If you are like most people selling your home in a seller’s market, where there are few houses for sale and lots of buyers, you would think spending money on home staging is a dumb idea. After all, why spend money on staging when you can reasonably expect it will sell quickly. Why spend money… Continue reading A Seller’s Market is the Perfect Time to Spend Money on Home Staging
Category: Reasons to try Home Staging
FAQs for Realtors on Home Staging
FAQs for Realtors on Home Staging – What you need to know about cost, time, value, and how home staging leads to more listings. Most Realtors have heard of home staging and how it can help sell a home faster and for more money but many Realtors still have questions. Here are answers to some… Continue reading FAQs for Realtors on Home Staging
FAQs for Home Sellers on Home Staging
What you need to know about cost, time, value, and how home staging leads to a faster sale. What is Home Staging? What is home staging? Home Staging is a marketing tool that uses decorating to show off a home’s best features while downplaying its flaws. Done right, staging creates an emotional connection between home… Continue reading FAQs for Home Sellers on Home Staging
Ready to Sell: How to Get and Keep Your Home Clean
Selling your home is no easy feat. But before you can juggle offers, nail negotiations, and work on closing, you have to get your home ready for the market. Staging your house is one of the most important parts of the sales process. By making sure your property is at its best for a photoshoot,… Continue reading Ready to Sell: How to Get and Keep Your Home Clean
Lose Weight, Quit Smoking, Get Healthy and Peaceful Without Pain
How are you feeling about yourself? How are you feeling about yourself? Photo by Taylor Smith on Unsplash Do you like the way you look? Are you healthy and happy? Do you feel peaceful, abundant and grateful for all you have? Do you love the way you start each day? Why do so many of… Continue reading Lose Weight, Quit Smoking, Get Healthy and Peaceful Without Pain
Home Staging- How it Works, What it Costs
Home staging is the art of decorating a home to sell fast and for top dollar. It works by highlighting the home’s best features and creating an atmosphere that buyers make an emotional connection with, so they can visualize themselves living there. Each year statistics come out that talk about things like staged homes sell… Continue reading Home Staging- How it Works, What it Costs
Bad Home Staging is like going on a first date to the drive in for dinner
In a recent article, Staging a Vacant Home- Why It’s Worth the Money by Anna Martens in Alaska Home Magazine, some of my work and tips were featured on the importance of staging a vacant home. Some of the key take-aways from the article were: In today’s market, where home sellers need to make their… Continue reading Bad Home Staging is like going on a first date to the drive in for dinner
How to Flip a House and Make a Profit
Have you dreamed how to flip a house and make a profit? The first step is buying a great property with good potential to make a return on your investment. Then it is important to invest wisely in your repairs and upgrades. Finally, prepare the home for sale by having it professionally staged, create great… Continue reading How to Flip a House and Make a Profit
Dear Real Estate Agent, Don’t be Scared
When it comes to home staging, you may be scared it will cost too much, you will offend your client by recommending it and possibly lose the listing. You may be worried it will take too long and you want to get the home listed as soon as possible. You also may be scared to… Continue reading Dear Real Estate Agent, Don’t be Scared
Selling Your Fixer-Upper: Tips to Sell Fast and For More
In a recent article, Buying a Fixer-Upper: Tips for First-Time Home buyers by guest blogger Ray Flynn of the DIYGuys, we learned how to manage the buying process for a “fixer upper”, where to buy, setting a budget, what repair or design projects to tackle first, and creating curb appeal. We considered whether to stay or… Continue reading Selling Your Fixer-Upper: Tips to Sell Fast and For More