{"id":6619,"date":"2018-11-27T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T23:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2020-08-11T19:20:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T02:20:55","slug":"what-can-go-wrong-at-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/what-can-go-wrong-at-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"What Can Go Wrong at Closing? How to Prevent an 11th Hour Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sale of your home requires a million little details to come together without a glitch all the way through the final signature. In fact, 32% of settlement delays<\/a> come from buyer financing issues which can crop up at the very last minute.<\/p>\n

So we asked a top agent in the field who\u2019s facilitated 751 real estate deals all about what can go wrong at closing, and how to best prevent problems from arising in the first place.<\/p>\n

To be clear, some steps throughout closing will be out of your hands. But by anticipating snags rather than reacting to them, you can expect the unexpected, over-communicate, and act swiftly to take care of any problems right away.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s just a matter of communication between myself and the other agent to make sure that, number 1, if there’s an issue that’s happening, we see a red flag, then we have to deal with that,\u201d says\u00a0Ray Chadderton<\/a>, a top real estate agent in Tampa, Florida who sells more than 71% more properties than the average agent in his area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cAnd for the seller, we need to know as soon as possible because we don’t want to keep a house on the market that isn’t going to get to closing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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