Sunday, March 10, 2013

Steps to sell a house... *continued (Part 4 & Final)*

Step 33: Get annoyed at Buyers for trying to move up the closing date (yet again) because it's a better time for them, absolutely no thought as to the fact that us as sellers are going to be moving to a whole other state that is 30+ hrs away and have things that we have to accomplish before closing.... GRRRRRRRRRRR... oh and this is all without the lenders approval or the appraisal having been finalized!

Step 34: Find out appraisal has come back at exactly what was needed to make sure the deal goes off without a hitch, settle on a closing date of March 14th.


Step 35: Try to finish prepping fragile items (crystal and collectibles back into original boxes) and pre-packing the trophy deer/fish mounts into hand-made wooden boxes.


Step 36: Set up a staging area of stuff that is NOT to be packed into the household goods by the movers this week.


Step 37: Start calling all of the companies to schedule either mailing address change or shut off of service. This step takes lots of work... ugh!!


Step 38: Clean out work office of all personal items, take them home to be packed up by the movers or find a home for them in personal vehicle.


Step 39: Have movers come in and box up all loose items, but since they got a late start means that they finished late too!

Step 40: Have movers argue with you about getting a semi-rig out to your home in order to load all furniture and boxes, they end up coming with a large U-Haul box truck to load everything, finishing loading about 7pm.

Step 41: Confirm that everything is on schedule with Realtor.

Step 42: Clean all rooms but the rooms that you are still "living" in, so those rooms can be shut off.

Step 43: Weigh vehicles empty on CAT Scales or Certified Scales.

Step 44: Load everything into vehicles.

Step 45: Clean the rest of house.

Step 46: Weigh vehicles full.

Step 47: Sign all paperwork required for finalizing closing on House.

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