8 Tips for Low Cost Staging In a tough sales market, staging can help move a property. Barb Schwarz, who claims to have invented home staging in the early 1970s, estimates that about one in four homes nationwide are now staged. Julie Dana and Marcia Layton Turn state in their book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Staging Your Home to Sell, that a seller stands to gain as much as $9,000 on a $200,000 house if it's staged. Shelly Wagner, a Detroit-based stager, estimates that the cost per room for staging is $100 – … (2 comments)
Make Some Money With Your House For owners of vacation homes or properties in tourist-friendly areas, here's a money-making tip. If there's a major sporting event or arts festival in their town, make some extra money by renting your primary or vacation home to tourists and moving elsewhere for a couple of weeks. If you rent your home for 14 days or less in a given year, you don't have to pay any tax on the rental income, says Bob Scharin, senior tax analyst for Thomson Reuters. You don't even have to report the income to … (0 comments)
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