10 Things To Do When You are Selling your Fort Lauderdale Home and You Are Going on Vacation.

Your Fort Lauderdale home  is on the market and ready for sale.  You did a great job staging and preparing the house for all those buyers.

You  are ready for a vacation and don’t want to delay it just because you are selling your Fort Lauderdale home.

Keep these 10 “Do’s ”  in mind while you are going on vacation

1) Keep your Fort Lauderdale  home on the market and let the showings continue as usual.  Don’t  consider “No showings until we return”.   We are professionals who show your home for you and you do not want to ever miss a showing since you don’t know who your buyer is.

2) Make arrangements so that your agent will be able to contact you and get paperwork to you if there is an offer.  With todays electronic means of communication there are multiple ways you can communicate with your agent.

3) Keep your air conditioning on a comfortable temperature.   The first thing a buyer will assume is that the A/C is not working in your Fort Lauderdale home.

4)  Have your mail held at the post office while you’re gone.  Suspend delivery on your newspaper or ask a neighbor to collect it for you.

5) Make arrangements for any packages you have being delivered to be picked up by a neighbor from your Fort Lauderdale home while you’re gone.  Packages setting on the front steps for days are a signal you’re not home.

6)  Keep it a secret on your social media sites.  No Facebook, Tweeting,  Blogging or ANYTHING. Criminals have access to social media too. Wait until you return to your Fort Lauderdale Home to broadcast your vacation to the world.

7)Make arrangements for the flowers & lawn to be watered and your lawn mowed.  If a property is not visually appealing form the curb buyers won’t get out of the car.  The city of Fort Lauderdale will give you a code enforcement violation if your grass is neglected.

8)Tell your agent you’re leaving town well in advance of your departure from your Fort Lauderdale home.

9) Take out ALL of  the trash before you leave.  You do not want the first impression of the buyers to be “what stinks?” because you forgot about the leftover fish you tossed before leaving.

10) Leave the hurricane shutters open on your Fort Lauderdale home. Be sure to make arrangement with a contractor or a neighbor to attend to this in the event of a major storm.

Have a question about this post or would you like to make Fort Lauderdale your vacation spot? Call or write to me and let me know you plans.

Tortola, BVI - One of my favorite vacation spots

Tortola, BVI - One of my favorite vacation spots

Tortola, BVI - One of my favorite vacation spots