Parade Magazine Article - How to Make Your Home Sell Faster

Clink on this link to see the May 8, 2007 article in the Sunday "Parade Magazine" titled "Where America Lives - How To Make Your Home Sell Faster".

http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2007/edition_05-06-2007/10_Tips

This article can help do-it-yourselfers save some money. As a professional stager, many of the things on the "To Do" list I would give sellers after a staging consultation are discussed in this article. If you can cover this list yourself, you can then hire a stager for her unique skills in drawing the potential buyer's attention to the features of your home while distracting them from the defects.

A professional stager will know how to use "the power of placement" to "balance" your rooms and make your home pleasing to the eye. Stagers are also experts at placing furniture in those too-small, too-large, or shape-challenged rooms. It is better to solve the problem of "What would we do with THIS room?" before they even ask it. Otherwise the path of least resistance is to move on to the next house on the list -- you know the competition down the street at the same price that does not have that challenge...