Selling Your Home While You Live In It
If selling a home isn’t stressful enough, living in it while you are selling it is! You never know when someone is going to want to swing by your home, so you want to make sure it’s always kept presentable. How do you keep a home in tip-top shape while continuing to live your day to day life?
As Realtors in Birmingham, we have some experience advising homeowners on maintaining their home. These steps seem to really help! Take a look!
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#1. Do A Deep Clean
The first step to maintaining an impeccably clean home is to deep clean it. Set aside a weekend and get your hands dirty. We are talking about scrubbing from the floors to the ceilings. From the windows, to the walls!
This deep clean will set the standard for how you want your home to look for each and every viewing. Make sure, in this time, that you also wash all of your dishes and clothes (and put them away neatly).
#2: Schedule and Assign
Once your home is perfectly tidy, sit the family down and create a schedule. You will want to create a block of time for washing the dishes, making the beds, and doing the laundry. These are the three hardest things to stay on top of when selling a home. If you set a schedule for them to be done every single day, it becomes quite easy.
Additionally, you will want at least 15 minutes scheduled out every night for family members to gather up their belongings and put them away. Finally, assign major cleaning chores, like windows, dusting, and vacuuming, for 2-3 times a week. All of this should leave your house sparkling throughout the long selling process.
#3: Hide Your Stuff
Keeping a house completely clear of clutter can be hard, especially if you have children. As realtors in Birmingham, one of the most genius solutions we have seen sellers use is bins. As children, we all hid our stuff under the bed, but that won’t cut it when you are making a sale. What will? Hiding clutter under the bed, in opaque bins.
Obviously, we only encourage this for major time crunches, but having a place to hide a mess away is very helpful. Placing opaque bins under beds still looks cleanly, and provides a nice hideaway!
There you have it: three easy steps to keeping a clean home while it is on the market! It really isn’t as much work as you think it is – the main key is sticking to it. If you are successful in keeping a clean home, you could even make more money. Statistics have shown that a clean home can boost the price of a home by an average of $2,000! That is pretty encouraging, right?
Are you looking for Realtors in Birmingham to help you make your big sale? ARC Realty would love to help! Feel free to contact us about your home.
