1. Keep up your Christmas Lights up -might as well make it all year!

2. Don’t make the beds, wipe the counters or clean the bathroom – just leave your personal items all over – while you are at it, leave the toothpaste spit in the sink.

3. Have your “cute little dog” there so he can bark at everyone as they come to show the house.

4. Work with your out-of-area cousin who just happens to have a real estate license.

5. Keep all the lights off and close all the blinds so the house feels like a cave.

6. Don’t let anyone over when the real estate agent calls for an appointment.  Never show the house to anyone!

7. Keep your robe on and stay in the house while the buyers are there looking – leave your feet up on the coffee table too.

8. Make fish in a wok that day and don’t clean up before the buyers get there. 

9. Over price the property – see what your neighbor’s house sold for an go at least 10% higher.

10. Don’t by any means advertise the house with digital photographs on the internet.  Let them wait til they get there to see what the place looks and smells like!