Don't Forget To Do This When Selling Your House

Listing Agents are notorious for reminding their selling clients to "Prepare their house for sale" and rightfully so. We talk about curb appeal, paint color, staging, having snow removed for easy access, decluttering and much, much more. Interesting enough we often forget this one more area. What is it?

Make sure you have had a locksmith tune up your lock on the front door for easy access and trouble free locking up when a home tour is completed. Why is this important? Yesterday, I had a client with me and we had difficulty getting the door unlocked. Finally, after about 5 minutes of trying we had success. I showed the house and then you are probably ahead of me with this one. We couldn't get the door locked. We tried for at least 15 minutes, calling the owner, the listing Realtor and could reach NO ONE! My buying client was becoming frustrated because we still had 5 more listings to see.

Finally, we had success and it locked. The owner admited later on the phone, the lock had been giving them trouble!

Here is my rule of thumb to follow: As a seller, you always want to make showing your home as easy as possible, including the unlocking and finally locking of the door to the entrance of your home.