You don't have much time. Potential buyers form an opinion about the home in 15 seconds, by most estimates. And the clock starts ticking at the curb. So how do you tilt the playing field in your favor? Increasingly, it's by professionally staging your home.

Generally speaking, staging means; making your home as appealing as possible, as quickly as possible for as little as possible, to the broadest clientele possible.

"In this market, staging is urgently needed, because it's so competitive with buyers having countless options," says Jeffrey Johnson, Co-owner of Home Staging Design Pros. 

There are many reasons to stage a home some of them obvious, and some not so.