Brugge Blog

I’m ready to admit that selling your house is an exercise in madness, but when I opened Robert Irwin’s Tips and Traps When Selling A Home to the chapter “14 Days to Shaping Up Your House for Sale”, I had to double check that I hadn’t picked up Dave Barry’s Homes and Other Black Holes instead.

Here is the two week plan that Irwin feels that “anyone should be able to handle”:

• Day 1: Trim the Hedges
• Day 2: Paint the Front
• Day 3: Paint the Trim
• Day 4: Mow the Lawn, Clean the Driveway, Polish the Brass
• Day 5: Evaluate and Remove Furniture
• Day 6: Paint the Kitchen
• Day 7: Clean or Replace the Kitchen Floor
• Day 8: Paint the Guest Bathroom
• Day 9: Paint the Master Bathroom
• Day 10: Pain (or Clean) the Entry and the Living Area
• Day 11: Paint (or Clean) the Bedrooms
• Day 12: Wash the Windows, Clean the Lights
• Day 13: Clean, Trim, Mow, and Plant Flowers in the Backyard
• Day 14: Have the Carpet Cleaned (or Replaced)

If the rest of the book wasn’t so serious, I would really suspect that this guy was a comic genius. It certainly adds some lightness to an otherwise grinding process.