When selling a hoarder’s house, these steps will be necessary to get the fair market value. Without addressing these issues, a hoarder’s property will sell for a fraction of what it should. The average cost to clean a hoarder’s house can be as high as two dollars per square foot. ...
Guests at Coldbackie have also asked for an outdoor washing line, so I have a rotary line and pegs ready to go out there, along with a brass fireguard to go over the empty fireplace in the living room, which I bought at the local auction house for £4.50 – they usually go for ...
Is your home starting to look like an indoor yard sale? I recently purchased a beautiful original watercolor painting of the Rosebud Diner in Davis Square. It cost me just $12 dollars but the point is that it was the last thing I needed to buy. My house is like a museum already. In ...
This past summer, on a flying trip South, Dean and Ted and I and another good friend named Cowboy completed the final clear-out of the old house, and now Cowboy—formerly homeless—has a place to live and a task ahead: to renovate the place and prepare it for rental or sale, whatev...