Tired of Hearing Clean & Declutter? Us too!

The must do things if you’re looking to sell your home fast and for a top dollar still in this year, learn the expert suggestions. And if you stay till the end, I’ll give you the checklist for the top three in your organizational efforts to make it a little bit easier for you. Hi, I’m Janine Sasso, a local realtor in Schaumburg Hoffman Estates, Barrington and the surrounding suburbs of Chicago. I’m sure you heard the description of Clean and Declutter before you sell your house and show it to potential buyers. But let’s be honest. Cleaning the clutter can mean a lot of things. But what is actually we’re talking about. And this is what I’m going to show you today, the best advice I can give you. Lean on your real estate professional to get your home ready. If you have a good agent, you should be able to fully lean in on him or her because they see hundreds of homes throughout the year and they know what shows well what the buyer is like. Lean in. Make sure you have somebody that will tell you how it is. Now, this is market specific advice.

his is not HGTV. So please do not take it personal when your real estate agent is telling you something, because when it comes to selling a commodity that is worth multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars. I said, no offense, but we want to make sure you’ll get the most out of it. And hurt feelings just don’t have a place for it. Your real estate professional should be the first point of contact when it comes to that. Now, me and my team started implementing something that we personally call a project proposal, and our sellers get a fully detailed, printed out version of the project proposal. So there is no guesswork. We do not want people to make up their own rules of cleaning the clutter. We are there to make sure they know what we mean when we say clean and the clutter. Did we do a home project proposal for you? Let me know in the comments. Did you like it? I’d love to get some feedback on that. Here’s another tip when it comes to cleaning and decluttering. Be systematic about it. What does it mean? I’m glad you asked. What I mean by being systematic is to have three piles. A keep and donate or throw away and then maybe pile. So those three piles are what we’re going to be focusing on the keep.

That’s easy to donate or throw away. That’s easy. Where people get stuck is a maybe pile. The maybe pile is where you’re not quite sure one way or the other. It takes up time and it throws you for a loop. So it’s a lot easier to make decisions if you’re only looking at the maybe pile at the end, because this way you don’t have to have to worry about the keepers anymore. You do not have to worry about the other donations anymore. Just focus on the maybe pile after you fully finished putting the maybe pile together, cleaning and de-cluttering things to get a lot easier when it comes to cleaning and decluttering once you move on to closing and electronic. Only those two categories have some very simple rule posing. If you haven’t wanted in a year. I got to go. The electronics. If you haven’t used it in the last 3 to 6 months, chances are it’s been probably replaced with an app or another gadget that can do a couple other things. So don’t worry about those either. Remember the printer we all used to have or the fax machine?

Most of us now have a fax machine on our cell phone. So you’ve been told to clean and the clutter, but you have no idea what this actually means. I’m glad you came here because I’m giving you the summary of the top three cleaning and decluttering tips. Number one, turn to your local real estate professional for help. Tip number two Separate your items into piles of keep, donate or throw away. And maybe this way you can look at the maybe pile later and you don’t lose momentum on the keep or donation pile. And tip number three, electronics become obsolete faster than we like to know. And if you have clothes that you haven’t worn in the last 12 months. Out they go as well. When was the last time you cleaned in the cluttered? Let me know in the comments. I’d love to hear it.

My name is Janine Sasso. I’m in a local Schaumburg Hoffman Estates Barrington Realtor serving the northwest suburbs of Chicago. And I cannot wait for you to subscribe to our YouTube channel. Ring the bell and I’ll see you in the next video.

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