I can tell if you’re getting a divorce

• You’ve removed “half” the furniture in the family room and the dents in the carpet show where the “other half” of the furniture used to be. The carpet may be soiled as well, indicating traffic patterns around the missing furniture. Solution: Have the carpet cleaned and rearrange the remaining furniture.
• The walk-in closet in the owner’s suite is the major give-away. People tend to hang their clothes as they did before, leaving half the closet empty. The half that does have clothes hanging there is all female or all male clothes. Solution: Hey, you’ve got the whole closet to yourself now. Take advantage of that to spread everything around. Enjoy!
• Similar to the walk-in closet, the same thing can be seen in the owner’s bath. Perfumes or after shave are the usual items sitting on top of the vanity. Often there’s a complete empty shelf in the linen closet. Solution: Same as the closet … spread everything out and around so it looks like it’s always been that way.
• If mom and the kids moved out, often the kids’ rooms are bare-bones leaving only a bed for the kids to sleep on during their weekends with dad. Or worse yet, there’s an inflatable bed for the kiddies’ stay. AND there’s no kid clothes in the closet. Solution: Agree to keep more of the furniture until the home is sold. You might also put some of the out-grown clothes in the closet. Agents and buyers won’t know that the clothes no longer fit the kids.

And DAD, if you’re the one staying in the home until it sells … throw away the empty pizza boxes … fill  the fridge with something other than beer and cold cuts … put the toilet lid down … and PULEEZE use the covered laundry basket!

Help your negotiation power by taking steps to not advertise the fact that you’re getting a divorce and might be “desparate” to sell.
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