Preparing to sell your home

 Preparing to sell your home 

Here are some tips on how to prepare yourself for sale and how to get over the fact that you are giving your home up. Moving is hard, especially if it is your first home, however, you have to take steps to motivate yourself to let go. You have your reasons why you are leaving, but now you have to accept the fact that you are leaving the home for bigger and better things. Here are some tips on how to prepare your home and yourself for a move. 

The first thing that you have to do is to disassociate yourself from the house. There comes to a point in a homeowner's life when they have to tell themselves that they no longer own a home. Once you have decided to let it go, you need to be able to say goodbye. You can imagine handing over the keys or whatever it takes to get you to face the truth of your decisions. 

The second thing that you need to do is to take down everything personal. Take the pictures off the walls as well as other family heirlooms. You need to pack away everything that makes the house a home. This step is very important. You want the people who come to see your home to see themselves in the home, not your family. They need to imagine all of the things that they could do to make it a home, not look at home. 

You also need to sort and discard. Basically, you need to go through all of it. Get rid of the junk and pack up all the things that you need to leave the home. Put the kick-knacks in a box, along with all your other things. Cleaning helps people let go. They feel better about a sale when the cleaning starts. Once you have everything in a box you are able to let go, no matter how many memories surround the house. Even if you just decided to move you should pack everything that you don't need because it helps you become prepared for the big move. 

While you are cleaning you need to organize. You need to have things stacked neatly and you can even alphabetize your can goods. Anything that takes the focus off of you and places it on the appearance of the home is the goal of organizing. You want the snoopy visitors to think that you were an amazing homemaker. 

You may also want to rent a storage unit. If you can remove some of the furniture that tends to be in the way and place them in storage you will feel like your house is less of a home. It will make the moving process easier because, by the time that you leave, you don't feel like the place is yours. Also, you need to get rid of the times that you loved the most. If you have a chair that you always sat in, you will find that you can pull away from the home quickly if you take that chair away. You won't feel comfortable in the home anymore. This will also motivate you to pick a new home to move into.