Step
10- Post-Close Activity
Congratulations
on the successful sale of your home!
Hopefully, everything went smoothly
and you will be vacating your house in the time frame that
you had anticipated. Your real estate agent will help you
create a checklist of all the things you will need to do to
turn the property over to the new owners. You will need to
make sure that all of the local services (i.e. electricity,
gas, lawn care, cable, etc.) have been canceled or, if the
new owner is going to retain some of the services, the name
for the account should be changed. The property and anything
assigned to the buyer according to the contract should be
prepared appropriately for the new owners. This will make
the transition as smooth and effortless as possible.
