The document provides tips for quickly hiding items in a home before a real estate showing. It suggests hiding things under beds, in washing machines and dryers, in refrigerators, behind couches, and in car trunks. It cautions that refrigerators are risky since children will be in and out. The document also advises keeping areas like kitchen drawers, closets, and laundry rooms constantly tidy since buyers will look in those places.

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quick hiding places
spend a little…
get a lot
• to clean brass plates and
doorknobs, apply a thin
coat of window cleaner
with a soft cloth, let dry
and rub lightly to polish.
this will keep brass tarnish
free for months.
• to clean bricks, squeeze a
bit of denture cream onto what do you do when your realtor own things, since obviously you don’t have
a wet toothbrush and calls and wants to show your home in the space. if you need a reminder of the
scrub the grout. wipe say, ½ an hour? jump for joy first, basics of preparing your house for sale, re-
clean with a damp cloth. since someone wants to look at your fer back to our online guide, how to sell
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knobs on stoves, ovens so, what you need to know is… at the last
and appliances. apply with since we all know that the first im-
minute, where can you hide things?
pression is important, especially if you
a cloth and rinse well with
want to sell your home in the next dec- 1. under the bed
water.
ade, we have a few tips that will help
you quickly hide away “stuff”. but it’s spacious, easy to get to, and no one
• to clean a fireplace first, you have to know where the buy- in their right mind would get down on their
screen, vacuum off the ers are going to look, and ensure that hands and knees to look there during their
dust, and scrub the screen these places are constantly tidy. first visit.
with a sponge and sudsy
places that buyers will look include 2. in the washer and dryer
water. when dry, brush the
the oven, any closets, kitchen drawers,
screen with a coat of self- who hasn’t seen the commercial where a
laundry room, and the kitchen pantry.
polishing floor wax. little kid has stashed a pet in there? we
think about it, these places give them
don’t recommend putting your pets in
an indication, essentially, of how much
there, but clothes and shoes and stuff can
storage space there is. if they’re over-
easily fit.
flowing, the buyers will think there
just isn’t enough room to store their (continued on the next page)
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2. quick hiding places (continued)
although buyers like to look in the laundry, to 4. behind the couch
see the size and neatness, they won’t be look- that is, if the couch is against the wall. we all
ing to see if you actually have things in there. know that things get trapped there anyway, so it
our caution is to let everyone in the family could be a quick opportunity to drop a toy or
know that it’s a hiding place, and to never wayward socks for a quick fix.
start the machines without checking the con-
tents first. 5. in the trunk of your car
3. in the refrigerator your garage or carport needs to be tidy. if it
isn’t garbage day, yet you have bags lying
this is risky, you know your kids are going to around, drop them in. skateboards and roller
be in and out of the fridge – and how embar- blades are a hazard anyway, so drop them in too.
rassing would it be to have a shoe fall out? on nobody has a right to check in your vehicle, take
the other hand, if you’ve just walked in from advantage of that fact!
the grocery, you can certainly stash the entire
grocery bag in there, until you’re ready to un-
pack it and put things away neatly.
how to avoid the most expensive mistakes finding the right real estate agent can make
smart people make when they sell a all the difference in the sale of your home...
home...
critical questions to ask: will you produce a flyer or
mistake #5: refusing to make cosmetic
brochure for my home and what will it look like?
changes
take a careful look at the materials the agent has
the prospective home buyer's first produced to market their current listings. do the
impression is the most important. Hundreds quality, design and wording of the materials
or thousands of home sales have been lost seem to present each home in the best light? put
to unkempt lawns, cluttered rooms, bad yourself in a potential buyer’s shoes - would you
stains, unpleasant odors... all the seemingly be interested in the homes after seeing these
little things. Imagine you were the home materials?
buyer and clean your place from top to
bottom... just like you'd like to find it.
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