Keeping your home tidy while selling tips: This checklist is super helpful for anyone who has just put their house on the market. I know from personal experience just how time-consuming and annoying it is trying to keep your space spotless. If you’ve instructed an estate agent, read my keeping your home tidy while selling tips for advice.
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Keeping Your Home Tidy While Selling Tips Starts With Decluttering and Deep Clean
To begin with, you need to get your home to a high standard of cleanliness and tidiness before you put it on the market. Your home should look its best before asking the estate agent for a valuation and taking photographs.
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When the viewings start happening, this is your opportunity to impress. You do need to pull out all the stops. Make sure your home is clean and tidy for every visit. It becomes more difficult if you have pets and kids, and I’m not pretending it’s going to be easy. These days estate agents tend to give you notice before viewing, but you should be ready within half an hour should you get a last-minute call from your agent. Read the following articles: Declutter Your Home Before Selling Your Property and Staging Your Home To Sell Ideas.
Keeping Your Home Tidy While Selling Tips Is Easy With Organisation
You need to have a weekly and daily cleaning schedule. Each week you should give your kitchen and bathroom a thorough clean. Vacuum all floors and dust. Before you leave for work each day, tidy up after yourself. Don’t leave dirty laundry hanging around or washing up in the sink. Wipe the basin after you use it, and always clean the toilet. Buy a set of fresh towels you can put out before a viewing, along with new, unused soaps.
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Get yourself into a routine so that you can spring into action whenever you get a last-minute viewing. You can divide up the tasks with your partner and get the kids on board to tidy up their rooms. If you can get your daily routine down to twenty minutes, then at least you only need to wake up a little earlier than usual!
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You might want to call in the professionals if you’re very busy. Employ a window cleaner to tackle your dirty windows every month or two weeks. Get in a professional cleaning company to spruce up your house weekly. Recruit a gardener to mow the lawn and prune your hedges. It will cost you more money, but if it swings a sale, it will pay off in the long run.
How To Keep Your Home Tidy While Selling Tasks
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Monthly Tasks
• Garden: Cut grass, sweep paths and patio, prune bushes and cut hedges
• House: Remove cobwebs from ceiling and clean windows
• Kitchen: Clean oven and fridge
Weekly Tasks
• General Clean: Vacuum all floors, clean the bathroom and kitchen
• Flowers: Buy fresh flowers
Daily Tasks
• Kitchen: Wash up, wipe down work surfaces, dispose of rubbish
• Bathroom: Clean basin, bath, shower and toilet; put fresh towels and soap out
• Living Room: Tidy up toys, plump up the cushions, open up the curtains
• Bedroom: Make the bed, put dirty laundry in the wash basket
• Pets: Clean out pet food bowls and cat litter trays
Good luck with your house sale!
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