Hey there,
It's Darlene Parris with UPSTAGED!, a professional Home Staging Company right here in Los Angeles. Today we're going to finish our 5 part series of ways to avoid deal killing criticisms when trying to sell your home.
Today's tip, although it may seem very commonsensical, is not widely followed, so pay close attention. Today's tip is all about cleaning. And again, although it sounds like someone would do this all the time no matter what, it does not happen a frequently as it needs to.
So I'm going to invite you to start by looking up. Up because you want to look at all the little corners at the ceiling line in your home and make sure you're taking down all the spider webs and dust bunnies that exist there. While you're looking up, make sure you take a look at your light fixtures and clean those. They need to sparkle and shine as well as your ceiling fans. Those are notorious to harbor lots of dirt and gook as they stay up for years and years and years and some people never touch them at all.
You want to then look downwards onto your walls. Repair and paint any chipped or peeling paint on the walls but of course if your paint is in good shape, you can just go ahead and wash your walls. Not a problem.
As you continue to look further down, take a look at the floor boards and baseboards. Scrub those things! They tend to collect lots of dirt and dust over time. And if you can't get them clean, go ahead and paint them. A fresh coat of paint will make anything feel brand new.
And then of course all the way down are your floors. Your floors need to sparkle. If there's carpeting, they need to be cleaned. If the carpet is sagging, it needs to be re-stretched or replaced if your budget can handle that. If not, stretch it out, clean it up, make it fresh and ready to rock and roll.
This is no ordinary cleaning. This is not your weekly regimen cleaning. This is not even your mother-in-law coming over, white clove type cleaning where you get the kids to pitch in. This is the type of cleaning that if you can't do it yourself, hire a cleaning crew to come in and do the cleaning for you. Your cleaning crew, much like your Stager or your Real Estate Agent, are going to have fresher eyes than you. That's because you live in the home yourself. You see it all the time and every day. You don't look into all those little crevices that the rest of us do. So hire a cleaning crew to go through and fine tooth everything so that your home is pristine and buyers will appreciate that.
So again, this is Darlene with UPSTAGED!, home staging agency right here in Los Angeles. This concludes our 5 part series of Five Ways to Avoid Deal Killing Criticisms When Trying to Sell Your Home. Thank you so much for joining us. We'll catch you next time.
Darlene Parris
Interior Redesigner, Organizer, Home Stager
UPSTAGED! by Darlene Parris
888-224-0323
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