10/02/2026
See the house once after dark before you write the offer. It is the cheapest piece of due diligence there is and almost nobody does it.
Showings happen when it is convenient, which usually means a bright Saturday morning or a Tuesday at lunch. That is a specific version of a house and it is the flattering one. A neighborhood at 9pm on a weeknight is a different place, and it is the one you would actually be living in.
What you are looking for is not dramatic. Whether the street is lit. What you can hear from the bedroom side that you could not hear at 11am. Whether people are out. How the parking works when everybody is home, which is nothing like noon on a Saturday. What is lit up nearby that you did not notice in daylight. What traffic the street carries in the evening.
And the one that changes how people feel about a house more than any of the others: the walk from where you would actually park to the front door, after dark.
You do not need to go in. You do not need permission to sit in your car on a public street for ten minutes.
Ten minutes, and it changes decisions more often than you would think.
Send this to whoever is house hunting right now.
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