Once you've decided to sell your home, there are a number of things which you can do to help get the best possible price in the shortest amount of time. Your Realtor at Kelleher Realty is an expert in marketing homes.

However, selling your home is a joint effort with you playing an important role in the final results. Your major role is to make your home as attractive as possible to potential buyers.

Before You Leave Your Present Address:

1. Reading of gas meter, electric meter, water meter
2. Cancel telephone, utilities, newspaper delivery
3. Have your refrigerator and other appliances serviced for the trip.
4. Call the utility company in the city to which you are moving. Ask them about necessary fees and deposits required for the installation of services.
5. Remit the utility deposits required, with information when and where you will want the following services: cable, water, electric, and telephone.
6. Send your forwarding address to your local post office and send change of address cards to magazines, insurance companies, friends, and department stores.
7. Transfer your insurance on household goods or other insurance on personal possessions, so that they will be covered at your new home and en route.
8. Notify the principal of your children's school about your intended move. Get a letter from him covering the status of your children in school.
9. Notify the Pastor of your church that you are leaving.
10. Obtain birth records and baptism records of all the children.
11. Get medical and dental records, eyeglass perscriptions, etc.
12. Have your present bank arrange credit references for establishing new accounts in the city to which you are moving.
13. Arrange for sufficient cash or travelers checks to cover the cost of moving services and expenses until you make banking connections in the city to which you are moving. Cash or certified checks are generally required by transfer companies.
14. Leave the keys for your old property with the realtor or neighbors.

At Your New Address:

1. Obtain certified checks or cashier's checks necessary for closing the real estate transaction.
2. Check on services of telephone, cable, electricity, and water.
3. Ask the mailman for mail he may be holding for your arrival.
4. Obtain new driver's licenses.
5. Visit city offices and register to vote.
6. Register your car after arrival in state or a penalty may have to be paid when getting new license plates.