostile and impulsive behaviors tend to be generated. So an optimal environment will prevent workers from becoming clueless and maintaining positive behavior towards their colleagues and open to support in any situation.

Video surveillance system

It helps protect the property, facilities, collaborators, and visitors. It is obtaining constant monitoring to avoid internal or external theft through assaults, obtaining a video backup of the activities that serve as evidence for situations that may or may not develop within and outside the company.

Security guards

Having intramural patrimonial security offers greater tranquility to the collaborators, visitors, and clients of the company. Making them feel safe and prepared against danger or any risky condition that could happen.

By following these safety tips, we will help keep calm in our organizations and promote a culture of safety among their collaborators.…