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How to avoid a bidding war? Avoid beautifully staged homes! Part 2.
This is a story of some favorite buyers who finally went under contract last weekend.  
We met at an Open House last August when they were just beginning their search.  And they were looking for the first time buyer cliche - under $400,000, detached house, room for a garden and studio, and within a mile of Metro.  
In this part of the market, the thinventory is pretty anorexic!  But I can almost always find something that works in Silver Spring, Maryland - a close-in suburb of DC.  
Once they got serious, I noticed that they were responding only to homes that had great photos, great staging, and great curb appeal.  And in most cases, the listing agents were holding off contract presentations for up to a week.  This was to give everyone a fair chance to get pre-inspections.  
We visited one house, and they got really excited.  But as we walked through, I realized that it wasn't the house at all, but the staging that had a real wow factor.  
The kitchen had a beautiful hanging pot rack with AllClad dangling from the hooks. There was a Le Cruset on top of the stove waiting for Julia Childs to fill it with ... more

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