Can home staging help me in a cooling real estate market?
CNN Money did a story on 5 strategies homeowners can use to get top dollar in a slower real estate market. Home staging was the top strategy and here is why: Basically, the slower the market, the harder you have to work to get a competitive edge over the other similar houses for sale. Take the weekend and check out all the houses for sale in your neighborhood and decide how yours will stack up against them. Don’t you owe it to yourself to do what you can to blow away the competition? Wouldn’t it be great to get a bidding war going because your home looks so much better than everything else in your price range?Q: I can clean and declutter; why do I need a home stager? A: It’s incredibly difficult to view your own home with the eyes of a highly critical buyer. A professional home stager can objectively assess how best to use what you already have and determine if anything else needs to be added or taken away. You’re emotionally involved in your home and the contents, so it’s hard to be c
