The preparations involved in selling a home are never a joke. You will be required to invest a huge amount of energy, time, and effort. However, no matter how stressful it is, if you have successfully sold your house, you should not neglect the need to clean it just before you leave.    Actually, leaving the house clean is often times a part of the legal obligations of the house sellers to the house buyers.  Some contracts indicate that the house should be thoroughly clean just before the house buyer moves in. However, in times that it is not cited in the contract, house sellers should still perform it as a form of courtesy.   So now, after you sold your house, you should already start to take out your furniture from your house, clean out the spaces inside from the attic to the basement, you should also remove your furniture in your lawn. Other things you need to perform before you leave is to dry clean the carpets inside, mop the kitchen and bathroom floors, clean the sink and counters, replace the light bulbs, sweep the garage area, change the locks and turn over the keys to your buyer, and mow your lawns. You may also decide to get the service of professional cleaners if you have no time to clean out your place.