Selling a Luxury Home - Part 11 - Make Your Showings Safe!
This is Part 11 in a Series. You may wish to look at the other parts first:
Selling a Luxury Home - Part 1 - Defined
Selling a Luxury Home - Part 2 - A State of Mind
Selling a Luxury Home - Part 3 - Make a Plan
Selling a Luxury Home - Part 4 - The Team - Home Inspector
Selling a Luxury Home - Part 5 - The Team - The Termite Inspector
Selling a Luxury Home - Part 6 - The Team - The Stager
Selling a Luxury Home - Part 7 - The Team - Putting it together
Selling a Luxury Home - Part 8 - Living Through the Sale
Selling a Luxury Home - Part 9 - Picture This!
Selling a Luxury Home - Part 10 - Selling When Empty!
Now that we have talked to the experts, had the home staged and any repairs completed that need to be completed it is time to get the home ready to show. I am not too worried about the visible at this time as the invisible or at least the not so obvious. The security of your home.
There will be people coming in and out of your home. When they will come in and out and some ways to consider controlling this we will look at in the next post. But here are some thoughts.
- Put your valuables in a safe place. A safe, a safe deposit box, another location, but not just hidden in your dresser draw. Most people are honest, but there are people who will rob your home at an open house or even a showing with the agent. They work in teams, some distract others do the dirty work. Do not blame the agent, most of these people come across as decent and honest buyers.
- Consider any paper work with personal information as valuable property. Identity theft is a growing crime. Bank account records, tax records, even your birth date would provide a valuable tool for people to victimize you.
- Leave your security systems on. Give the agents the access information as needed. Some systems will allow multiple passwords to even allow you to know who turned the system on and off.
- Even if someone does not rob you during a showing or open house they could use those opprotunities to case the home for a burglary.
- You are selling your home based on Status, Uniqueness, and Luxury and so you will have to have some nice looking things about. This does not mean they have to be very expensive, they just have to look nice. If you have a valuable vase or item that you might not want to be exposed put it away. Some things could get damaged by honest people just bumping into them or kids of buyers running around the house.
- If you are have concerns consider putting in and using Nanny Cams.
As an aside if you have any nice fixtures or things you do not want to go with the house. Remove them before you put the home on the market.
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