Eave for Buyers reads a lot of paper on your behalf and puts a rough number on things. This article says plainly what that number is and is not, what happens to the seller’s documents, and the two lines Eave will not cross: it never rates a school or a neighbourhood, and it never reads a listing you did not hand it.
Not an inspection or appraisal
Every cost you see in Eave for Buyers is a range from walk-through photos, the documents on the candidate, and a curated table of typical repair costs by category, size, and region. It is there to help you decide which house to offer on, not to replace the people who stand in the house. Rough ranges from photos and documents. Not an inspection. Not an appraisal. Get both before you buy.
How estimates are made
A photo or a note becomes an update item with a category and a size. The range comes from the regional table for that category and size. The model decides which band a finding falls into; it never invents a dollar figure. Each range carries a confidence and the evidence behind it, so you can see why the number is what it is and disagree with it.
What we do with the seller’s documents
A document you or your agent puts on a candidate stays on that candidate. Eave reads it only when you ask, and every read is metered so you always know what has been read. Originals are kept. A newer version of the same document replaces the old one for facts, both are kept, and what changed is shown. When two documents disagree about the same fact, you get a decision to make, never a silent overwrite. At close, the documents for the home you bought move into its Purchase folder; the rest archive with the search. Deleting a document erases it.
Fair housing
Eave shows the school district a home is zoned into, by name, with a link to the district’s own site. It does not rate schools, neighbourhoods, or people, and it never will. Flood, fire, and seismic show the official government zone with its source and date, never a vendor’s score presented as a fact. Read the full statement.
Listing material
Eave reads what you give it: an address, a listing link you paste, the PDF your agent emailed, a photo. There is no MLS feed and no scraping. The facts about the ground and the county come from public sources, independent of any listing service.