Remote property handover: documenting the process

If someone attends on your behalf, agree their task, authority, checklist and defect-recording process. Remote handover needs more than a message saying “done.” Request a report linking photographs to rooms, systems and agreed fittings.

Practical steps

1. Check the representative's authority before any handover document is signed
2. Request video, photos, meter readings and a key inventory
3. Identify who follows up defects and how completion will be documented

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