What Documents Do You Need To Buy Or Sell A Home?

Buying or selling a home can be intimidating from the strict point of view of the paperwork involved. What documents do I need? Where do I find these papers? What do I do if I can't find them easily? Who needs to produce what documentation to whom?

One of the things a good real estate agent will do is help their buyers and sellers get all the needed paperwork together. Great real estate agents are perfectly capable of assisting clients when documentation is missing or if there are problems that need to be fixed -- like a 20-year-old lien that was never lifted, or a deed was never properly transferred in a previous sale. Like it or not, things of that nature do come up and will completely destroy a sales process. So getting your paperwork together is an important first step. To make it a little easier for you, here is a list of 10 documents you need to gather together if you are about to buy a home or sell your home.