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Earlier this month I showed a property to a couple in one of our older, yet nice, neighborhoods. Unfortunately, both the garage and the interior looked like this:

I don't like showing properties that are a mess like this one was, and my Clients didn't like it either. I took just this one picture and we left.

The next day, there was an article in the paper about a fire in a house that was started by clothes on a lamp. The house was in the neighborhood and very close to the intersection where we had been, but I don't know if it was the house we looked at. The paper said the fire was contained in a bedroom, and while I went by to look at the house we had been to, either the fire was not at that house or the fire damage was not visible from the street.

Nonetheless, it serves as yet another warning that houses that are a mess are a danger to both occupants and visitors.

Also make sure that your home has smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms installed. Please.

Clean up your house, especially if you're trying to sell it!

Some of Jim's blog posts

1. Is Active Rain trying to tell me something, or am I just weird?
2. Make every Friday "Backup Friday"
3. STOP THE INSANITY!
4. If you can't get to it, you can't tell how old it is
5. Your digital camera can do so much more than just take pictures
6. It's hard to believe Zoey's already been here a year
7. It's hard to believe Sophie's been gone a year
8. Is THAT the house?
9. Don't trust, do verify
10. The benefits of staging, even minimalist staging
11. Please help me identify this type of architecture. Craftsman? Victorian? Modern?
12. Southern California fire season is just around the corner
13. Welcome to my home
14. If you could easily get rid of your child, would you?
15. Wow! Nice underwear
16. There obviously is no financial crisis if Zoey has been pre-approved for a $5,000 credit card
17. Getting to cold contacts. It's all in the approach
18. Is there trash in your trash can?
19. Private, gated, fenced, coded subdivisions
20. What's in a name?
21. Location, location, location? Ha! Views, views, views
22. Oh give me a home, where the buffalo roam
23. Did you put that on the disclosure form? "I didn't think I needed to."
24. If you needed to hide from someone, could you do it in today's world?
25. A home is like a child
26. Should I stay or should I go now. Remodel or move?
27. Water, water everywhere, or is it?
28. Always on the lookout....
29. Are you prepared for an emergency?
30. Four secrets to getting and keeping online customers
31. Holding an open house with fleas
32. Tuesday laugh session with the "treadmill kitty cats"