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When preparing your home to sell, there’s a lot of checklists you can follow. But if you’re not careful, the de-cluttering of one area can quickly lead to the cluttering up of another area. Remember, you’re working to make your ENTIRE home appealing to home buyers, not just the main living spaces. When a home hits the market, it needs to be completely organized where all rooms appear as large as possible and completely functional to potential home buyers. An example of de-cluttering would be removal of all ottomans from living spaces. Items such as these are space killers and do nothing when it comes to making rooms appealing to homebuyers. They are in fact detriments that cause home buyers to walk-around them, while taking the buyers focus away from home’s important details. Just as importantly, they can prevent a home buyer from envisioning their own furniture and items in your home.
When removing items like ottoman’s from your living spaces, you’ll need to make room for them in your unfinished areas. Doing so often means you’ll have to get rid of unnecessary items already occupying the space in your unfinished areas. You simply can’t accept moving furniture to the basement if it’s going to give home buyers the appearance that the home lacks adequate storage space. And under no circumstances would you want to stack the items in an unsafe manner or let the items get double deep away from the storage room walls.
The best plan of attack when moving is to get rid of unnecessary items before your home goes on the market. The first consideration is often to donate the item but many items that are of little value to you will be of even less value to others — in other words, charities don’t want to come and haul off your trash for free. If you’ve gotten this far, you’re remaining options are probably to call your cousin Earl to come take the items, haul the items to a landfill yourself, have a company haul the items away or have a roll off dumpster delivered to your home. The list below will help you get going on many of these possibilities…
Posted by Jason A. Brown