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Home Staging 101
When you put your home up for sale, it becomes a product.  There are many other products similar to yours that also are for sale.  You want your home to stand out from the competition.  You only have about 30 seconds to make a lasting impression when that buyer walks through your front door.
What will that buyer see?  Toys?  Pets?  Furniture ready to be hauled for donation?  Collections galore?  Or cold, empty, echoing rooms?
What will the buyer smell?  The diaper pail?  Kitty's box?  Cigarette smoke?  The fish you fried for lunch?  A stuffy, empty house?
All these things - and more - turn buyers off.
Granted, having your home on the market is a huge inconvenience.  But wouldn't you rather make a fast sale and get the whole production over with instead of dragging it out?
That's exactly what selling a home is - a production.  Your house is a product.  It is on stage for the audience to examine.  A seller has control over two factors - the list price, and how their home looks.  If your home is priced right and looks right, it will sell.  Ok, so how do you get it looking "right?"
You must hire a professional - and I don't mean the friend of the lady ... more

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