What Do Buyers Look For In A Final Walk Through?

What Do Buyers Look For In A Final Walk Through?

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Hey, everyone. Just want to take a few minutes today, discuss with you about when you sell your home, what you need to know about the final walkthrough. So you’re past inspection, you’re past appraisal, you’ve finally gotten that clear to close, and now the buyer wants to schedule their final walkthrough. Usually this will be done within 48 hours of the closing, and sometimes it’s right before the closing. But just understand that whenever that walk through is scheduled, the main goal here is if you are moved out or the home is vacant, is that everything that is in the home at the time that the buyer does their final walk through it’s considered that that is what’s going to be in the home.

That’s the condition of the home that it’s in right before they close. Obviously, if you are getting occupancy after the closing, then that does not apply. But the focus of the walk through is for the buyer to see if the home is in the same condition that it was when they wrote their offer. So you kind of want to make sure that it’s showable, it’s clean, nothing’s missing, no holes in the walls, and all of a sudden nothing’s appeared that wasn’t there before. Just make sure that the home is in saleable condition as you would when you had your home on the market.

So if for some reason, at the final walk through, the buyer determines that something that was promised to be left in the home was not there, or it’s not in the condition of the home that it was in, in the agreement, it does state that how many days that the buyer has to get back to you to let you know, okay, “we noticed there was a hole that wasn’t there before. We need that repaired.” And then you have a certain amount of time as well, typically in that purchase agreement, to let them know if you’re going to fix it or not, or get it in the process of being fixed if you’re not going to get it fixed within that time frame. In most cases, your walkthrough will be smoothly if you’ve done what you’re supposed to do according to the purchase agreement.

But there can be incidents where you may get a potential buyer who’s being very nitpicky and trying to come up with a reason for them to get more money, concessions or repairs, whatever the case may be. The goal is for you to just make sure that everything that you want to keep if you no longer occupying the home after the closing is to make sure all that stuff is gone and to make sure the home is in the condition that it was in when the buyer walked through it and wrote their offer. So that’s all I have for you today. If you have any questions, leave a comment below or you can email me at [email protected] all right, thanks. Have a great day. Bye.

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