Home Depot reported a 24 percent decline in profit on Monday. Declining new home construction and big-ticket renovations are largely responsible. Many people are postponing plans to build new homes; instead, they are making do with their current homes.
But waiting is not an option for some people. If you need to sell your house now, you need to price it right and really make it stand out from the competition. Most experienced real estate agents will tell you to make your house look and smell as fresh and clean as possible. Make it look like no one lives there; potential buyers want to imagine what the rooms will look like after they move in, not what it looks like with your stuff in it.
That's a dilemma. How do you make your home look like no one lives in it? Well, one way is to put as much stuff as possible in out-of-sight locations. Adding some storage space in an attic, basement or garage, for example, doesn't have to take much time or money, but it certainly can help make your bedrooms and other living spaces look as clean and uncluttered as possible. And having that extra storage space could become a selling point in its own right.
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