If you’re selling a home in Las Vegas, your real estate agent will most likely tell you to depersonalize and declutter the entire space. But what does that mean, why do you need to do it, and what happens if you don’t? This guide explains.
5 Tips for Depersonalizing and Decluttering Your Home to Sell
Check out the five most important tips for depersonalizing and decluttering your home to sell:
- Take down collections
- Remove anything potentially controversial
- Replace family photos
- Follow the six-month rule
- Look at your furniture with a critical eye
Here’s a closer look at each.
Tip #1 for Depersonalizing and Decluttering Your Home to Sell: Take Down Collections
If you have collections on display, whether they involve stuffed animals, movie memorabilia, sports, or anything else, you’ll want to take them down before people come to see your home. In fact, you’ll want to remove them before your real estate agent sends someone to take photos for your listing. That’s because your home should appear as neutral as possible; in fact, it should look like a model home while it’s on the market. Even if prospective buyers are into the same things that you are, you want to provide them with the ability to imagine themselves living in your space. You can’t do that if the home is too personalized.
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Tip #2 for Depersonalizing and Decluttering Your Home to Sell: Remove Anything Potentially Controversial
If you have absolutely anything in your home that could be considered controversial or risque, it needs to come down before you have listing photos taken. That goes double for political decor, as well as religious decor. You don’t want to alienate any prospective buyers with your decor; people visit your home to see its best features, not the things that define the people currently living there. Again, you want your home to look like a model in a brand new subdivision. That means everything should be neutral.
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Tip #3 for Depersonalizing and Decluttering Your Home to Sell: Replace Family Photos
Take down your family photos and other personalized decor. You should also remove photos of pets, because not everyone wants to think about the fact that a pet is living or has lived in the home. In addition to privacy concerns, your family photos can distract buyers from what they’re really there to see: your home’s best features.
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Tip #4 for Depersonalizing and Decluttering Your Home to Sell: Follow the Six-Month Rule
When you declutter, you should be ruthless. You don’t have to get rid of things, but you do have to send them elsewhere until you move into your next home. Follow the six-month rule, which says but if you haven’t used something in the past six months, you’re very unlikely to need it during the time that your home is on the market. Additionally, take this opportunity to get rid of things that you intended to fix but never got around to, clothes that you don’t wear, toys your children don’t play with and other items you no longer need.
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Tip #5 for Depersonalizing and Decluttering Your Home to Sell: Look at Your Furniture With a Critical Eye
If you have furniture that has seen better days, it’s time to put it into storage until your home sells. Additionally, if you have any furnishings that abstract clear walking paths or make rooms appear too full, send them away – at least temporarily.
Remember, the things you take out of your home now are things you don’t have to pack up and move after you sell.
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