It is no secret that staging can raise the value of a home—in fact, it can boost a sale price by as much as 10 percent. The best staged homes—the ones that garner the full 10—strike the balance ...

Staging a house isn’t just making it look clean and neat—it’s about manipulating folks to see themselves in the space. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

Greg Williams would argue that it takes a lot more to sell a house than hiring a real estate agent, putting away the clutter and sticking a sign in the yard. Other things can be done in certain rooms ...

A staged home is not real. You know it, I know it, the buyer knows it. When you walk into a bedroom with a throw placed artfully over the bedspread, topped with a tray holding teacups and cookies, you ...

Betsy began her career in international finance and it has since grown into a comprehensive approach to journalism as she's been able to tap into that experience along with her time spent in academia ...

When your house is beginning to look a lot like Christmas, or more like a holiday hoarder's idea of paradise, you might want to tame your menagerie of holiday decor. While many people do minimal ...

We live in a time of change. Nowhere is this more apparent than in real estate. Many people are waving goodbye to the house they have lived in for years. They are moving on. They are moving to a ...

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