Top 5 Tips For Staging Your House | Motherhood, WTF?

I?m in the middle of the dreadful process of selling my house and buying a new one. If you?ve ever done either or both of these, then you know that it can be stressful, busy, repetitive, and annoying.

I spend my time:

• calculating hypothetical mortgage payments, hypothetical closing costs, hypothetical home-sale profits less hypothetical Realtor/attorney fees?
• scrubbing my kitchen sink, hiding my family?s toothbrushes and laundry, and timing the smells in my house ? cook with cumin only the night before a day with no scheduled house tours?
• walking through other people?s houses, seeing their scrubbed (or not) kitchen sinks, evidence (or none) of toothbrushes and laundry, and smelling their house smells?

In all of this I?ve learned a few things about getting your house sale-ready. It?s all about staging ? which means tricking your perspective buyers into thinking that if they live in your house, it will be clean.

Top 5 Tips for Staging Your House:

1. When people recommend that you declutter before showing your home, they mean it. You may have the biggest and most impressive windmill salt and pepper shaker collection this side of Amsterdam, but I don?t care. It?s distracting at best, and nightmare inducing at worst.
2. You can?t hide all evidence of having children, but you can be selective about what you leave in view. Technicolor plastic toy explosion? No. Adorable tiny sneakers? Yes.
3. You may not know it, but if you live with people who are under four feet tall, you have snot crusted on?40% of your walls. (Did you know that kids leave a slime trail not unlike slugs?) Getting it off is a?loathsome?but necessary job.
4. Magic Erasers really are magic. You will need approximately 1 for every 300 sq. feet of your home. (Alternatively, you can repaint everything.) I?m normally a huge fan of generic brands, but in this case only the real deal did the job.
5. If your house smells like mold/dog/cat/feet, bake some damn cookies.

Apply these fail-proof tips and you can sell your home twice in the first week just like I did!* ?You may also choose to follow my strict regimen of insomnia,?Xanax,?coffee, wine, rinse and repeat.

*Home sellers tip: do not think that having a signed contract means you?re done.

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