You have decided to sell your property and there are a few things you should already prepare ahead of the time before calling a Real Estate Professional and prior to signing a listing agreement.
Even when your listing agent does not ask for the documents, have them ready and just hand them to the agent at the time you sign the contract. Sooner or later you will get the midnight call from the agent asking for the documents because they forgot to ask you for them at the time of the listing signing and you did not have them ready to go.
Some of the documents a buyer’s agent might ask for before or after a showing are and many times before making an offer:
- Homeowners association documents and costs
- All executed lease agreements (when property is a rental). Just black out the tenants information like name, Social security number, phone number.
- When the property is an investment property also pull the actual expensed and the numbers for the GOI
- Average utility information for an entire year
- When you have an odd shaped property or a neighbor’s fence that might be close you your home or lot line, have a current survey ready that shows where the true lot lines are.
- Pest inspection documentation
Some of the documentation might not apply to you, just pull the once that do and it will save you from making the add dash to the finish line trying to find them.