Real Estate Closing - Preparing for the New Owners
The house closing process when selling a home for sale by owner, will be covered on the next few pages. We will look at that time between all those clauses being satisfied and the big moving day. In other words, the house closing preparation.
You've followed and completed all the for sale by owner tips to this point. All the conditions of the sale have been met. You are just waiting now to bring everything to the final conclusion.
If you haven't done so yet, go ahead, put that big SOLD sign on your yard sign. Go ahead, I'll wait here.
There is still work to be done which we will cover on the next pages of the house closing process.
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What is Left to Complete Your House Closing Checklist?
Here is a few selling your house closing process tips on some work still to be done:
No Need to Panic
Although the list above may seem quite intimidating, it really isn't that big of a deal. Sure, moving can be a pain, but it can also be exciting as you turn another page in your life.
Most of the other stuff usually goes along quite smoothly and most of the actual work is done by others.
So lets break down this house closing process into bite size pieces, OK?
Preparing the House for Closing Day
Here are some house closing process tips concerning possible tasks to perform, in order to prepare your home for the new owner that bought your house.
Depending on where you live and the time of year, make sure:
You of course want to arrange hook-ups and disconnects. For more information on that subject, go to Home Moving Checklist
Can't Think of Everything!
Your own personal situation may involve more items than listed above. Some of the house closing process tips on the list may not pertain to you at all.
If you have tenants renting your house, or perhaps part of the house, make sure that they have been either been given proper notice to vacant, or the lease is in place for the new landlord.
Speaking of tenants, a nice gesture is to personally introduce the tenants to the new landlord.
Here are some more tips when Selling with Tenants
That is about all I can think of at this time on this house closing process for seller page. I'll add any other items if and when they occur to me. Of course I'll never cover every possible contingency!
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