Real Estate Round-Up: O is for occupancy

This year, I have been going through the alphabet, writing an article each week that correlates to a letter of the alphabet. Beginning with the letter A, arriving this week to the letter O. Some letters required more than one week to cover the topic.

For example, the last two weeks I wrote on the letter N for negotiating. The first week addressed various negotiating techniques focused on buyers. The second week focused on negotiating for the benefit of sellers. This week I move on to O, for occupancy.

In a real estate transaction, occupancy is the day and time that the new owner gets to move-i...