Top Five Security Tips for FSBOs.

If you are selling or thinking of selling your home yourself - you are familiar with FSBO abbreviation. It stands for For Sale By Owner.

Follow these security tips while having your home for sale by owner:

1. Never set an appointment unless you have full name and phone number of person who asked for it. Call back to verify the number.

2. Don't tell potential buyers about your schedule.

3. Never trust unknown person to go into your home without you (by giving them location of hidden key, security system info, etc.)

4. Keep a log of everyone who looked at your home.

5. Never leave prescription drugs, valuables, guns or items of value in sight or in places where the buyers can find them.


Please remember that most of people who want to look at your home will be honest potential buyers but it is always better to be safe than sorry.


p.s. One of the greatest and ofen "unnoticed" benefit of listing your home with the REALTOR who belongs to local association and showing system is the SAFETY and SECURITY of scheduling showings.