A Clean House Puts Your Home’s Best Foot Forward So many times I’ve heard buyers talk about a clean house; they comment on how clean and well-maintained, or not, a home is. Today I want to share what you should focus on when getting your home ready for sale regarding cleaning.  Especially if, for whatever reason, you’ve decided not to do updates, presenting a clean house that sparkles is so important! Washing the walls, baseboard molding, and other trim is a great investment of your time. If you removed wallpaper, you saw the mess around all the moldings.  If you didn’t get a chance to remove wallpaper, you may want…

Declutter to Sell…Say Goodbye to Your Personality… Twenty years ago, staging a home as we do now was unheard of.  Certainly we Realtors would advise a seller to declutter to sell to help create an appearance of plenty of space.  We would give sellers guidance and direction about moving furniture to improve traffic flow, etc. but staging as we do today? No… I remember listing a house back in 1996, and the woman selling it was 100 years old.  She finally had to move in with her 70-something daughter.  The house was so chock full of things…furniture and stuff and frankly a lot of junk that I went through all…