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5 Easy Steps to Earn $20,000/Hour
I bet you didn’t realize when your parents had you doing mindless chores as a child that they were in fact training you in one of the highest-paid skill-sets you’d ever learn. They were literally educating and refining your ability to generate $20,000 an hour. Never-mind that a monkey can do the same tasks.
Here’s the deal:
Your house is listed for sale. You’ve followed all the Realtor’s instructions to RUTHLESSLY de-clutter and de-personalize the home. It looks like an Ikea display. It’s perfect!
But you’re still living there. You’re still dirtying dishes, cycling through your laundry, tracking in the outside when you come inside. You’re just living, and you gotta live, right?
Yes, but…
Your life and its daily stuff are distracting, and you don’t want a distracted buyer looking at your house. You want the buyer to notice ALL the good stuff about the house with no diversions and no distractions, so that they’re inspired to cry out, preferably with tears of longing in their eyes:
“I want to live this way!!!”
THAT is when buyers buy. And you can vastly increase the odds of that happening with a mere 15 minutes of focused effort. Here’s what you do…
Next time the phone rings and a buyer’s Realtor wants to show the house, schedule an extra 15 minutes before the moment you have to leave (ALWAYS leave!!!) and then recite this little ditty:
“Broom, vacuum, dust.
Dishes and clothes.”
“Broom, vacuum, dust.
Dishes and clothes.”
That’s your new “Seller’s Mantra.” Put a tune to it and sing ’til it’s stuck, then do this:
1) Get out the broom and sweep all the hard surface floors. No dirt, no pine needles, no leaves, no nothing. Sweep them clean.
2) Grab the vacuum, plug it in and let that sucker start sucking. Now dance around the house and touch every inch of carpet with those spinning brushes! Just do it!
3) Wet a rag, wring it out hard, and wipe, wipe, wipe those horizontal surfaces. Built-ins, furniture, jewelry boxes, picture frames. If it’s dusty, dust it. Hello! Top-o-the-fridge? Dust it!
4) Dirty dishes? Are you kidding me? No, no, NO!!! Load the dishwasher or better yet wash that stack of breakfast dishes and put them away. Put them ALL away.
5) Clothes: Gone! Clean laundry, dirty laundry, dry cleaning… if it’s a garment that’s worn by a human (or a cat, dog, or doll) it’s in a dresser or closet. Period.
Fifteen minutes of practically mindless chores will, like magical hypnosis, get you an offer $5000.00 higher than if those same buyers had seen dishes in the sink, dirt on the floor, and laundry in a pile. Because you’re PROVING to the buyer that you are ON IT! You get it. You’re pro-actively selling your house, not re-actively struggling to keep up with the day to day and therefore are surely an easy mark for a lower offer.
Five grand for 15 minutes calculates out to $20K/hour. Call Mom and Dad and tell them “Thanks” for the skills!
