While an open house is a great way to meet the perfect buyer for your property, it’s also a great opportunity for people with bad motives to make their rude moves. Rather than allowing your home to accommodate good buyers, you could also accommodate bad people. So how exactly are you going to do the open house while protecting your home? Here are some tips.
Keep important documents that contain relevant information, such as social security numbers and bank accounts, away. These digits of numbers can be the key to commit crimes using your identity.
Remove jewelry, antiques, and other high-value items. These are eye candy and can easily attract thieves and robbers. Electronic accessories such as tablets, laptops and smartphones must also be protected. Your personal and somewhat confidential information can be leaked once these devices are taken from you.
It is recommended to hide photos of family members. You don’t know how criminal minds think. Members of your family, even with just their photos, can be easy targets for crime, especially children.
Never leave your house, car or room keys, even if they are just duplicates. These things are small and can be easily grasped. When in possession of bad people, these keys can be used to enter your property.
Never hide anything of value in your rooms and other likely places. Rooms inside your home, especially those that are locked during open house, can imply that there are valuable things there. Although they are locked, it is recommended never to leave items of high value in these rooms. Some curious and mischievous people might go unnoticed sneaking into those rooms to spy on those things and plan something bad afterward.
Have a log book of guests joining the open house. This is a useful record to see who came to visit the house. Make sure arrival and departure times are also recorded.
Take photos or videos of the rooms and other parts of the house before the open house in its scenic state. After the open house, review the photos or videos to see if there are any alterations in how things are arranged and arranged.
Remember that an open house should be an opportunity to meet buyers, or even meet new connections and friends. It should not be an opportunity or an invitation to people with bad intentions. However, we will not meet bad people until they have acted badly. So it’s better to be safe and secure than sorry later!