Sell Your Home FAST With This Decluttering Strategy!

Decluttering to prepare for your home sale can be an overwhelming and stressful process. However, following the steps I've outlined in this video will help you push through the stress and put more money in your pocket when your home sells!

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[ksuryrogerg]

This lady is awesome!! I'm an appraiser (32 years) and she is hitting the nail square on the head!!

[attilaborguet]

I absolutely concur ! After a simple decluttering and cleaning, I was able to sale my flat 10% higher than first estimate… a clean, empty hallway and kitchen show buyers that there’s enough storage space 😀

[patphillips]

Jen, I really enjoy your helpful, practical advice. Thank you!

[robinpeppin]

in my last house i just sold i could put things out on the curb & it would be gone in a short time. this house i'm selling doesn't allow things to be put out on the curb, but my son told me, you can put it on your front lawn for takers, so i will be doing that as soon as the weather is amenable with dry soil. thanks for bringing this to the front of my brain, i am feeling overwhelmed. so much has to go!! i'm moving abroad in november, so the clock is ticking..., love your videos!

[KT-bghf]

This is one of the most helpful videos on decluttering in general I've seen. Thank you

[diana]

Be careful with the clock on the wall at 4:45. 😂 After I put a fresh coat of paint on my living room wall, I was trying to hang an extra large cuckoo clock back up - high over my head - and it fell on my head. Gave me a big knot and an expletive or two. 😜 However, this accident answered a question for me. I was trying to decide if I was going to keep it or get rid of it for the move. Since it shattered on the floor after bouncing off my head - no decision needed! Problem solved! 👌

[scothowe]

Great video. We are in this process right now. After 20 years of living in the same home we will be breaking ground on a new house in a couple of weeks but we have already been at it for 3 or 4 months. We have sold stuff, donated, and moved a large amount to offsite storage. We are still not done. I'm so glad we started early because it would be a nightmare otherwise.

[blujeans]

All these are great suggestions - but unless you have a 'team' it is near impossible to keep a reasonable schedule. I had my 'best laid' plans all scheduled on a spreadsheet. I even tried the 3-container sorting. I had already decluttered a few years before, so I thought I had plenty of time. I honestly believed I could pack in just a few weeks so I decided to do one of these suggestions: sell some of the items that had value. I began going through online selling sites to get values - putting them in shipping boxes (I mean, I really thought I had plenty of time). When almost nothing sold and I realized I was wasting so much time - and was way behind schedule, I just packed everything and figured I'd deal with them in the new house. Fortunately, it had a huge loft over the garage so I could sell them or do whatever, at my convenience at a later date - or for my heirs to worry about some day. :-) What was very surprising was I also had a 'garage sale' box. These items were things that had not been used much but did not have a lot of monetary value or could be even given away at the garage sale. I did give a lot of stuff away! When even those items didn't bring much - they became the dumpster pile. As for charities taking your gently used items: don't bank on that either. I called all the places that people suggested and was told by all of them: not interested in donations at this time. Definitely not furniture. I offered them for free on marketplace - but even some of them were destined for the dumpster.

[Pattysmiles-mgxp]

Yes, we are waiting for our tenant to move her smoky furniture out of our home (smoking lease violation). We should have waited for her to move before putting home on the market bc now all potential buyers coming through see and smell items that probably aren’t to their taste. Once she gets her items out, we will clean, touch up paint and stage to see if it sells.
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[bitrudder]

Nice, succinct video! Back in the day, I was reading Flylady a lot, & I especially remember her suggestion to walk through your house and look at it like a realtor would. I recommend starting this practice looong before you decide to move (which sometimes occurs unexpectedly!) It is amazing how much we accumulate - often good and useful things for different life stages - but regular purging is SO helpful.

My "helpful thoughts" include things like:

- I want fewer things to clean/clean around / getting older can mean going slower -> more of my life spent on housework

-I don't want to burden my child with decisions that are hard for me, even! It will be stressful enough on her (or my husband) at my death, or if I have a disability that sends me to a nursing home!

-I want to minimize the "stash-and-dash" before guests come for a meal or a stay.

-I love model homes. No reason I can't make my home look a lot more like a model home - decluttering, editing, enjoying!

-I hate having to move one object to get access to another. And reversing the process to put it away. By letting go, I maximize my ease and pleasure in what I DO have.

