Homes for Sale Tips: De-Cluttering and Depersonalizing your Home

Homes for Sale Tips: De-Cluttering and Depersonalizing your Home — When prepping your home for sale, understand the importance of decluttering and depersonalizing your home is the first step. The second step is actually doing it. To help you demystify the decluttering process, we’ve put together these great tips to help get your home in tip-top shape!

These decluttering and depersonalizing tips are just a few more price-improving tips available from The Wilding Team—but before you read these and move on, take a second to ponder how many more price-boosting tips you’re missing out on from NOT working with us!

Homes for Sale Tips: Decluttering

It is really important that the buyer be able to see the house and to envision themselves living there. Too much clutter and/or personal items will prevent that from happening. Since you have to pack to move anyways, you might as well do that now. It will help you in the long term in terms fo readying for moving while making your house look better. Begin getting rid of some of the clutter that you don’t want to move to the new place anyways by giving stuff away, selling things and throwing other stuff out.

Trust us, you will thank us for this decluttering advice when it comes to packing for moving!

• Clear out your closets by keeping only what you are wearing in that season. Pack away everything else and you will make your closets seem more ample.
• Don’t hide anything under the bed as it makes buyers think that there is not enough storage space in the house.
• Stop buying multiples of things like food and cleaning products. It takes up too much space and makes your home look smaller and with less storage space (if you haven’t got it by now storage space is critical when buying a home)
• Clean the yard too. Clear the clutter.
• Men: if you have any ‘projects’ on the go, finish them or pack them up. Don’t leave half-finished projects around.
• Don’t remove everything, you don’t want a bare home.
• Decluttering is tough to do without a keen and professional eye. Call us at The Wilding Team and we can help you out on it.

Homes for Sale Tips: Depersonalization

• Removing medium- to large-sized family photos.
• Remove posters from the wall because it makes buyers thinks they have to repaint the room, especially in kids or teenagers rooms. This is especially good advice if they could be construed as offensive.
• Remove names on doors of rooms (often found in kids rooms)
• Remove religious items
• Pack dog/animal toys in a basket. Also, if there is an animal bed, hide it. Clean litter boxes DAILY and use high-quality cat litter while selling your home.
• Put jewelry away and never leave credit cards, money, personal information or personal items leaving around.
• Put mail and bills away.
• Don’t leave your divorce papers lying around. Happy couples don’t want to see these.

For more must-haves on your list of home prepping tips, download our home-seller’s guide today!