Our house is on the market at the moment. Our advice was to sell the lifestyle. So in our case it was keeping the gardens lush, put music on when people are inspecting, put champers and chocolates next to the spa, a cuppa and muffins or fruit on the coffee table where we sit and look out to the mountain. Turn lights on, open the doors onto the deck, keep the lawn mowed at all times for people driving past. Put flowers on the dinning table and fill the fruit bowl up. You want people to walk in and feel like they want to live there. Things like hooks on walls are not that important but a clean house is a must. Make sure the house smells nice! It would be a big call for me to buy a house that had a dog living there, even an out side dog manages to spread 'dog' smell inside and to a non pet owner the stench is horrible! If pets do live there everything needs to be spotless. De cluttering is also important, if your house has too much stuff then it looks messy and if the cupboards are too full it looks like the house doesn't have enough room. On the veg garden question, we have a patch ready to plant and all the agents who looked suggested to plant it as it's a huge selling point. But we are too lazy and are now growing grass there as we'd rather ds have the extra space in the back yard.