If you wish to sell your home, you may already be planning to hire a real estate agent to help you determine the asking price and value of the property. Before you leap into showing your home, however, think about contacting some other, less obvious professionals who could play a critical role in the final success of your sale. Here are four such experts you should be talking to.
1. Home Inspectors
- If you're moving to a new location without the help of professional movers, extra care and planning may be needed. You may have already gathered some of the essentials, such as moving boxes, bubble wrap and packaging tape. However, there are other equally useful moving supplies you may have overlooked. Everything from furniture blankets to hand trucks may be purchased or rented to make the move easier and protect your belongings.
- You're going to move most of your stuff to a storage facility while you go off on a new adventure. You're hoping to find a storage company that goes above and beyond the norm when it comes to various features. For instance, you want a climate-controlled unit and a facility that has excellent surveillance cameras. You may be surprised and pleased to discover the broad range of additional extra amenities that certain storage companies offer.
- Nothing is worse than unpacking your storage unit and finding many of your things crushed, disorganized, or picked through by pests. Although you might be tempted to blame the moving company who packed your unit or the storage facility for not providing pest control, the fact of the matter is that you might be at fault for your own storage problems. Here are three ways that you might be unintentionally damaging your stored goods, and what could have done to avoid problems in the first place.
- From termites and bed bugs to fruit flies and the occasional mouse, in most cases, pests are merely an annoyance and at their worst, can cause damage to your home and belongings. However, there are other instances when you encounter a pest that could be potentially dangerous, but you're not sure if you should worry. Don't put your health and safety at risk and instead, here are a few ways to tell if these common pests are innocuous or dangerous: