Selling your home is time consuming and stressful. The last
thing that you need on top of all of that is additional work. Yet under most
home sale or apartment lease agreements you must leave your home in presentable
condition upon moving out. What can a lazy person do? Grin and bear it and
spend the time cleaning? Of course not! This article will provide the lazy man
guide to cleaning when you are selling or moving out of your home.
The Case For Simplifying Your Move:
Movers are generally paid per hour or based upon the quantity of items that they need to move. By simplifying your move through discarding a significant amount of items you will likely be able to cut down on the moving bill significantly. This should provide significant savings for you over time and can assist you in reducing your work in unpacking items and setting them up in your new home.
Consider What’s Important:
Most people accumulate tons of junk over time. Many times these items seem just too precious throw away from the start but over time you see how worthless these items are. Junk piles on top of junk and you are likely left with a big headache. Go through your apartment and segregate all of those items that you feel as if you must absolutely hold onto. Treat all the remaining items as junk.
Sell or Dispose of What’s Left:
With this junk you have to decide whether you can resell it or if you should just discard it. While it may seem like a lot of work to sell items, it often is not that difficult. If you have lots of old books lying around you can visit a bookstore and see if they will buy them from you. If so, you just removed a good amount of your cleanup costs and made a bit of money on the side.
For larger items such as furniture, post on a listing board and see if anyone is willing to purchase these items. If not, then see if they will haul it out of your home for free. Many individuals are willing to pick up free furniture and other items and this can remove a lot of your headaches associated with cleaning before a move. This is a great way to get rid of large items without incurring moving costs.
If you cannot sell something consider donating it to charity. You will likely receive a significant charitable donation deduction in return. You may also feel good about yourself, despite your laziness.
Throw Away the Rest:
For items that you cannot donate or resell, just throw them away and be done with it. Put it all in a large garbage bag and throw it away. You should be left with a pretty barren house after this and now is the time to use the money that you accumulated from the sale of your goods or the charitable donations to hire a professional home cleaner or maid service.
Why is it important to hire a maid service when there are no large items left to dispose? This is due to the time consuming nature of cleaning the remainder of your home. Think about the time and effort needed to wipe the countertops, clean the fridge, clean the grime out of the shower, and even to remove the rust and grease from the top of the stove.
All of this is much easier to accomplish with a professional maid service who have the tools and cleaning chemicals to wipe your home clean. And if you are moving out of an apartment, consider contacting your landlord to see if they can recommend any cleaning services. Often times they have experience with different cleaning companies and can recommend one that they are pleased with. The added benefit is that if you tell them you used this service, they may be less likely to use your rent security deposit to hire their own cleaning service.
Summary:
Cleaning out your home is a time consuming and annoying process. Simplify it and make it much easier for yourself by only keeping those items that are essential to your life. Put those items aside and sell or donate whatever else you can. For the remaining items, simply throw them away. From the proceeds you earned through your sale or donation, hire a professional home cleaner to take care of the little details. Then sit back and relax. Your earned it!
The Case For Simplifying Your Move:
Movers are generally paid per hour or based upon the quantity of items that they need to move. By simplifying your move through discarding a significant amount of items you will likely be able to cut down on the moving bill significantly. This should provide significant savings for you over time and can assist you in reducing your work in unpacking items and setting them up in your new home.
Consider What’s Important:
Most people accumulate tons of junk over time. Many times these items seem just too precious throw away from the start but over time you see how worthless these items are. Junk piles on top of junk and you are likely left with a big headache. Go through your apartment and segregate all of those items that you feel as if you must absolutely hold onto. Treat all the remaining items as junk.
Sell or Dispose of What’s Left:
With this junk you have to decide whether you can resell it or if you should just discard it. While it may seem like a lot of work to sell items, it often is not that difficult. If you have lots of old books lying around you can visit a bookstore and see if they will buy them from you. If so, you just removed a good amount of your cleanup costs and made a bit of money on the side.
For larger items such as furniture, post on a listing board and see if anyone is willing to purchase these items. If not, then see if they will haul it out of your home for free. Many individuals are willing to pick up free furniture and other items and this can remove a lot of your headaches associated with cleaning before a move. This is a great way to get rid of large items without incurring moving costs.
If you cannot sell something consider donating it to charity. You will likely receive a significant charitable donation deduction in return. You may also feel good about yourself, despite your laziness.
Throw Away the Rest:
For items that you cannot donate or resell, just throw them away and be done with it. Put it all in a large garbage bag and throw it away. You should be left with a pretty barren house after this and now is the time to use the money that you accumulated from the sale of your goods or the charitable donations to hire a professional home cleaner or maid service.
Why is it important to hire a maid service when there are no large items left to dispose? This is due to the time consuming nature of cleaning the remainder of your home. Think about the time and effort needed to wipe the countertops, clean the fridge, clean the grime out of the shower, and even to remove the rust and grease from the top of the stove.
All of this is much easier to accomplish with a professional maid service who have the tools and cleaning chemicals to wipe your home clean. And if you are moving out of an apartment, consider contacting your landlord to see if they can recommend any cleaning services. Often times they have experience with different cleaning companies and can recommend one that they are pleased with. The added benefit is that if you tell them you used this service, they may be less likely to use your rent security deposit to hire their own cleaning service.
Summary:
Cleaning out your home is a time consuming and annoying process. Simplify it and make it much easier for yourself by only keeping those items that are essential to your life. Put those items aside and sell or donate whatever else you can. For the remaining items, simply throw them away. From the proceeds you earned through your sale or donation, hire a professional home cleaner to take care of the little details. Then sit back and relax. Your earned it!
