mw4man Posted March 27, 2018 Report Share Posted March 27, 2018 hello... (not certain where this post should go...placed it here...Mr. Administrator, please feel free to move it if need be) Having a very difficult time determining real/true building age for commercial buildings (& even some residential). LoopNet has become just the pits. NJTaxRecords never gives the year. NJParcels is a bust. RealtyTrac is OK sometimes. Then there's the individual County property records search dialogs...most times they return a request to read: "no records found". I'm at a brick wall...the industry I'm in (Loss Control/Commercial Insurance Inspections) always requires this info...on every damn report (just like they do for 'other tenants in a commercial building'...like we don't have enough to do w/ all the typical info required & we have all this extra time to just run around a building & grab names off doors and such). Anyway...does anyone know a reliable free (or cheap) source for this information...???...sure would appreciate it if you do. thanx, mark4man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 (edited) In my area, it's a bag of tricks, no reliable method that I know of. I check appliance labels, serial number decoders, MEP materials, toilet tank lids for manufacture dates, etc. Edited March 28, 2018 by Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent Tarter Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 I just google the address and go by what pulls up first. Usually it's Zillow, Trulia, or the real estate listing. I state the age source in report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Raymond Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 Real estate listings are horribly inaccurate. In my area, most buildings before 1880 are listed as built in 1900. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 Just my opinion, but relying on any zillow type site for ages is a slippery slope. with a bit of knowledge you use site condition and all that Marc states above. Once in a while I will use public records for commercial. This not to say you should not use zillow sites, just that you should not rely upon them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Baird Posted March 28, 2018 Report Share Posted March 28, 2018 I have met realtors on site that would not even discuss something as on-site measurable as square footage because they considered the subject to be too litigious. The older a building is the more likely it will have been added to at different times. In Italy a building I entered to see an art show was built in 1430 something and remodeled in 1640. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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