davsco
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yeah just pack it up in boxes. leave taped/sealed boxes there or take off property.
Sometimes prospective buyers are not. They are casing a home or looking to steal personal items left there during the showing.
Sometimes prospective buyers are not. They are casing a home or looking to steal personal items left there during the showing.
We loaded up a storage unit with card board boxes and I did 10 trips to the dump in my SUV before we put it up for sale (This took about 8 days, I took off work for 2 of them If I was not at work, I was throwing things away or putting it into storage).
When they took photos, I showed the kids and they were like "who's house is that?"
My storage room was like a submarine. They could see what they needed to see w/o having to go in there very far. I blocked off half of the room so no one could get to the safes or reloading stuff.
I also had 2 cameras hidden in there.
Handguns were at my Dad's Condo. A few long guns were moved off premises.
Luckily, it was only for sale for 1 day with a total of 10 groups of people seeing it on an open house.
If I did not price it to move (we already had a contract on a place) and thought it would take longer to sell, I would have had to give up reloading for a period of time and maybe just kept a few things there.
I'll be in this situation I think in about 4-6 years from now and every time I walk into the gun room I'm thinking all the work I'll have to do when we move again and likely into a smaller place.
As a realtor, I can tell you without a doubt that, sign or no sign, it is illegal for a seller to record audio of private conversations without the consent of all parties concerned. If your video equipment is capable of recording audio, even if you contend that the audio recording function is off, you're asking for trouble.
If you are moving you are going to pack up that gear eventually or sell it off. Why not just box it up now?
So, if we sell our house, we have to turn of our security system??
State statute please?
So, if we sell our house, we have to turn of our security system??
State statute please?
Read Paragraph 10 of the marylandistan standard Exclusive Right to Sell Residential Brokerage Agreement. It has all the information you need including a link to the md.gov website jam packed with all the lawyering you want to read on the subject.
When I'm walking through a house with a prospective buyer, we're discussing a myriad of things including financing, purchasing strategy, contingencies, and plenty of other sensitive information. If I see even a hint of active surveillance equipment, I'm on the phone with the seller's agent and advising my clients to seek counsel. It's my ethical duty as a realtor and my fiduciary duty to my client. The buyer's privacy outweighs the seller's paranoia.
Read Paragraph 10 of the marylandistan standard Exclusive Right to Sell Residential Brokerage Agreement. It has all the information you need including a link to the md.gov website jam packed with all the lawyering you want to read on the subject.
When I'm walking through a house with a prospective buyer, we're discussing a myriad of things including financing, purchasing strategy, contingencies, and plenty of other sensitive information. If I see even a hint of active surveillance equipment, I'm on the phone with the seller's agent and advising my clients to seek counsel. It's my ethical duty as a realtor and my fiduciary duty to my client. The buyer's privacy outweighs the seller's paranoia.
In that case, anyone touring my house would be required to sign a waiver. I'm not turning off anything.
The buyer has zero expectation of privacy in my house, and their privacy doesn't outweigh jack when they're in it.
Bathrooms excepted, so you can all crowd in there if you're that paranoid.
The law says different my friend.
The law says different my friend.
Read Paragraph 10 of the marylandistan standard Exclusive Right to Sell Residential Brokerage Agreement. It has all the information you need including a link to the md.gov website jam packed with all the lawyering you want to read on the subject.
When I'm walking through a house with a prospective buyer, we're discussing a myriad of things including financing, purchasing strategy, contingencies, and plenty of other sensitive information. If I see even a hint of active surveillance equipment, I'm on the phone with the seller's agent and advising my clients to seek counsel. It's my ethical duty as a realtor and my fiduciary duty to my client. The buyer's privacy outweighs the seller's paranoia.
That's why they'll be signing a waiver, or walking on down the road.
I was referring to video recording, even though I answered your comment about audio.
And the link in the form leads to this:
§ 10-402. Recorded options as notice
A recorded instrument, recorded modification, or any amendment of a recorded instrument or recorded modification creating an option to purchase property, or any memorandum of option recorded under § 3-101(f) of this article ceases to be actual or constructive notice to any person or to put any person on inquiry as to existence or exercise of the option, if:
(1) The instrument according to its terms has expired;
(2) One year has elapsed since the time of expiration; and
(3) No grant or other instrument has been recorded showing that the option has been exercised.
I think someone needs to recheck the electronic form and links they use.
i don't know the law either way. but how do businesses do it, surely they have cams that record video and sound? retail exemption or something?