-If I find the people who want my stuff NOW, I can feel better about gifting it or selling at my leisure, vs doing it under time pressures. Relatives now have sentimental items, and I enjoy less friction getting things done in my cabinets. Win-Win!

-If I do this decluttering now, I can handle my current size of house longer, still able to enjoy houseguests and bigger gatherings!

I'm not done yet, with what I want to accomplish, but I am growing my vision/inventory of what I want to REMAIN, for everyday life now, and what, of those things, will be released/stored for staging the house for resale. (I wouldn't market it with Queen size beds in all the secondary bedrooms, though its perfect for our current guest list. They make the rooms look smaller, and young families may have Trouble visualizing themselves in that place.

I apply this concept outdoors as well - I only want portable items that are really important to me. Making new seat cushion covers and re-staining a couple of pieces is on my list!
And I want to think like a realtor 😁!

I still keep things that others might consider getting rid of. I have too many office supplies. Extra pandemic supplies. But those are OK with me as long as I limit the space Are allowed for them, and I won't need to purchase those things for a very long time. Now that prices have gone up, I am very glad to keep repurposing items, or to have them on hand.

Then there are unfinished projects, hopes and dreams. Balancing those with the vision of having a space that I adore living in and moving through. My helpful thought right now is to decide how many of those projects are really important to me, and whether accomplishing them in a limited way is enough to satisfy me.

- another helpful strategy is teaming up with other people on their projects and my projects, To help each other through the ones we find challenging, or the ones we keep putting off. I have been very happy about what we have accomplished together! We make the scope of each work- day very focused, and try to include something fun.

We put a house on the market for sale. That was well over 20 years ago. The stress level around packing was eliminated because we started early. 911 took the stuffing out of the local RE market to a large degree. I wish I could have convinced my husband to leave more things for staging, but all's well that ends well. We prayed for someone to move in who would bless our neighborhood. We did that the last time as well. Interesting, how each time there were pastors who moved in… One used our deck to minister to youth. at the next house, the pastor that moved in, along with his wife, walked every night through the neighborhood praying for the people. It was a surprise to us at the closing that our own associate Pastor was the buyer! And they were surprised that we were the sellers!

[nogames]

When I Declutter, I either give it to friends that actually say they need it, my neighbor lady, who says she needs it, charities, or with some furniture I have hauled it out to the curb and put a free sign on it. It is gone by the end of the day. I know people say sell it on craigslist or Facebook marketplace, then I’m dealing with weird people showing up at my house and I don’t want any part of that. I have nothing of great value. My time and stress level is worth much more than the 50 bucks I could get for something.

[ccalexander]

I put everything in storage and my home sold in a week with full priced offer. I had nothing in it

[jhanes]

I've been laying wood floors and updating trim. As I go through each room to clear it for the floor installation, I have been purging. I move all the stuff to the living room for staging and then edit the pile. I'm having a garage sale this weekend and what I don't sell will be donated. I also had a charity come and take furniture for a small fee. It's liberating to be free of stuff.

[markrichards]

Selling homes fully furnished is a thing here in Florida. We looked at a few of these when we were relocating, and determined that was a deal breaker. Who wants your used stuff, especially if you died. Hire a clean out crew, get rid of all that junk. The chance you will find a furnished home that suits your taste is zero.

[oskarvomhimmel]

Throw everything older than 5 years...TV's, electronics, furniture...Opportunity cost...Rent out the property for a year, write off the depreciation of the house, make up for the thrown away stuff, sell it, and ✌🏼 mofos...To greener pastures, hotter b't🤫es and warmer weathers...Friendly Mornings and Hot evenings with a happy ending 😎 Some place in the Caribbean, Mexico's Pacific Coast...or Asia to get some fresh Asiass 😜

[Dave-zlky]

If you are decluttering and making your house perfect, ask for the perfect price with only 5% wiggle room.

[oltedders]

300, 000? Who was going to all of these hoarders that did the counting?

[jjr]

Then why do people keep stealing from my crap?

[petebusch]

Get over your emotions, get a dumpster because that's where most of the junk you buy belongs since day one. Once you do you will be amazed at the weight lifted off your shoulders. Next lesson is stop buying junk based off emotions, one more Live Laugh Love sign will not make you happy.