Episode 29: Getting Ready for a Showing in 10 STEPS

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It's Katie Clancy and you are watching The Cape House Show, where we give you
the tips, tools, and sense of humor you're going to need to get through the biggest
transaction of your life. Okay, today: how do you go from a house full of stuff to
broom swept in time for your closing? Here's how you do it - there are 10 steps
that I have my clients follow and these are very Cape Cod locals, so sorry folks
in California. I can't help you but I bet you have the same kind of resources near you.
1.) This is one actually is for everybody! The best thing
to do very first is to get organized in your brain. Just in your brain, not your
house. Make a plan and if you go to FlyLady.net, she has a whole page on
moving tips that are totally practical and totally doable, like mortals can do them.
2.) Remove all your personal items obviously. Start with
photos and memorabilia. If you've got a house that, let's say it's your parents
house and you've got siblings that need to come, give make an agreement. Make a
plan with them that you're going to go there, you know, two different weekends or
whatever, but have a deadline after which we start really getting rid of stuff. So
far you haven't spent any money!
3.) If you have extra blankets and towels,
take them to the Animal Rescue League in Brewster for the poochie's and
the kitties. Otherwise, they're just going to get thrown away which is terrible
because the animals need them.
4.) Any food, non-perishable food
that's unexpired, take it to your local food pantry. We have one in Yarmouth,
there's one in Harwich, and I know they're all over the Cape.
Alright, once you've gotten all that stuff, the next step
5.) (Where you might not think this is for you but you would be surprised,
is to call the auctioneer.
Eldreds auctioneer. Eric Mulak will come in, he'll take a lap
around your house. The guy's a frickin' expert on everything. He can look and see
whether this pen or that couch is worth something and if it is, they'll take it
and try to auction it and you will get money for it. So that actually can make
you money! After Eric's gone through, and you might have stuff that was sort of
on the cusp of being able to be options but not quite but
might make go to state sale,
Gaynor's Fine Consignments and Estate Sales
is the way to go there. They're associated with
Eldred's, they tend to have a pretty good following, and you will get money from
whatever they take, but they're not going to take everything, are they? Okay, so
7.) Call Denis Union Church. These guys, I don't know if
you've ever been on route 6A in Denis in the first weekend of
August, it's nuts! They have this giant, the biggest yard sale you've ever seen! It
covers an acre, plus there's a big auction tent of things that are really
valuable, that by the way Eldred's runs. So what these guys do all year is
on Tuesday mornings, they go out and they take things that people don't want
anymore from these houses that people are moving
from, and it's amazing stuff. So it doesn't cost you anything! You don't even
have to drag it out into the garage or the lawn. They just come, they take what
they need and off they go. On a good day, they'll take everything from linens
to silverware, to hard furniture. They don't take any upholstered stuff and actually,
8.) The ReStore, which benefits Habitat for Humanity is
also free, will also come and pick up, and also takes a very broad spectrum of
stuff, also will not take upholstered things.So this couch and these pillows,
I'm going to have to figure out with the next step
9.) That would be Cape Cod Recycles.
Josh Wyman has this company where he will come and he will take
everything and I mean everything! Hazardous waste, mattresses, just gross
things, they will do it all! They'll pull up carpet, whatever it is you want
they've done all of that for us. It costs you money though, that's the only thing.
That will charge by the truckload and I would say you should
plan on around a $1,000 between the truckload and whatever
disposal fees they have, because it costs a lot of money to get rid of these
upholstered things, but you always call for a quote ahead of time and he'll let you
know what its going to be and if they can sell anything within 30 days they're
going to give you some money back, so that's awesome. So they will go right to
broom swept for you, so that might be enough for most
transactions. Some of you like to take it one step further and go to
10.) Get it cleaned and ready for the next owner and when you're doing
that, there's only one cleaning company I ever recommend and it's Cleaning Divas, Christina Morales.
All of this information I will include in a blog post that I
will have hopefully soon underneath this, so you cannot click through and get
access to all of these resources or you can just come and see us at
TheCapeHouseTeam.com

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