• Keep important documents and expensive jewelry with you, or send through registered mail. • Use traveler’s checks and/or cash while moving. • Contact a family member or friend with your moving schedule and planned route. • Leave any extra house keys with the buyer, real estate agent, or a trusted neighbor. • Notify buyer of key’s placement immediately. • Make sure that pilot lights are lit on the hot water heater, furnace, stove, and incinerator. • Make sure all utilities function properly. • Check appliances for proper functioning. • Retrieve any held mail from your new postal worker. • Fill out a voter’s registration card. • Change the address on your driver’s license, or get a new one. • Your vehicles also need to be registered. Would you like a professional’s help with all the items on this list? If you said “yes,” I can handle all the real estate transaction items I described in this chapter and the entire book. Here is what will happen after you contact us. We will come out, look at your home, and show you how we can do all of this for you. Best of all, it won’t cost you anything. In fact, many sellers actually make money hiring a real estate agent AT YOUR NEW HOME
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