This is why you NEED to winterize a vacant home

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Claudia S. Nelson Realtor with Keller Williams Realty

This is what can happen when a vacant home is not winterized!!!!

Today I was out showing Woodbridge Single Family Homes and Woodbridge Townhomes to first time home buyers. One of the homes was a lovely Single Family Home which happened to be bank owned and sold as a Woodbridge Foreclosure. The home showed very nicely as the bank has painted it and put in new carpet. We were looking at the master bedroom when I saw one of my clients almost fall in the master bath. It took me a few seconds to realize what was going on.

My client walked into the Master Bathroom and stepped onto an ice rink. The Bathroom floor could have been the Prince William Ice Center it was completely iced. I am not quite sure what happened if someone left the faucet on, if the pipes simply busted or if the trip in the faucet caused this. No matter what caused this the end result is frozen water in the sink and a slippery, icy bathroom floor. Of course I tried to investigate and saw that there was ice in one of the cabinets and on the pipe, so it might have been a pipe that busted, but I am not a plumber and wouldn't know these things. I called the listing agent to give him the bad news.

This illustrates how important it is to winterizing a vacant property. The temperatures here in Woodbridge were below freezing all night and I believe most of the day as well. I didn't really check the thermometer but I can tell you it was coooooold. The fact that the heat was not on in this house made it colder inside the home then it was outside. At least that's how it felt.

Just like every home owner should winterize their home before the winter arrives, meaning they need to shut off the water to the outside faucets, a vacant home should be winterized to avoiding something like this.

Be sure to ALWAYS winterize your vacant home to avoiding any costly problems. There are several good online resources on how to winterize your property, but the best way is to hire a company that specializes in winterizing properties. They will professionally winterize the home and when you need the home to be de-winterized they will professionally do that as well.

Don't take a chance especially when it gets as cold as it has been over the past couple of days here in Woodbridge Virginia!

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About the author: The above Real Estate information on why you need to winterize a vacant home was provided by Claudia S. Nelson, an award winning Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Realty in Woodbridge Virginia.  Claudia can be reached via email at Claudia@VARealEstateExperts.com or by phone at 571-285-4319. Claudia has helped countless Northern Virginia Home Buyers and Home Sellers over the past Years.

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