TIP #1 Find the problem areas. You'll know them when you start to look for them. The piles of newspapers or magazines, the bench tops that attract little bits of disparate nothing, all the dust-covered heaps of household orphans... TIP #2 Do the thing you loathe most...

Obviously, I'm biased on this one – I want you to be my client! But I'll try to have an objective go at explaining the arguments for and against working with a real estate agent to sell your home. I won't beat around the bush – real estate is big business. Real estate...