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Home Staging Information-Myth or Fact? Part II With all the information out there, it can be hard to tell what's true and what's not. Last week I wrote the blog post Home Staging Information-Myth or Fact? Part I. Because I hear what people think about home stagers and what we do all the time, I ...

Home Staging Information - Myth or Fact? Part I   It seems today that there is a lot of information out there in the world. It comes from different kinds of sources like word of mouth, TV and the internet. Sometimes it's hard to tell what's true and what's false. We all know not everything on the...

Who Pays for a Home Staging Consultation? So you've decided to put your Montgomery County PA home on the market. You've done your research and found yourself the perfect real estate agent. When he/she comes by to look at your property, they make the suggestion of hiring a professional Montgomery...

Objections to Home Staging Advice As a Montgomery County PA home stager, I talk to a lot of home sellers.  Some sellers I talk to before they put their house on the market and some I talk to after they've been on the market. But no matter who I talk to, there always seems to be some push back ab...

Home Staging Advice that Google Can't Provide We live in a world of technology. Information is at the tip of our fingers with laptops, smart phones and tablets. Anyone can look up anything on the internet. You can Google "how to make pineapple upside down cake" "How do you curl your hair" or "ho...

Should I Hire a Home Stager Before I Put My House on the Market? Selling a home is not a simple process. From a real estate agent's point of view there are pictures to take, listings to upload and marketing to be done. Lots of marketing. From a home owners point of view, you just have to provide...

Do Staged Homes Sell Faster? When you put your Montgomery County PA home on the market, you hope for a quick sale. Rarely do you want your home on the market for months and months. When your DOM (Days On the Market) increases, buyers start to think something is wrong with your home, prompting th...

What Does Home Staging Do? Home staging is an important part of selling your Montgomery County PA home. It's a part of the strategy that gets your home sold. Real estate agents and home stagers recommend it because we know more buyers will like a staged home over an "as is" home. But why? What d...

Home Staging Prevents Two of the Top Six Biggest Home Seller MistakesWhen you decide to put your Montgomery County, PA home on the market, it's important that you listen to the professionals who sell homes for a living. They do this day in, day out and they know the mistakes that sellers have mad...

Inexpensive Alternative to Buying a Fire PitEveryone loves an outdoor patio. With the right seating, you can essentially create an outdoor living room. Unfortunately, we don't use our patios too much during the winter months because, well, it's cold outside. There's nothing like trying to carry o...