When a home matters, this is everything knowable about it, read for you and never the seller. A single verdict up top, the real cost to own, five plain-English chapters — and behind them, 34 layers of public record, gaps included. This is what "go deep" buys.
A listing tells you what the seller wants you to know. The brief tells you the rest. It opens with HomeZero's read — a one-line verdict, a confidence meter, and the factors driving it — then "what the listing says" (the seller's pitch, named as such), who listed it, and five chapters that answer the questions a buyer actually has.
The spine is the appendix: thirty-four layers of public record — water, hazards, history, taxes — each one shown with what it says, including the ones that came back empty. Nothing hidden, nothing hand-waved.
A real Paonia home. Faithful to the live delta.homezero.md brief layout.
Priced right against the record for a single-level brick ranch on three flat city lots, with irrigation water that actually conveys. The catches are real but ordinary: it's on septic, not sewer, and the roof is near the end of its life. Budget those and this is the rare home priced for what it is.
Yes — it sits right at the assessor's record for this lot size and vintage, and below the two comparable triple-lot sales this year.
Two shares of Fire Mountain Canal irrigation transfer with the deed — confirmed in the water-rights layer, not just the listing's word.
Low and steady — paid-off solar, modest taxes, septic instead of a sewer bill. The one lumpy cost is a roof inside five years.
Septic age and the roof. Neither is a dealbreaker, but both belong in your number before you offer.
One owner since 1998, a permitted addition in 2004, no flood or fire history on record.
Thirty-four layers of public record stand behind the read above — here is every one, gaps included.
Is five chapters the right depth, or should the verdict + cost stand alone with the rest collapsed? Do the alternate lenses (Freedom number / Signal / Lives) earn their tabs? Is the 34-layer appendix a selling point or a wall? Fork and cut/expand.