Whether you are selling Livonia real estate or any Metro Detroit real estate here are tips how to keep your house safer when selling it.  What I mean by safer is keeping your valuables safer.

When you sell your house you need to put your valuables out of reach of potential criminals.  I'm not saying potential lookers or potential home buyers are going to steal from you.  But why give anybody temptation.

So here are my tips:

• Put your jewelry in a safe, lockbox, or at a trusted friends house.
• Guns, especially pistols should be hidden, or locked up
• Cash, change jars, wallets, payrolls should not be left lying around
• Documents that have account numbers, social security numbers should not be left out on counters, or in top pull out drawers. 
• Anything valuable that is easily pocketed or put in a purse should not be left around.

Potential buyers open drawers, and open closet doors.  We as real estate agents can't watch every movement of buyers when we go through houses.  Anybody that is a thief and is looking to steal has it already figured out how they are going to do it.  They know where to look.  They know where you will keep your valuables.

So be smarter than them store your valuables somewhere other than your home when selling your house.  The reason I am writing this is because I was in a Livonia home today where in the kids room there was a hundred dollar bill laying around.  At some point that hundred dollar bill is going to be missing.  So be sure to get your kids piggy banks too.

I hope these Livonia real estate and Metro Detroit real estate sales tips help you.