Descriptive Terms In Real Estate Ads - More Definitions
By Raynor James, Fri Dec 9th

If you are buying or selling a home, the chances are good youstruggle with the meaning of descriptive real estate terms. Hereare explanations and definitions for more terms.

"Shed Dormers"

These are often seen in Dutch colonial style houses and are flatroofed dormers. Sometimes these dormers are single windows, butoften they are two or three windows side by side with one flatroof.

"Blind Dormer

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Window"

Sometimes builders construct fake dormer windows to addarchitectural interest to new houses. They are at attic levelbut can't be seen from the attic because the roof of the housecovers access to them.

"Oversize Garage"

Ads often say how many cars a garage will hold. Then they addthe word "oversize" as in "oversize 2-car garage." What isusually meant is that there is room for storage, or a work benchin addition to space for the cars. Occasionally it simply meansyou can open a car door wide enough to actually get out withboth cars in the garage!

"Gourmet Kitchen"

This phrase is intended to convey the idea that a very good cookcan happily work here. That may or may not be the case, but itdoes usually mean that the kitchen is fairly large andattractive.

"Great Room"

I've seen this used in two distinctly different ways. The firstis to describe a living room, dining room, and kitchen in a veryopen floor plan. The area typically has a high ceiling. Thesecond way I've seen it used is when what we'd normally call afamily room has a high, often coffered, ceiling, a fireplacewith a dramatically massive mantle, and perhaps an upstairsbalcony overlooking it. I think this may stem from the idea of a"great hall" in old English houses.

If you can get the verbiage down, you'll be way ahead in thereal estate game. Look for future articles on this subject orvisit our site to read more terms.

About the author:Raynor James is with the FSBO site - http://www.fsboamerica.org- homes For Sale By Owner. Visit our home buying page athttp://www.fsboamerica.org/buyer.cfm to see homes for sale byowner.

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