Video — The Best Free Resources for Keeping Track of Homes As You Shop Real Estate

Watch this short video for some useful tips for the overall home-search process. These include:

Take lots of pictures of each. Outside, key rooms, yard, garage and features you care about. Comparing pictures is faster than re-visiting.

Document and "score" as you go.

Measure — ideally, the same measurements for each place.

The Federal Housing and Urban Development agency - HUD - provides a helpful scorecard to use. They recently moved the scorecard; heres the new web address:

https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/CHECKLIST-EN.PDF

Alternatively, keeping record on a smartphone with an app or spreadsheet may facilitate the process, especially for couples and families.