Moving house can be just as exciting as it is arduous and leaving a place clean and tidy with information about the services/area can help your buyers settle in a little easier. Below are some tips on how you can make their lives a little easier.

• Leave your house as you would hope to find it. We're not talking a full spring clean here but wiping ring marks from work surfaces, vacuuming up the dust from behind long-standing items after you've move them and giving the toilet a once-over goes such a long way to making people feel more comfortable with their new environment (remember they will have had a tough day of packing, lifting and travelling behind them already).
  
• Remember to empty your bins and write down the times and days of refuse recycling collections so that your buyers know when to leave theirs out.
  
• Leave out all the keys that relate to your property. The front door key goes without saying (as the agent will probably hold these) but keys for things such as sheds, greenhouses, outbuildings and more importantly, windows will need to be tagged so that your buyer knows which is which.
  
• Make sure that all of your utilities - Gas, Water, Electricity, are switched off (not cut off) and leave operating instructions for things such as the central heating, gas fires and boilers and locations for things such as Stop Cocks for Gas and Water and Mains Switches for Electricity.
  
• Also point out locations of utility meters and take meter readings, leaving copies for your new buyers so that there can be no dispute for any utility settlement.
  
• Do a quick check against your fixtures and fittings list (which your solicitor will have forwarded to you) to make sure you have left all that you said you would leave.
  
• You may wish to leave a forwarding address if you have chosen not to have your mail forwarded directly by the Post Office.