The Field Guide

The Field Guide

Before the sign goes up

A FOUNDRY COMPANY FIELD GUIDE · NO. 10 The work that decides whether a sale closes smoothly happens weeks before we photograph the kitchen. ...

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The Field Guide

The pre-approval season

A FOUNDRY COMPANY FIELD GUIDE · NO. 09 A pre-approval tells you the maximum a lender is presently willing to consider, and holds a rate for a ...

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How to read a neighbourhood

A FOUNDRY COMPANY FIELD GUIDE · NO. 08 A neighbourhood shows you a different version of itself depending on when you arrive. Four visits cover ...

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Condo documents, decoded

A FOUNDRY COMPANY FIELD GUIDE · NO. 07 A condominium purchase comes with a package of documents that gets opened once and rarely again. ...

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Possession day, by the hour

A FOUNDRY COMPANY FIELD GUIDE · NO. 06 Possession day is the day the money moves, the title transfers and the keys change hands. Almost none ...

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The offer, annotated

A FOUNDRY COMPANY FIELD GUIDE · NO. 05 An offer is a set of terms and price is one of them. The other four are the deposit, the conditions, ...

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The first-viewing checklist

A FOUNDRY COMPANY FIELD GUIDE · NO. 04 A first viewing runs about fifteen minutes and the kitchen takes the greater part of it. Four habits ...

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The 8 p.m. test

A FOUNDRY COMPANY FIELD GUIDE · NO. 03 Go back after dark. A house shown at two in the afternoon on a Saturday is a house at its easiest hour, ...

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Listing language, translated

A FOUNDRY COMPANY FIELD GUIDE · NO. 02 Real estate listings run on a small vocabulary of words that have drifted from their dictionary ...

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