Home Makeovers That Sell

CHAPTER3

Cleaning for Dollars

There are two ways you can clean a home: hire a professional cleaning company or do it yourself. Of course, hiring a professional leaves you free to have fun, while doing it yourself gives you dishpan hands but saves some bucks.

If the home will be vacant while it’s on the market, spending a few hundred dollars for professional house cleaners just before you move is a money-making investment.

Sometimes homeowners are so frazzled by the time all their stuff is loaded that cleaning is usually done half-hearted or skipped entirely. That can adversely affect what they need most—a quick sale so they don’t have to feed ...