Emphasis on accuracy. Limiting your Liability.
REALTORS
What Makes Us Different?
We are licensed Agents certified as Home Measurement Specialists - HMS. Our Emphasis is on Accuracy and Limiting your Liabilty.
Our measurements and square footage calculations follow ANSI Standards, the accepted method used by Appraisers and, with over a decade of experience in the real estate industry, we understand equity and the importance of square footage in determining the value of your home.
What makes us different?
Measurements and Square Footage
Square Footage is the currency of real estate.
The actual size of a home, and most importantly its Gross Living Area (GLA), is typically the most vital characteristic having the largest impact on a home’s value. There are many rules and restrictions to how a home can be measured such as:
what exactly qualifies as “living space” vs. what is “non-livable space
when to measure inside or outside of walls
how to count square footage under stairs
do sloped ceilings or ceiling heights make a difference
what’s the difference between finished, partial, and unfinished basements
what’s considered above grade and below grade
Because of these rules, any changes, additions, or conversions made to a home can affect the total living area differently than you may think.
Square Up Measuring works with Realtors to give your clients an accurate home size and square footage evaluation for their home, to give you truthful data. Home buyers and sellers understand price-per-square-foot and you can help them understand the power in getting credit for every square foot. Using a Home Measurement Specialist (HMS®) with Square Up Measuring helps you protect your clients and yourself. In the hectic world of real estate and liability worries, you can be sure you are protecting your client’s greatest asset and your business.
“Guestimate” is not a word you want to hear.
Tax Records: Your Liability Exposed?
In every residential transaction, at some point, a home’s size will impact its perception of value. County tax records and other data can have major inconsistencies when it comes to the size of a property. These discrepancies can arise from many different situations: incorrect data from previous sales, errors in reporting, different completed measurements compared to plan specifications, wrongly labeled builder floorplans, etc. However the biggest culprit for discrepancy is a county appraiser does not typically measure the inside of a residence. This means the interior layout of a property home is an unknown and conversions such as an enclosed attic or garage may be missed completely. Tax Records become a “guestimate” in regard to the true livable square footage. Even new construction is susceptible to errors in reporting. Don’t expose yourself to increased liability. “Guestimate” is not a word you want to hear when your responsible for calculating the value on your client’s largest, lifetime investment.
