1. Assuming certain items can be removed from the home.
When selling your home, the contract states what can and can not be removed from your home. If you have any doubts about whether it stays or goes, ask your agent. This causes a lot of problems when buyers are told certain things will remain but then show up to their new home and find them missing.
2. Leaving your refrigerator icemaker on and/or leaving ice in the ice maker bucket.
Sellers sometimes forget or their agents forget to advise them some sellers turn off their electricity before the new buyer turns it on. This can cause ice to melt and leave a mess of a puddle on the floor.
3. Not changing your address with all needed businesses, services or agencies.
After many years of compiling this, I put together a list of everywhere you should change your address with when you move. I give this to all my sellers so they don't miss anywhere important.
4. Forgetting to tell the people who service your home that your moving.
From gardeners, pool maintenance people and pest services. Remember to let them know you're going, especially if you have a contract with them like the pest control company.
5. Forgetting to take items from your garden or yard.
You'll have to ask your agent what stays and goes before you market your home but assuming you've already done this and it's okay that you can take them, sellers forget about potted plants, bird feeders and things like wind chimes quite often.
6. Leaving paint cans behind
Just out of courtesy to the new owner, it is nice to leave old paint cans that are labeled with where they were used for the new owner. Even if there is no or old paint in them. You'll like have a lot of holes that need to be covered and painted from things you've hung around your house and not all new home owners want to repaint entire rooms. They would prefer to just patch up the holes and paint them.
Photo by Vinicius "amnx" Amano
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