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Staging your house for top dollar
Staging your house just before it goes on the market can make a dramatic improvement in your sales. Staging's goal is to highlight the home's strengths and downplay its weaknesses. House staging is the biggest house-effect out there and for good reason: it works!
8 Staging Steps
8 easy steps that you can use for each room in your home to stage it quickly and professionally.
Staging Your Dining Room
Dining rooms were once a symbol of wealth. Ordinary middle class people ate in the kitchen. Then every new home had to have a dining room and people found out that it wasn't a lot of fun eating in the dining room every night.
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Spotless Cleaning Tips
White glove cleaning
It is amazing how many houses go on the market without anyone giving any thought to cleaning up the house. Everyone seems to have a different tolerance level to dirt. Some people are absolutely fastidious about everything, and others could care less that their are dust bunnies under the bed.
No matter what type of person you are, When selling your house you should err on the side of cleanliness. In fact, you should error on the extreme side of cleanliness— what we call "white glove clean."
White glove cleaning literally means that you should be able to wear a white glove and slide it across any surface and you'll find no dirt on the glove.
Professional cleaning tips
Cleaning can be a real chore, but here are some tips from the pros that can make is less of a job
You won't find the professional cleaners pausing to follow television soap operas or check their e-mail. Amateur cleaners, too, should limit distractions as they clean.
Use appropriate motivators to energize cleaning sessions. Play upbeat music for an energy boost. Bookworms look forward to cleaning when a book-on-tape plays in the Walkman. Cleaning as a team with friends or family members can help you stay on task and ease the boredom of a cleaning session.
Professional cleaners don't use gadgets. You'll never find them toting specialized, one-use tools, or gee-whiz gimcracks hawked on some television infomercial. Forget flimsy supermarket cheapies, and invest in modern tools. Replace the rackety sponge mop with a terry-covered Magic Mop or Sh-mop for easy, efficient floor cleaning. Buy good tools, once—because they'll have you out the door in record time.
There's a reason the pros can tote all the products they need in one tray: they've simplified cleaning products.
Professional cleaners carry:
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light-duty evaporating cleaner (glass cleaner or multi-surface cleaner)
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heavy-duty degreasing cleaner
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tile cleaner
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powdered abrasive cleanser
That's it! No soap scum remover, no special counter spray, no single-use products designed to clean only blinds or fans or walls. The pros know that these four simple products can handle any ordinary cleaning chore. Take a page from the pros! You'll save money as well as time if you streamline cleaning products.
Think Teamwork
Two people make a bed four times faster than a single cleaner working alone. Watch the pros at work. Working in teams of two or three, they make short work of an average home.
Where family circumstances permit, make cleaning a family affair. Family members are more reluctant to mess up a clean house when they have been part of the cleaning effort!