Assess Property Exterior via Google Earth

this incredible um resource on the internet now that you can look at homes worldwide and what we typically do is get on google or type in an address it'll just place you right on the street and you have this little like little icon this little man you can place this guy anywhere on a house and it gives you a view of that house and you can almost get sometimes a 360 degree view of the house you can look that down um a view of it down you can look at you know sideways at all different angles and now it's just like i'm there in person so i'm starting to gather information of the home how difficult is this home gonna be is it gonna be one story is it gonna be two-story um you can see you can even determine you know how much prep work is gonna be on this house um is there brick is there stucco you could even see is there other um buildings that they possibly would want painted do they want this shed painted is the houses have a detached garage there's a lot of information that you can look at uh using google earth to study and you know come up with your estimate you know do um estimate on the house now with a lot of this being said i do want to say uh one thing after painting for so many years eventually you begin to learn if you really study the art and craft of painting and doing exterior repaints most houses take a typical amount of time a standard amount of time to do the prep work to power wash it and prep it and paint it and they're very um very standard now in your location it could look a lot different but where i'm at it was very insane most of the houses we're painting are 15 to 20 years old have the same amount of prep and so this this method worked and was very effective for us but we'll look at um we'll use google earth look at the house then we'll uh take uh an application on the internet like zillow.com or