[Guide] 10 Ways to Close Sale Smoothly

The steps you take to selling your house are the same as anyone else. This checklist will help keep things in perspective and help you organize your time so that when you move out, your stuff move with you. It also allows the buyer to move in without having to deal with the mess you left behind.

These are ten easy things to check off your little list if you want to close the sale of your house and move on smoothly;

1. Retain all contracts, disclosures and agreements pertaining to and about the sale: Keep these documents in a safe place, you might need them. If there is an unpaid bill or if the buyer for some reason decides to sue you, having all these documents on hand will help mitigate or relieve you of these issues.

2. Clean the house:
It is only good manners to leave the house clean for the new owners. Mop, sweep, scrub and dust everything off. Leave it in a good condition. No excuses.

3. Shut off valves/taps: If you have disconnected your washers, turn off the valves or risk flooding the home. Turn off gas stoves and water taps too.

4. Final walk-through:
It is also good manners when it comes the day to leave, that you do a final walk-through the empty house with your buyers and inform them of the little quirks that only you would know. Does a particular door stick? Which light switch operates which room? Such things are trivial but an important part nonetheless of handing over.

5. Cancel/transfer your insurance:
If you’ve bought insurance for your house, wait until the deed has transferred and you are legally no longer bound to the house before cancelling it. But remember to do this.

6. Cancel utilities: Make sure you get the power turned off before you leave. It will be the buyers’ responsibility to pay to have the power and water turned on, not yours.

7. Cancel subscriptions: 
Newspaper, magazine, cable subscriptions and any other things that you pay to have delivered frequently to your doorstep should be cancelled or transferred to your new home. 

8. Check cabinets/drawers/cupboards:
Check everything thoroughly so you don’t accidently leave something important behind. Check the top of cupboards and dressers. Look at the back and feel for anything that might have slipped in and gotten lodged out of sight.

9. Collect all keys:
The buyer will likely change the lock but all keys that belong to the house, such as drawer keys, garage keys etc, should be collected and placed in the kitchen drawer or in an obvious location so the buyers won’t miss them.

10. Close windows/lock the door:
When you’re ready to leave, close all the windows, shut the drapes, close doors and lock the main gate and door.
(Source From propertyuguru.com.my)
 
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