Sue, hope everything goes well. Our house closed in May. But we sold it empty, we'd been out for over 2 months. So we had the luxury of cleaning it up a bit (new carpets, light fixtures, paint). Then we had it staged--in our case that included renting furniture, but in your case it would be de-cluttering mostly, and probably rearranging the furniture. It really paid off, we got considerably over asking (our market is healthy still.) And we used an agent, a wonderful guy--we sold in 6 days.
