The Insider's Guide To Selling Your Home By Owner- Rocio Fausto I | Page 116

Chapter 9

Staying Safe When
Selling Your Home
Here is a little known fact that most For-Sale-by-Owners do
not realize. You are inviting thieves into your home when you put
it on the market.

Criminals see a home for sale and
view it as an opportunity.
After all, what easier way is there for a criminal to get inside
your home? Thieves love homes for sale.
Not because they are looking for a home. Because they are
looking for something to steal.

When criminals come thru your home they
see:
 If you have anything worth a trip back to steal.
 Whether or not you are an easy target.
 How your security system works.
 Whether or not you turn on your security system.
 The back door and how well you lock it.
 All of the most intimate details of your personal life.
 You may slip up and tell them when you won't be
home. It is so easy to say, "Oh, I can't show your spouse
the home next Thursday. We will be out of town on
vacation."
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