Your A-to-Z checklist

Before you start

• Path chosen: free listing, package or broker
• Goals, floor price and timeline set, with all the owners
• Balance, penalty and discharge fees confirmed in writing by the lender
• Buy-sell plan chosen: synchronize, bridge financing or conditional offer
• Estimate obtained and, if needed, a broker's or chartered appraiser's opinion

Prepare the property and the file

• Decluttering, deep cleaning and depersonalizing done
• Small repairs and neutral painting done
• Certificate of location checked, up to date or ordered
• Seller's declaration filled out honestly, invoices attached
• Taxes, utility bills, contracts and warranties gathered
• Home insurance, documents on the well or septic tank, leases and service contracts, if applicable
• Pre-listing inspection done (optional)
• Condo documents requested from the syndicate, if applicable

Go to market

• Photo shoot done
• Asking price set based on the appraisal report
• Listing published and, with the package, advertising launched
• Link shared, sign and open house planned (optional)

Visits and offers

• Flexible visiting hours, property clean for every visit
• Offers read in full and reviewed with an advisor
• Answer given in writing: acceptance or counter-offer
• Promise conditional on the sale of the buyer's property: notice sent, with proof, before accepting another offer

Conditions and signing

• Conditions followed and removed in writing
• Home insurance maintained until the transfer
• Occupancy after the signing provided for in the promise, if applicable
• Notary confirmed and documents sent
• Pre-closing visit done
• Deed signed; keys, remotes and manuals handed over

After the sale

• Sale reported for tax purposes, federally and to Revenu Québec
• Address changes and service transfers done
• Insurer notified; sale documents kept