Fact files, which include instruction leaflets and service information for the heating system and appliances you're leaving, are a godsend and can save you a lot of "How do I?" phone calls. Compile one for the people who are moving into your home and ask for one to be put together for your new property.
Fact files should also include details of rubbish collection and recycling schemes, doctors, tradesmen and other useful services. Better still, detail paint brands an colours used on the walls, as well as useful informationsuch as where the stopcock is located.
"Speak to the tenant or owner of your new home too if you can," adds Rob Hill. "They have lived there, so will know all the pros and cons of the house from rubbish and recycling collection to the technique to unlocking that sticky side gate."
If the new property has a burglar alarm, get the code. "We had a buyer move into a house where the vendor had set their alarm as they always did. None of us could turn it off and the vendor had moved to Australia," recalls Graham Lock, co-founder of www.housenetwork.co.uk.
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