Where cozy means tiny and charming means needs work.
The brutally honest (or diplomatically evasive) comments agents collect after property showings, ranging from 'loved it!' to 'we could smell the previous owner's choices from the driveway.' It's Yelp reviews for houses, but the house can't respond.
Zoning rules dictating the minimum distance a building must sit from property lines, streets, or other structures, preventing neighbors from building right up to your fence line. It's mandatory personal space for properties.
An additional fee charged by HOAs or municipalities for specific improvements or repairs not covered by regular dues or taxes. It's the surprise bill that reminds you that common ownership comes with uncommon expenses.
The practice of separating people or things, which can range from voluntary self-sorting to legally enforced discrimination that stains history books. In genetics, it's the boring-but-important Mendelian process where parent organisms pass only one allele to offspring. Real estate agents know it as that uncomfortable topic from the industry's shameful past that fair housing laws were created to combat.
A contract where one lien holder agrees to take a backseat to another in the priority line for getting paid if things go sideways, voluntarily accepting second-class status. It's cutting in line, but in reverse and with lawyers involved.