Safety First! Keeping Your House Safe

December 9, 2008 

Home safety precautions are always important, but it is especially important to make your home "accident-proof" while it is on the market. Many potential buyers will be coming through your home who won't be aware of the minor hazards that you and your family instinctively avoid.

Go through your home with an eye for potential hazards.  If you are having a hard time spotting any ask an outsider (i.e. a friend, your realtor or a neighbor) if they can walk through your house and look specifically for any potential hazards.  Remove any obstacles that you can.  By removing "obstacles" you will also be making your house appear neater and more accessible.   If there are potentially hazardous obstacles that you can't remove consider posting "watch your head" or "watch your step" signs.  For example, step down into a bedroom where they are usually not found may need a "watch your step" sign. 

Look for loose banisters, uneven steps, precariously placed plants, art objects or anything else that could fall on someone, wet spots on bath or kitchen floors, icy steps outside, toys that someone might fall over and anything that you have to step over or duck under. Make sure that rugs will not slip, especially those at the bottom of stairs.

There aren't many things that will more quickly dampen a buyer's enthusiasm for a house than a bump on the head or an unexpected trip down a flight of stairs. 

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