tell me about "the final walk through"

[dixeedeluxe]

Ours is tomorrow.  H took off work today to clean the house.  I'm sure it won't be up to my standars of move-out clean.  Should I anticipate this being a problem at walk through?

[The Foozzler]

From a buyer POV, I didn't mind the house being unclean. The first thing I did after closing was bring in my own cleaning supplies and scrub everything myself. Just make sure the house is empty and there is no trash around.

[nannerl]

Our final walk throughs were always more about looking for last minute issues with the house and grounds itself before the final paperwork was signed, not really about the cleanliness of the place (like, for instance, a giant gaping hole in the wall that was cleverly hidden by a big bookcase or a water damaged part of the floor where the fridge used to be). I'm sure as long as there is no major grossness hanging around, you guys will be fine.

[sunshineluv]

We were looking to make sure the things they had said they would fix, they fixed. I would have loved it to be super clean, but it wasn't and that wasn't a deal breaker to us. But, yes make sure everything is moved out.

Good luck :-)

[Faevantastic]

Take pictures of EVERYTHING.

[Regina Philange]

It went good. We just walked through to make sure, they fixed everything they said they would. Also check to make sure they took all of their stuff.

They should somewhat clean it for you, that's just good common courtesy. Obviously you clean on top of their clean though.

[dixeedeluxe]

There is a part of the carpet in our playroom that's totally ripped up and filled in with cardboard to make it level. We'd told our landlord to tell their realtor FOUR TIMES. It wasnt' mentioned at all as far as something to fix, but we did give them $3,500 for repairs, which may have included the carpet.

We're really nervous that now that we've taken up the area rug in there, this will be the first time they are seeing/hearing about the carpet. If that's the case, we are going to be REALLY angry because we really did everything short of calling them ourselves to tell them it was there.

[dixeedeluxe]

H mowed the lawn there last night. And wanted to powerwash the patio. He's so weird.

[dixeedeluxe]

burp

[Regina Philange]

Jul 29, 2013 8:48:20 GMT -5 dixeedeluxe said:

There is a part of the carpet in our playroom that's totally ripped up and filled in with cardboard to make it level. We'd told our landlord to tell their realtor FOUR TIMES. It wasnt' mentioned at all as far as something to fix, but we did give them $3,500 for repairs, which may have included the carpet.

We're really nervous that now that we've taken up the area rug in there, this will be the first time they are seeing/hearing about the carpet. If that's the case, we are going to be REALLY angry because we really did everything short of calling them ourselves to tell them it was there.

No worries!! You did everything you were supposed to!

[dixeedeluxe]

Oh, we didn't tell our landlord...we told our realtor. LOL

[christidee]

We bought a bank owned property that was sold as is, so even if we saw anything it wouldn't really matter. 

The next time around though I would really like to hire a cleaning company and a carpet steaming company to really clean the place before move in. 

[vthokie]

Jul 29, 2013 8:48:20 GMT -5 dixeedeluxe said:

There is a part of the carpet in our playroom that's totally ripped up and filled in with cardboard to make it level. We'd told our landlord to tell their realtor FOUR TIMES. It wasnt' mentioned at all as far as something to fix, but we did give them $3,500 for repairs, which may have included the carpet.

We're really nervous that now that we've taken up the area rug in there, this will be the first time they are seeing/hearing about the carpet. If that's the case, we are going to be REALLY angry because we really did everything short of calling them ourselves to tell them it was there.

Sounds like you did your part. When we did our final walkthrough in this place, they didn't have all of their boxes out yet. Turns out that was because there's a HUGE spot on the living room floor. Their realtor told them to put boxes on it so we wouldn't see it. OUR realtor should have had us move stuff to check, but we didn't and got screwed. At least you gave them repair $ too. You should be fine. I super cleaned my house before we moved in anyways.

[AndyCohen]

Jul 29, 2013 9:37:02 GMT -5 dixeedeluxe said:

Oh, we didn't tell our landlord...we told our realtor. LOL

Hah I was so confused. I was like "why did I think she owned??"

[jfh]

When we went to our walk-through their was a GIANT mound of trash (not in bags) on the front sidewalk, and a pile of cat poop in the basement. It was nasty. But by the time you're heading to settlement, you're looking for big things that are not easily handled. It sounds like you guys will be fine.

[dixeedeluxe]

Jul 29, 2013 10:10:10 GMT -5 jfh said:

When we went to our walk-through their was a GIANT mound of trash (not in bags) on the front sidewalk, and a pile of cat poop in the basement. It was nasty. But by the time you're heading to settlement, you're looking for big things that are not easily handled. It sounds like you guys will be fine.

LOL, well our buyers will be pleasently surprised!  We aren't even leaving trash in the outside trashcans.  H did a dump run this morning!

[kdrake8]

Hey - ours is tomorrow too!!

Best of luck

[dojo]

Jul 29, 2013 9:40:45 GMT -5 christidee said:

We bought a bank owned property that was sold as is, so even if we saw anything it wouldn't really matter. 

The next time around though I would really like to hire a cleaning company and a carpet steaming company to really clean the place before move in. 

100% agree. Carpet cleaner is coming to my house on Friday. We didn't know what we were going to do with the main floor when we first bought the house otherwise I would have had them cleaned before I moved in.