Hi everyone. This is your Tampa Bay Realtor Lance Mohr and in this video I
want to talk about the condition the seller needs to leave your home in at
closing and what happens if they leave a bunch of junk in the home what do you do
how do you handle that that's what I'm going to talk about in the short video
most states will spell out in the purchase contract what kind of condition
the seller needs to leave the home in but I know a lot of them don't spell
this out as well so if you look at most contracts what
they're basically going to say is the seller needs to leave the home in room
swept condition so the question is what is broom swept condition well it's
simply just that in other words they can't leave a bunch of crud in the home
you can't leave stuff in the garage and the attic and bedrooms and closets it
can't leave a bunch of stuff on the carpet and having a real real real
filthy dirty that I'm not saying they have to bring a professional carpet
cleaning company in to clean it or a bunch of needs to clean the home but it
basically just has to be broom swept in other words normal wear and tear and it
has to be in good condition with everything gone so a lot of times people
will expect the seller to have it really clean because maybe if you were so in a
home you would do that and I've done that as well but they don't have to so
just understand that you might want to budget for the for the seller to just
leave it in Bruce what condition I know I have rental properties and I always
budget you know changing the door locks I'm going to carpet company I'm gonna
maid service go in and do it so I would expect that now the question is what
happens if they leave a bunch of junk in the home what do you do well the first
thing is do preventative before it gets to that stage because most buyers will
do the walk through the day of or even 24 hours prior to closing so if you
think the seller might believe stuff in the home say it's a divorce situation
it's a nasty divorce situation or maybe it's a short sale or something like this
and they're selling it because the financial hardship or someone passed
away and you think they might be leaving stuff in the home or in the Attic
just make sure you contact your real estate agent in your agent brings it up
to the seller they bring it up to them up front they bring it up to be with you
know during the process they bring it up to him a couple weeks prior to closing a
week prior to closing a few days prior to closed
you can even add verbage and I've seen this done in the contract that the
seller is to make sure everything is out of the home out of the addict out of the
garage if you have a basement depending on where you live and everything's out
of the home but again they're going to do it but what happens if they don't and
I'm not an attorney but you're gonna pretty much have to take him to court
and I don't think you're gonna want to do that so it's best just to prevent
this I had in my home when I was buying at the time and at the time my wife and
I didn't have kids they left a swing set in the backyard it was a pretty good
swing set I basically clipped that swing set on Craigslist sold it for $500
within the first two hours or I've had situations let's say they have a
barbecue they leave a barbecue behind an old ratty barbecue or they leave a couch
behind just pick up the phone call Salvation Army if the couches upstairs
just up you're movers move it downstairs again I don't like this to happen it's
better to try to handle it before it does happen if you think there's any
reason but I just don't run into this very often but I wanted to let you know
if you have any questions don't hesitate to give me a call if you're in the tampa
bay area i would have loved to work with you if you liked this video give me a
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