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Declutter & Reclaim
Useful Space
Tips for Preparing Your House for Sale
In real estate, buyers buy space and a ‘feeling’ The
more space you’re able to show, whether it be living or
storage space, the more you’ll be able to sell for so
begin with editing rooms with content that you can pre-
pack and live without while selling.
1. Go through each room in your home, 2. Restore rooms to core functions
take inventory, and categorize. Give the rooms a functional identity and return them to
their original intended use. For example, if your living
TRASH room is doubling as an exercise room, change it back to a
living room. When the rooms are in disarray with mixed
• Expired food & medications functions, buyers will likely think the design of your house
isn’t well laid out or they’ll think a room is missing
• Dated phone books altogether.
• Broken items that can’t be easily fixed
3. De-personalize
DONATIONS
You want your buyers to visualize themselves living in their
Consider giving stuff in good condition but no longer new house. Personal artifacts can distract such as
useful to you to family, friends, charitable organizations, photographs, souvenirs, trophies, medals, and certificates,
or advertise in the free section of the classified ads in posters, religious items, and family heirlooms. Choose to
your local newspaper or Craigslist.
pre-pack these items to make it easier on you when
moving.
• Clothing, shoes, and accessories
4. Pack for moving
WHAT TO KEEP
Ask the following questions to yourself: Once you’ve thrown away unwanted items, returned the
things of others, donated the stuff you don’t and won’t
• Do you know what it does? need, and returned the rooms to their core functions, the
house will feel a whole lot lighter and spacious. Create
• Did you even remember you have it? even more space by packing any excess or infrequently
used items. Consider obtaining an offsite storage location,
• Have you used it since your last move? or in a corner of the attic, basement, or crawlspace.
