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Privacy Matters!

London, Ontario Area


Now more than ever, privacy is a top-of-mind concern for many - protect yours when selling your property by following these tips before opening your door for showings.

Assume buyers will be opening drawers. While they shouldn’t be peaking into dressers or nightstands, for example, the kind of drawers that stay with the home when it sells - those in counters or built-in - are fair game. Buyers will of course be inspecting countertops, cupboards and closets too.

Making sure not to overlook the aforementioned areas, gather paperwork like bank and credit card statements, receipts, bills, mail, checkbooks, pay stubs etc. In addition to risking identity theft, by making such documents easily accessible, you risk revealing information that could be used against you at the negotiating table - should a buyer spy a collection notice, divorce papers or your Comparative Market Analysis, for example, you can bet the insight gleaned will be used as a bargaining tool.

Your electronic devices can reveal a lot of information about you too. Turn off and password protect and/or lock up your desktop computer, laptop, tablets, smartphones, external hard drives, SD Cards and USB drives as applicable.

Examine your walls, fridge and shelves as well. A calendar or sticky note could indicated when you will be away on vacation or out for an appointment; and a framed degree could tell buyers what you do for a living giving them an idea of how much you make - all of which is information buyers don’t need to know about you and some of which is information that could be used as leverage during negotiations.






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