5 Things to Do Before You List Your Home to Sell
By: Kristin M. MacRae, Professional Organizer, Owner, Organizing In RI, LLC
Visit: http://www.organizinginri.com/
Visit: http://www.organizinginri.com/
If you are
getting ready to sell your home, this is a must read! Just thinking about
packing up everything you own will send you into a tailspin. Selling your home
can be an overwhelming and stressful process, but it doesn’t have to be if you
plan and prepare ahead of time.
Before you
get your home ready to sell,
1. Make a plan and organize your
thoughts. Sit and take a moment with a
pad and pen to write down your thoughts. Moving is a process and like any other
process, you have to break your project down into small manageable tasks. The minute you start to think about the
entire process on a whole, you will get overwhelmed and shut down. Start making
a list of everything you need to do. Don’t
worry about the order of which you are jotting things down. Just unload your
mind and then categorize later. It will
feel good to put everything onto paper.
2. Gather a team. Start making a list of all the people you
need to recruit to make your move a smooth transition. Do you need a moving
company, boxes, packing material, markers and tape? Do you need to bring in a
cleaning crew when you are done packing?
If the process is too overwhelming, enlist a professional organizer who
can help you keep this all together and even help you pack to make your move
seamless.
3. Declutter. Sell, toss, or
keep. Make your piles. Take inventory of
everything you own. Yes, everything!
Moving is one of the times where you actually have to go through every
item in your home. Now is the time to declutter. Don’t take anything with you
to your new home that you know you will not be using. It will be a waste of time for you to pack
items you will never use again. The transition of moving will go much smoother
if just take with you the items you need.
4. Manage your paper. Now is the time
to get control of all the paper clutter in your home. Develop a filing system
so you just aren’t throwing piles of disorganized paper into boxes. Trust me,
if you throw papers into a box, you will never go through them once you move
into your new home. The boxes will end up getting tossed in the basement or
attic. The project will be too overwhelming and it will never get done. Control
the paper clutter now.
5. Pack. Downsize.This process will only become
overwhelming if you allow it to be. Do you really need everything you own? When
was the last time you used these items. Pack what you can before you move. If
it’s holiday décor and it’s not the holiday season, go through these items,
label and pack them up now. Anything else you can pack and take care of, do it
now. It’s one less thing you have to worry about. Don’t forget to pack in an
organized fashion. Don’t just throw random items into boxes. Categorize and
itemize your boxes. Once you get to your new home you can unpack and set up
your organized systems, making the transition a breeze
You have
enough to worry about when selling your home. Think about alleviating the
stress of going through everything you own by planning and preparing ahead of
time. Put an organized plan into motion!
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