If an organizer can travel to your home in 15 minutes or less, you can get one of our organizers for as little as two or three hours. Generally, we prefer 5-hour sessions due to longer travel, so this is a great option for people who need help with smaller projects. Examples would include preparing for guests, clearing a junk room, reorganizing a closet, a nursery, or a kitchen pantry, or just getting started and motivated to do something bigger. Rates are hourly (see pricing) and this can be a good solution for those with a lower budget or for those interested in buying a gift certificate for a friend or loved one.

Whether you're Downsizing to move, or just need to DeClutter your home, your purge pal is here as a shoulder to lean on through the tough decisions. We may “push” but we will never “shove. In the end, all final decisions are yours. As added support, we will assist in every way possible to get that clutter out of your house, while making it an enjoyable experience.

If you're feeling overwhelmed & frustrated with years of accumulated clutter and lack of organization in your home, we will help you gain control and kick start your journey into a more organized and peaceful life. We can and have organized every space imaginable. Closets, garages, bedrooms, kitchens, basements, home offices, craft rooms, toy rooms, and more. No space is off the table for our organizers. We can organize one or more or all the spaces in your home. Our solutions will enhance your home and life with practical, and easy to maintain systems.

Home Staging is a proven tactic used by realtors to speed up the sale of a home and generally pays for itself by increasing the sale profit. It helps to show off the best features in the home that can draw in a potential buyer by letting them visualize themselves living in their new home. It usually requires decluttering and depersonalizing by packing and storing personal items like pictures and collectibles, and maximizing spaces by rearranging furniture. If necessary, home repairs and/or updates, like a simple coat of paint, can be arranged.

We offer a Realtor Referral Discount that applies to both the realtor and to any clients they refer to us. The discount is 10% off hourly rates and 5% off package rates. These discounts are applied to any decluttering and organizing services.

Another option is to hire us for a Home Staging Consultation / Assessment Report.  We provide the homeowner and/or real estate agent by e-mail with a detailed report that lists recommended changes to every room of the seller’s home. The final report is used to help prioritize and budget any improvements for staging purposes. Our current fee for the time needed to assess the home and prepare the report is $295 (discounts do not apply.)

The Home Staging Consultation / Assessment Report includes the following: 

• Personal items and clutter to be removed.
• Suggested furniture rearrangement.
• Recommended adjustments to art and accessories.
• Recommended changes in paint colors.
• Other recommended household updates or repairs.
• Recommended purchases of new fixtures, furniture, or accessories needed to help showcase the home to its full potential.

Realtors sometimes pay for one of these services if they expect to receive a commission that will more than cover the cost.  There could be up to a 10% increase of selling value in staged homes according to a survey in a January 2015 news release from the National Association of Realtors. Taking the extra step to stage a home can make a difference in how a buyer values it and the price a seller might get for it.

Additional costs beyond the Home Staging Consultation / Assessment Report •

• We follow up by offering our decluttering and organizing services separately. Whether it’s the realtor or the client paying for the additional services, the “realtor referral discount” applies toward that work (10% off hourly, or 5% off packages.)
• Third party hires to complete contractor work like updates and repairs, painting, neglected home maintenance, landscaping, etc.
• Purchases or rental costs for new fixtures, furniture, or accessories.

Homeowner Benefits:

• Less stress and overwhelm to declutter or stage themselves.
• Assistance in delivering donations and hauling off large debris (may cost extra.)
• Decluttering and organizing their things will decrease moving costs (fewer boxes equals less weight.)
• Staging includes organizing, resulting in a simplified packing/unpacking process.

Realtor Benefits:

• Increase profits/commissions.
• Save time and energy from staging themselves.
• Validation to the client of the importance of decluttering and staging.
• Reputation to homeowners / Potential referrals.
• Providing staging as a standard service in certain areas, or at higher price levels, will increase profits and commissions several times over by giving you the maximum ROI.

Staging can be confined to specific rooms or all spaces

• When living spaces are ok, we would concentrate on storage spaces like closets, basements, garages, and attics.
• Priority rooms include Living Room and Kitchen.
• Second priority rooms include Master Bedroom, Dining Room, and Bathrooms.
• Additional spaces require more time and resources but can have a bigger payoff.

Staging Occupied Homes:

• Accomplished prior to move out date.
• Declutter all flat surfaces or busy spaces.
• Removal of any discarded or donated items.
• Early packing of personal items stored in discreet areas or offsite.
• Organize essentials for day-to-day living in aesthetically pleasing way.
• Rearrange furnishings to a magazine worthy design.

Staging Vacant Homes: (Due to lack of resources and manpower, Organize My Clutter currently does not stage vacant homes.)

• Vacant Homes take twice as long to sell.
• Difficult for a buyer to connect emotionally or imagine their own belongings in the spaces.
• Defects in the home stand out more.
• Buyers spend less time touring the home.
• Online photos give a vague visual sense of size and potential.
• Requires rental of furniture, art, and accessories.

According to a January 2015 news release from the National Association of Realtors, taking the extra step to stage a home can make a difference in how a buyer values it and the price a seller might get for it. (credit: https://www.nar.realtor/news-releases/2015/01/home-staging-can-help-sell-home-for-more-realtors-say)

• 96% of surveyed Realtors® who work with buyers believe there is a positive effect on the buyer’s view of the home.
• 49% of surveyed Realtors® who work with buyers believe staging usually influences the buyer’s view of the home.
• Another 47% believe that staging only sometimes has an impact on a buyer’s view of the home only.
• 62% of Realtors® representing sellers say they offer home staging service to sellers.
• 39% say the seller pays before listing the home.
• Up to a 10% increase of value in staged homes according to survey.
• Buyers most often offer a 1 to 5 percent increase on the value of a staged home according to 37% of selling Realtors® and 32% of buying Realtors®.
• The increase is closer to 6 to 10 percent according to 22% of selling Realtors® and 16% of buying Realtors®.

We can unpack your items after a move and organize all your belongings in your new home to save you tons of time and energy so you can concentrate on getting back into a normal routine.

Whether you're self-employed, run a business from home, or work in a traditional office setting, we can assist your company by creating and implementing practical organizational systems and storage solutions for your files, inventory, or supplies. We can also help improve the workflow, productivity, and efficiency with new streamlined solutions anyone can easily adapt to.