There is a reason Real Estate Agents call a house a home when talking to buyers and a home a house when talking to sellers...

The CEO of Unique Real Estate Solutions says that:

They are buying your house and nothing more. The memories are still yours.

The sooner you can divest yourself from your home and focus on selling your house the quicker you will be able to get it sold.

It's not an easy process, it's okay to have a hard time with it! But eventually the home needs to become a house and be seen as a product to be marketed and sold. There is an exciting and beautiful future ahead of you!

There is a enormous amount of information on how to prepare your house for selling. We want to help you sift through it and find what type of house preparation you can invest in to sell your house faster and for more money.

We'll break home preparation into two steps:

• Repairing - how to prepare a house, inexpensively, to sell for a higher price.
• Staging - how to stage your house to sell faster and for more money.

About.com has an article entitled "How to Sell Your House for the Most Money" this links to a huge amount of information on preparing your house for sale, including an article specifically on staging.

To find which repairs will add the most value to your house just look below

   Staging is all about creating an atmosphere, or as we like to put it, draw out the beauty in a house.

Staging your house is about looking through the buyers eyes.
You want them saying:
"Wow! this is right where we would put..."
"This is the perfect spot for..."

    The first, cheapest and most important step to doing this is to clean out! Whether it is throwing away, giving away, selling or moving to storage, open up your house by getting rid of all the clutter. Simple is beautiful and simple opens up a room, simple allows a person to imagine what could be there instead of what is there.

   Brighten up the house! Make sure to open windows and turn on lights when a buyer comes to look at the house. Think bright, cheerful, a place that they want to spend their time!

   Remove all of your personal items! You want people to be able to picture themselves living there.

   Need some staging ideas? Head over to Starbucks, or any cafe that is designed to make people feel comfortable and want to stay for another cup of coffee.

   If opening up space and creating an open, bright atmosphere isn't something for you then you always can higher a professional at home staging.

For more information on staging your house REALTOR.org has put together a quite exhaustive list of home preparation and staging articles.

This is a great resource by Home Gain:

       The home sale maximizer calculator

Here are some examples from it:

Let there be light! Replace burnt out lights, get higher wattage, better color spectrum... keep the blinds and curtains open and all the lights on when showing the house. -- Recommended on many different sites and has a 939% return on investment!

Clean up and get the clutter out! Rent a storage space and move everything that doesn't have to be there out! Think clean, bright, simple... think 758% return on investment!

Staging... 284% return on investment!

Cost vs. Value report by RemodelingOnline

Also see WikiHow's "How to Inexpensively Increase the Value of Your Home"