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Message: [QUOTE="Dove, post: 2701401, member: 571"] When you lock in on some target properties go to Town Hall and peruse the property file: Banks/insurers hate financing noncompliance and may require sellers to show permits for various work done. So, if a seller is hyping a major kitchen remodel and a screened in porch there better be some approvals. Roofing requires a building permit and an unpermitted roof job can stall a closing. Windows and siding are maybes. Get a Schedule A and any other deed that may show there are easements or right of ways on a property. Would hate to see you a property to find out old man Green can let his goats cross the rear 40 foot strip every day. Or a property you're looking at has a view easement granted to a neighbor. Some subdivisions may have Home Associations. Some people are oblivious to this and learn the hard way. If you look at a property on septic know what how a system works and review that property file. Ask about obscure taxes. Middletown has a fire tax. What's a view tax? Finally...observe the neighbors. Would hate to see you move next door to an alchie or barking dog owner guy. ***Our first house was a great little cape in Meriden. Excellent bang for our buck at $130k. At $240k you should find something in a nicer neighborhood. Taxes were a bear but all cities kind suck. [/QUOTE]