company.
Moving Day
• Keep important documents and expensive jewelry with you. • Contact a family member or friend with your moving schedule and planned route. • Leave any extra house keys with the buyer, real estate agent, or a trusted neighbor. • Notify buyer of any extra key’s placement immediately.
At Your New Home
• Make sure that pilot lights are lit on the hot water heater, furnace, stove, and incinerator. • Make sure all utilities function properly. • Check appliances for proper functioning. • Retrieve any held mail from your new postal worker. • Fill out a voter’s registration card. • Change the address on your driver’s license, or get a new one. • Register your vehicles. Would you like a professional’s help with all the items on this list? If you said “yes,” we can handle all the real estate transaction items we described in this chapter and the entire book. Here is what will happen after you contact us. We will come out, look at your home, and show you how we can do all of this for you. Many sellers actually make money hiring a real estate agent to sell thei r home. Is that true of every listing, every time? No, but that is the case more often than not. A skilled agent will likely
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