1.   Disassociate Yourself With Your Home.

From the day you received the keys to your home till now, your home has been your home.  Your place in the world for yourself, your family, and your friends.  The day you decide to sell your home it must cease being your home and it must now become a house, a commodity, a product to be sold to the highest bidder.  Your home is now someone else’s home.  By disassociating yourself from your home and “letting go”, you will allow yourself to make better choices as you prepare your home for sale and better decisions as you negotiate on the sale.

2.   De-Personalize and De-Clutter.

Unless you are a little obsessive compulsive or completely unsentimental when it comes to photography, your home probably looks lived in.  You probably have personalized your home with photographs of family and friends.  You also probably have some business papers piled on your desk, books piled up on a side table, and various kitchen gadgets piled along your kitchen counter.  If you have any of those things, get them out of there.  Remove all of the wedding pictures, vacation pictures, and baby pictures.  You want people to look at your home and imagine themselves in your home. Second, you need to remove all of the unnecessary stuff that you have accumulated over the years that is now cluttering your kitchen counter-tops, desks, tables, floors, and bathrooms.  You need to go minimalist in a big way.  The less stuff you have in your home, the larger the spaces in your home will appear.  You need to convert your home into a showroom.

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