It's very cluttered, and the purple carpet reminds of a church alter color (but it is very pretty).I did a quick mockup of a less cluttered room, and used Shaw brown colored pet resistant carpet.I put a mushroom colored sofa at one end and an Avocado green and rust chair at the other end.I also put in a minibar and two small (vs one big) log burners (for winter and fall).it might also be nice to have some kind of sound system in the ceiling that can hitch onto your cell phone and play your music from your phone.If you notice rather than paint a wall, I simply used a drapery to color it from end to end.Here I used a muddy looking mustard color with some checkers on it.I also toned down the white window trim to deep brown color, and put some sheers inside to make the house feel bigger.You could also use knotty pine wainscoting in some areas to break up the horizontal-ness of it.

Hey @Erich Beyer I think it's unlikely that a pest controller is going to be able to fully address your bed bug problem unless the tenant makes a significant effort to remove clutter from the unit.  

Josh had another idea on that where you can leave a note on your dashboard for stuff like that, but I imagine it could lead to cluttering the dashboard to have lots of blog posts you want to refer to.

This question is a simple way to cut through the clutter of justification and stay true to your criteria and your standards. 

Her unit was very cluttered, but not horrible, when I saw it during the initial walk through and inspection that followed.

She says she loves cleaning our house because there is no clutter like a primary residence.We put in new super capacity washer and dryer as doing the laundry is the biggest bottleneck and she does all this on site and remakes all the beds.

More plumbing problems - some because of the age of the system and some because of how the tenants use the system, but mostly a combination of both.Tenants not taking pride in their home and not keeping the place clean and clutter free.Tenants living paycheck to paycheck, sometimes pay rent late.Hard to get a sufficient security deposit at move-in that will be enough to cover the tenant damages found at move-out.

We've hired lots of new agents over the years and I strongly feel that its our responsibility to make sure our agents have all the information and knowledge they need to market and sell a property.To answer your question, in my opinion good marketing starts by working with the seller to make sure their property looks as good as possible (de-cluttering, minor repairs, fresh paint, staging.)  

I think it is hard to cut through the clutter to find the true gems. 8)

After 40 years it was way to cluttered to sell, plus 4 adults and grandkids in a 3 bedroom 1 bath house, 900 square feet, it was fully packed.So, long story, but a problem with long term tenants is they don't always leave willingly, even with months of notice.