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Keep your home in the same condition throughout escrow

When selling your home, the purchase contract says that throughout the escrow process, the home has to be "maintained in substantially the same condition as on the date of acceptance.”

That means whatever condition the home was in at the time the buyer’s offer was accepted, good or bad, is how the home should stay throughout escrow and is how the property should be delivered to the buyer.

There is no need to go above and beyond when it comes to cleaning the home before moving out.

Although getting the home professionally cleaned before vacating is a nice gesture to the buyer, simply keeping it in the same condition that it was in when the home went into escrow is good enough

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Which month is better to put a home up for sale: Jan. or Feb.

This home buyer pattern happens every single year.

Buyers stop their home search in December and pick it back up again in January.

To get top dollar for your home, take advantage of this rough data and choose to list your home for sale in January instead of February.

More buyers on the market lead to more competition.

If your home is priced right, that will lead to multiple offers for your property.

It's smarter to sell your home in January vs. February

Every year in December, a lot of my buyers that have been looking for a home take a break from the property search.

They are busy with the holidays and parties and family.

But come January 1st, their new year's resolutions of owning a home kicks in and their search gets ramped up again.

As a home seller, you should understand this pattern and take advantage of it.

You can do that by putting your home on the market in January and getting that initial wave of buyers to come check out your home.

If you wait until February to put your home on the market, you miss the buyer rush and your home could stay on the market longer.

If you are going to list your home, be smart about it, and list your home for sale in January.

That means you need to start to prepare for that today!

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