Drawing floorplan

[Stone]

I find that a basic interior sketch can be a good memory aid when working on the report a couple of days after the inspection. I try to always get the sketch in on the day of the inspection, even if I don't work on the report immediately.

 

[Mountain Man]

I always fill in the interior. Don't use icons, except to show the location of the fireplace, but I do interior walls including stairways and closests. It looks good, helps me remember my walk through, and makes the UW happy. That is what I sold my bizniz on, more than typical to minimize the call backs.

 

[Restrain]

Unless the home suffers from functional obsolescence, I never include the interior walls. Haven't had a client request them in years. All they're concerned about is the square footage, bedrooms and baths. And that has included 20,000 + square foot homes.

After all, they don't read anything but the 2nd page anyway.

 

[Kim Grant Matarazzo]

Debra: Lee Ann has a good point. I provide the client with what they require, HOWEVER, when I do field inspection I do draw the dwelling to scale including interior rooms. All of my trainees have been taught to do it this way also because the main thing to remember is that you don't want egg on your face if you have to return to property for not having all of the characteristics. I was a trainee 20 years ago and two things my trainer taught me: NUMBER 1: no matter what, absolutely without question do no leave the property until your measurements are correct and you have a floor plan to scale in your notes and, Number 2: you are the eyes of the lender, remember that when you look at houses.

This dilegence during field inspection saved my butt when a homeowner complained to my state board about his floor plan. All I had to do was fax over my field notes and all was well.


Good luck...
Kim

 

[Farm Gal]

Kim:

:lol: :lol: I am going out today to remeasure a complex property with more angles than straight lines... A prominant lawyer in town is protesting his taxes, and with some justification, as it appears that the county thinks it has over 25% more finished area than there really is!

My 'to scale' drawing (as always made on drafting paper) had a lot of erasures and 'fixes' to close certain areas especially on the multi-dormered irregurlary added on-to upper level

Given the intended user and the CLIENT :roll: , I want to be very very very sure I am perfect, not just 'close'! :!:

 

[Dee Dee]

LeeAnn,
You certainly get some doozies, don't you? :lol:
Just curious, if the attorney had objections to the county measurements, couldn't he simply demand that the county people come back to re-measure?

 

[Farm Gal]

:lol: :lol: sometimes I wonder what I DID to someone in a past life, all this in a week and USPAP and another 8 hour course too... :roll:

They COULD ask the county to remeasure, however, this means they would have to let them in the door, which is not a good idea, and lets just say that my taking 2.5 hours to get all the angles and such correct would NOT occurr withthe county. I get along pretty well with them and I talked the folks into a consutation in which I provide detailed sketch, and note and photograph some of the property defects, (rotten windows) and let the county worry about the value .

Oh well...

 

[Frederick R. Ruffell]

Your sketch is not intended to be a blue print. I have never drawn interior partitions unless ther was some condition (i.e. functional Ob. or built w/o permits etc.) The sketch is to demonstrate how you arrived at your GLA. Condo's should always be measured with interior dimensions and your GLA should be smaller than the assessors record (they use the GLA as determined from the builders blueprints as submitted in the permit application process). I always get RE agents screaming at me that my measurments are wrong untill I tell them this. I always add a comment about the sketch being an approximation.