Keller Williams Realtor Cathy Mankus has guided dozens of clients through getting their homes ready to sell. But in putting her own house on the market, she experienced how tough it can be to follow her own advice.
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Take decluttering. It’s essential to keep the buyer’s attention focused on the house and not the furnishings. But even after two large garage sales and selling additional items online, Mankus found she still had too much “stuff.” She cleared out more possessions and brought in a few colleagues to evaluate what she’d done. They all agreed that more had to go.
The problem, said Mankus, “was that I kept on thinking of it as my house, and I can’t think of it as my house anymore. It’s a house for someone else to buy.”
She ended up bringing in professional stagers who could be more detached in deciding what needed to stay and go.
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