Obtain Square Footage & Build Year from Zillow.com

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Following the visual inspection, the property address is entered into real estate listing websites such as Zillow.com. These platforms are invaluable for retrieving precise, objective data about the home. The primary piece of information sought is the square footage of the property, as this forms the fundamental basis for the painting cost calculation. Additionally, the construction year of the house is extracted. This date is critical for two reasons: firstly, it helps in estimating the extent of prep work required (older homes generally need more preparation), and secondly, it serves as a crucial indicator for the potential presence of lead-based paint, particularly for properties built before 1978. The company states they will not paint homes with lead-based paint due to legal and health liabilities, referring such cases to specialists. Any discrepancies between client-provided information and online data are also noted.

Goal: Acquire precise property dimensions and age to inform the estimate and identify potential lead paint concerns.

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Computer Apple iMac — Accessing real estate websites for property data, Zillow.com Zillow

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on the internet like zillow.com or realtor.com type in the address and now you can get all kinds of information about the home and one of the key things is is the four square feet our estimates my estimates are based on four square feet and four square feet only on exterior estimates and so i'm gonna gather the four square feet my wife asked she'll always ask um on the phone you know how many square feet is your house and then you're going to compare what the customer said with what zillow said if there's any type of discrepancy there could have been some type of remodel some type of addition and you might have to go back and ask the customer but you're gonna compare those numbers but you you can even on realtruck.com there's a lot of times the homes will have um if the house was recently sold or something you can get these uh video tours of the house you can walk right through somebody's house have a video tour if you're doing an interior estimate this way and we've done it this way before but they do exterior tours of the house too so you can gather all kinds of information but the key thing is um square feet and then the age of the home the age of the home is going to tell you uh how much prep work there is going to be on this house if this house is only five years old there's probably going to be significantly less prep work than if it was 25 years old uh one of the age things we're looking at is that cut off i think it's like 1974. i'm not sure but there's if it's beyond um older than that then there could be lead-based paint in the house and we do not paint houses that have lead-based paint in them anymore so i don't want to take on that liability responsibility so we don't even write an estimate for it so we'll ask the customer you know on the phone and if they say you know my house is 60 years old then we'll just write down the phone and say we don't uh do lead based homes because there's pride lead-based paint in it and we'll refer it out to somebody but you can gather all this information up and you look at the house and uh my estimates and i it's very simple i uh a lot of the things when i'm painting

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