Home Owner Tip: Spring cleaning helps your home maintain it's value!

If you're like me then winter helped you rack up a few too many to-do items around the house. Here are some tips and reminders to help you motivate and make the most of your spring cleaning.

• Serious top-to-bottom, take-no-dust-bunny-prisoners, company is coming style cleaning, helps you turn back the clock on the look and feel of your home. It also helps it maintain value!
• Tackle the every once in a while items that aren't on your regular cleaning schedule: washing/vacuuming the drapes, de-bugging light fixtures, polishing hardware (door hinges, cabinet knobs etc.), replacing grungy switch plates,replacing or repairing peeling or sagging weather stripping, and changing out old stove-top drip pans. 
• Change the direction of ceiling fan blades to help cool warmer rooms and reduce your summer energy bills. 
• De-clutter if you want to. If the items in your home make you happy and you don't feel overwhelmed by them, then clutter is not an issue! If they are driving you up the wall, or making you feel sad then it's time to tackle your stuff.