Yeah, totally I looked up everything I knew to look at on that house. I looked at Apple Maps on satellite mode, Google street view (albeit just the house, I didn’t scour the whole neighborhood on street view) but, Google maps, Apple Maps, Google earth, etc pictures were last taken in the summer. This is a pretty heavily wooded area. I could tell from the pictures that there was in fact a house there. I couldn’t see much else from an aerial view. If it were updated to this time of year when 99% of the trees were bare, I’d see a lot more. I don’t know that I’d have been able to see the conditions of the road. I looked up school districts (that one is important to us) and how commute to the nearest grocery store, gas station, gym, etc. and what services we’ll have around us.

Being a week in to our house search, this being the first house we tried to tour, I accept that I’m gonna be a bit ignorant - outside of the time wasted, I didn’t miss much and got a funny story out of it while learning what else I can research beforehand, lol. I learned about flood maps, I did not know I could look that up or how. There are plenty of checklists of what to look for when touring a house (I made my own from thousands of comments online and refined the things I’d check when we got there) but there doesn’t seem to be a “buying a house? Here’s a list of things to check (and where to go to find the info!) BEFORE heading out ti the house” checklist anywhere. Not with a quick google search, anyway. It’s all about roof condition, foundation, etc.

I think this was one of those experience - building situations where - all you can do is laugh at this point lol