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.
