 What you need is an actual expert here. You need a real estate agent that you can trust, an agent that is going to know the people he or she trusts do all those things. They know someone who is going to do it right the first time, and they know whether you should do it or not. I have a relative who wants to be thinking about selling a house. I just can't. I have too many things to do in this house. We just keep saying to her,