Seller's Guide - Closing the Deal

Final Walk-Through Inspection: A few days before the buyer closes on your property, they will visit it one last time. This final inspection is to ensure that the property’s condition meets the buyer’s expectations compared to its condition when they made their offer. During this final inspection you will have the opportunity to “sign-off” on the property's condition to document that you have transferred the property in satisfactory condition.

Canceling Home Services and Utilities: Our office will be happy to provide you with a list of phone numbers to call local utilities and service companies so that they can terminate your service on the date your transaction will close. For the buyer’s convenience, we will suggest they initiate service as of that same date. This information is also available in our "Resource Center".

If Things Get Complicated: Sometimes things don’t go according to plan. This is when you really need an experienced real estate broker. Maybe something in the house broke at the last moment, or the buyer’s loan won’t close on schedule; there are a lot of variables. Once again, our brokers are experienced and ready to offer various strategies and options to help make your transaction as smooth as possible for you.

Close of Escrow: At the closing, the title company will have you sign the final documents. One of these documents provided will be a final closing statement. This is an outline of the selling price, your loan payoff, prorated taxes, commissions and any closing fees that you must pay. Your broker will be ready to explain these documents to you. When everything is complete, the title company will record the transaction for you and the buyer at the County Recorder’s Office, you will receive your proceeds from the transaction, and the buyer will become the official new owner.

Keys: We will coordinate the delivery of your keys to the buyer once the deed has been recorded at the County Assessor’s Office or according to any other contractual agreements you’ve made.

Feedback: It would please us to hear how well we served you through any transaction. We provide many forums for your comments on our performance. You could even be on this website declaring your satisfaction of our programs and practices to the world!

Congratulations on your sale!