Ridding the Clutter in your Home
When you put your home up for sale, you know you need to keep it clean. What many people don’t realize is that cleaning and de-cluttering are two separate things.
De-cluttering is even tougher to do because we live with the amount of clutter we’re comfortable with and what someone else sees as clutter are items that we may treasure. However, de-cluttering a home has proven to be one of the easiest and most economical ways to accelerate the sale of your home.
Look in magazines and online for de-cluttered houses. While you don’t want to redecorate, look at what’s included and what’s missing in these photos. The tend to be personal and that is not a good thing when trying to sell your home.
Now look at your house on a room-by-room basis and see how it compares.
Since you’re planning on moving any way, get boxes and begin packing. Start boxing the items that you love but don’t need such as pictures of your family or your child’s kindergarten artwork. Your rooms will immediately look bigger and less cluttered. Go through every room several times. If there are some things you just can’t pack away, even though you don’t use them on a daily basis, find a place to store them so they aren’t taking up the space a buyer will be looking at for a first impression.
This process is harder if you have small children. The toys that they haven’t touched in a year, suddenly become their lifeline if you suggest packing them away. They simply cannot live without them. In that case, reach a compromise by putting some items in storage while others are packed away at home, then rotating the boxes so they can have access to their toys.
Also embrace this task with items you feel you may need, such as books, DVDs, other collections. Shelves should hold the bare minimum.
This process will help sell your home and give you a leg up when it comes time for the big move.
In addition to adding appeal and value, de-cluttering your home helps you in another big way when it comes to marketing. If the house is already free of the extraneous stuff of life, you will always be ready the moment the realtor calls to announce the visit of a potential buyer. Keeping everything clean will also be easier when there are fewer things to dust and clean around, meaning you have less work to do to be ready to sell your home.
Author bio: Steve Geiger is a freelance writer and currently publishes reviews of best web hosting and cheap hosting.
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