Has the Covid-19 put off your plans to sell your home at this time?
Are you self-isolating in your house?
If your answer is yes then now might be a great time to be “sprucing up” your house so it is ready for the market.
If you have read my previous posts you will have a list of what to do to prepare the exterior of the house as well as the mechanical system. Another project would be to start decluttering. Because of what is happening and the children being at home this would be a great time to go through each bedroom and start decluttering. (When the children are in school this would become a week-end project.) Closets would be the perfect place to start. As we are also moving from the winter season to the spring and summer season you can go through each closet with your child and check what he/she has overgrown or no longer wearing and start a pile of clothes that is no longer needed so that once you have completed the decluttering of the closets you can bag the clothes and drop them off at a location that collects used clothing and items or you can call the Diabetes Association and they will give you a date that they will be in your neighbourhood and will pick up your clothing/small item bags or boxes directly from your front porch. If there are loose items at the bottom of the closet or on shelves putting them in “cool” baskets helps your child to be organized and makes the closet look much neater. This will leave a good impression with the Buyers when they open the closet door. An alternative to baskets is simply to go to a “Dollar store” and buy colourful gift bags (same or different sizes) and use those to organize the closets. This is a nice cheap substitute if you will not be using them in the new home. Having your closets look as big as possible is definitely a “SELLING FEATURE”. Once each child has decluttered and organized their closet it is time to move to yours and do the same thing!
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