seller of a home should leave for the buyer (in the form of a written list)? Or just helpful suggestions? I'm going crazy trying to remember what it was, and I'm not even 100% sure if I saw it on here, or MM... but someone had a list of useful things to tell the person buying your home. Is this ringing any bells? If someone can, please point me in that general direction?? I might be crazy and there may be no list at all. I swear I can't concentrate on anything these days, ugh.
Trying to get documents and info together for our buyers since we are closing on the 25th. I planned to refer to this 'list' on here but now I can't remember. It was within the past 3 days that I saw it.... if that helps any...
Post by mrs.jacinthe on Jun 14, 2012 9:05:51 GMT -5
Uh, I think it might have been on TN real estate. I think. Your question is ringing a bell for me, anyhow.
We left: All manuals for appliances being left behind, invoices for any repair work done that would still be under warranty (like roofing, etc), contact information for our preferred repair people, a phone book (yes, it's lame, but sometimes it can come in handy, even if all you need is a doorstop), and to-go menus for our favorite local places.
I dont remember a list, but I left a box on the counter with: -manuals for all of the appliances and utilities in the house (furnace, ac, fridge, stove, microwave, etc). -Some township newsletters that I saved -packet of the homeowners association bylaws -phonebook and menus for nearby restaurants
We also left a can of shutter and front door paint, extra floor tiles, extra furnace filters, all of the window shades, a curtain rod in the dining room, a caddy for the master shower (it hangs over the glass doors and our new house doesn't have doors like that), extra track heads and bulbs for the track lighting in the basement
Our sellers left us the dining room curtains, a manual from when the house was built, manuals for the dishwasher and stove, all of the blinds, wall hooks in all of the bathrooms and the kitchen, extra paint. The covered patio was wired for sound and they even left the receiver to work that! (we switched it out w/a better one that we had but I thought that was nice).
I would have appreciated if the sellers of our house has told us where the light switches went. It's an old house, and lots of rooms have plates with 2+ switches on them but only one goes to the lights in the room. Would have been helpful to know that the others went to exterior lights (none were near the exterior doors to actually make sense...). One went to an outlet, not the overhead light in the room. Another has no wires at all. Took us months to figure them all out.