When you are selling your home the final walk through is a very important day.  To make the home sale as smooth as possible its best if you can manage to handle your final walk through day as if it were your closing day, by having all of your possessions moved out of the property, and have your home cleaned by now too. This final walk though will be scheduled typically 1-4 day before closing.  Many times the buyers will just come over, do a quick walk through to make sure you didn’t remove anything you weren’t supposed to, and make sure you didn’t break any holes in the walls when you were carrying out the furniture.

When all of your personal items have been removed from the house there is no place to hide any of your secrets anymore. This is a compelling reason to not have hidden any secrets in the first place. If the buyers all the sudden find out there was a broken window hidden behind that cabinet, or that there is a leaky faucet that was hidden by all of the stuff you had under the sink, todays the day they will find it.  A thorough Realtor will encourage their buyers to check all the appliances, look under the sinks for leaks,  open and close all the doors, make sure the heating and A/C are working,  make sure there aren’t any new problems they didn’t know about, etc.

On a more positive note, the final walk through can be an excellent opportunity for you to meet the buyers, tell them about the nuances of the house, inform them of some of the neighborhood gossip,  pass on information about how the systems work, and give them your new mailing address in case they receive mail for you.

Whether you are investor completing a quick flip, or a family who has lived in the home for many great years,  take some time to say goodbye to the house, remember all the good times, and move on to your next property.   If you are to the final walk through it’s a good day, your Realtor has sold your house.  Your Realtor may take this opportunity to ask you for a referral so they can keep helping families in your community make their next move too.