[WalterBright]

> you'll get much less for your house without cleaning it, because human emotions

It's not because of emotions. It's because it correlates with other neglect that may be less obvious.

A good real estate agent has a rolodex of various contractors that can fix up a house to ready it for sale.

[svachalek]

Cleaning the house doesn't retroactively fix the neglect though. It just makes the house look cared for to the lizard brain.