South-Facing Driveway: The Winter Detail Lancaster Buyers Never Check

Here is a winter detail Lancaster buyers almost never check, and it decides your whole January: which way does the driveway face?

A south-facing driveway gets the sun all morning. The snow melts, the ice is gone by nine, and you are backing out clean while your neighbors are still chipping away. A north-facing driveway sits in the shade all day, and that same snow turns into an ice rink that lasts until March. Same street, same storm, totally different winter.

I have watched buyers fall in love with a house in July and never once think about what January looks like there. Then the first snow comes and they are salting and shoveling a driveway that never sees the sun.

So before you write an offer, go back on a cold morning and look. Where does the sun hit, and when? Where does the snow pile up, and does it block the walkway to the front door? Who plows, and where does the plow push it? Does the sidewalk stay icy all day because the house shades it?

The house is where you sleep. The driveway is what you shovel. Both of them are part of the home you are buying.

This is the kind of thing you only learn by living through a Lancaster winter, or by having an agent who has. If you are eyeing a house right now, I will run the winter questions on it with you before you offer, the driveway, the roof, the heat, all of it.

Call or text me at (717) 406-7337.

Austin Curtiss | Coldwell Banker Realty