Closing

Your home sale is completed on closing day when ownership is officially transferred to the buyer. As closing day approaches, there are a number of tasks to complete:

• Hire a lawyer to represent your interests and manage documentation for closing day – you should do this as soon as you have a firm sale
• Satisfy any conditions you may be subject to in the offer.
• Arrange for your self-move requirements or obtain estimates from reputable moving companies and book as far in advance as possible.
• Contact utilities to have meters read on closing day and coordinate cancellations, transfers, and change-of-address notification for medical, financial and contracted services, licenses, subscriptions, memberships and personal mail.
• Organize the connection of services and utilities at your new home.
• Coordinate with your lawyer the receipt of compensation for prepaid utility expenses and the payment of real estate and legal fees from the proceeds of the sale.
• Meet with your lawyer to sign required closing documentation to discharge any mortgages, transfer the deed, and to provide the keys for the buyer.

• My husband and I were first-time home-buyers who didn’t have a clue how the house-buying process worked. Stef educated us and quickly helped us along through the entire process. When we found “our house,” she went above and beyond to ensure a quick negotiation and closing process and now, three months into living in our ...Read More~E. MacDuff + G. Baker, 2013
• “Thanks for all your help and patience. It would not have went so smoothly if it wasn’t for you. Thanks again”Julie
• “Thank you so much for your time and care, with much gratitude.”Sheena & Darren
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