Sellers … put your “fancy pants” on.

Teri Lussier, a popular Dayton blogger, tweeted today that buyers were out shopping and that it was time for sellers to put their “fancy pants” on. That really tickled my funny bone.

Or could be that I’m just getting punchy.

Now, we could talk about your OUTSIDE pants or your INSIDE pants … but maybe that’s not going in the right direction. Not all analogies work quite the way we think they will, do they! I’ll be careful.

Your OUTSIDE pants need the lint removed:

• Prune back overgrown landscaping
• Cut off the ornamental grasses and dead perennials
• Rake the neighbor’s leaves that blew into your yard (why don’t they ever keep going into the next neighbor’s lawn?)
• Pick up all the shingles that blew off the neighbor’s roof into your yard during all the winds we had.
• Winter doggie-do has got to go. There’s no 8″ of snow now so that’s no longer an excuse.
• Don’t mulch yet until the ground is warm.
• Once the “lint” is cleaned from the lawn, you can apply the first feeding of lawn fertilizer.
• Watch the weather forecast, but as soon as possible, put a container of pansies near the front door. (they can take some cold weather).
• Hang a springy-type wreath on the front door. (gee, maybe I should remove the one from Thanksgiving!)
• Fill the bird feeders so buyers are greeted with the special songs bird sing in the spring.

Your INSIDE pants need …

Uh-h-h … here’s where it gets tricky. Maybe I should just say they need to be really, really clean … dare I say SPOTLESS!

Ok, I’ll stop now.

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