I would also add removing old,broken,warn out,or enormous furniture that is clearly unattractive and makes the living room and bedrooms appear smaller and less comfortable than they really are.The house should be staged with modern and appropriate furniture to show buyers what they're new furniture will look like in their new home.Excess clothing that is not normally worn should removed from overstuffed closets and dressers and donated to charity,thrown away,or boxed up and stored off site from the home.If your toilets are old or have unremovable stains that look terrible,replace the entire toilet.Bathtubs should be reglazed to look shiny and new again.

How much of my stuff am I going to have to move out of my house (should I clean out every closet and dresser, move the kids toys into the basement)?

The contents inside the home were eerily untouched - food in the fridge (gross), clothes in the dressers, furniture, end tables, tools in the workshop, toys, shoes, etc.It took me and another guy a week to catalog everything and donate it all in the hopes I could perhaps write it off.  

I furnished some with craigslisted twin beds and dressers (roughly $300), so my walls wouldn't get banged up on move in/out.

Google "toddler killed by dresser" and you will find dozens of stories.Tenants sometimes worry about installing things like the tip-kits, if they have a landlord who has really emphasized things like not marring the walls.  

(Think about them falling down, hitting their head on a corner dresser, and needing stitches.

Made for a twin bed and a dresser, might take a full bed but would feel tight.The question:  Will it be hard to rent with the small bedrooms?

If they receive cash (bartenders, hair dressers, etc.), then I ask for last year’s tax returns.References: Ask for references other than family (call at least three references).

They also had a couole dressers & urine covered bed.

Dresser or chest of drawers, and a night stand.