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OP, I have never run into a buyer for whom the exact year built was a deal breaker (unless they were dead set on a new build and then it was within a couple of years if a house was built in late 2014, say, as a spec home and didn't sell until into 2015).
I've had people who have particular decades in mind, and some who don't want anything earlier than 1990, but if the perfect house was built in 1985, they're not going to pass on it.
Here, for the most part (90+ % of the time), the year built is filled in automatically from the tax records (where you would go to find out), anyway.
Which is to say, if you say that the 1986 house can't be sold because it can't be definitely stated what year it was built, you don't know buyers (other than yourself) very well. You're a definite outlier in that regard.
No that's not what I said.
But take a camp. With camps, it makes a BIG difference if it was built in 1930 or 1980, and it's often hard to tell at first sight (they're camps).
Some realtors around here put "unknown" on EVERY SINGLE camp listing they have online (unless they are new builds).
See what I mean?
If a campground has no structures does it have a year built?
Would a search for the business name in the secretary of state's website or other business name registration process (city/county) have the date the name was registered?
If a campground has no structures does it have a year built?
Would a search for the business name in the secretary of state's website or other business name registration process (city/county) have the date the name was registered?
first, it does seem like a local, not a nationwide, issue.
second, I for one completely agree that when a home for sale hits the local MLS and thus is syndicated nationally, that the totality of information should be as accurate and complete as possible. It's good for our sellers.
lastly, as has been touched on, imagine how stupid that we might be liable for claiming a house as 1939 based upon available information, when it turns out it was 1940 and wee get sued by a Buyer for false representation.
The takeaway from this thread is pretty simple -- ensure your data is as accurate as possible.
If you have an authoritative data source, disclose the data source and date of that data. If one or more fields is estimated or unconfirmed, state which field(s) and explain why it is a guess/estimate.
Disclose what you did and why you did it.
Easy, peasy.
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