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Departing Home Seller: “How Clean Does it Have to Be?”

“Substantially the Same Condition” & The Golden Rule ‘I know it when I see it.’ –Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, on the legal definition of what constitutes pornography. “Buyer has the right to a walk-through review of the property prior to closing to establish that the property is in substantially the same condition as of the...
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“No More Monkees Jumping on the Bed”: Rules of Etiquette for Sunday Open Houses

(Top) Ten Commandments (“#6. No Free Samples”) You wouldn’t think Realtors hosting Sunday open houses would have to instruct parents to tell their kids not to jump on the beds in the owner’s home. Unfortunately . . . you’d be wrong. While the vast majority of open house visitors are respectful of the “For Sale”...
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