What is Home Staging? Home Staging is the art and skill of preparing a house to sell. Home Staging by an experienced professional enhances your home to its full potential by showcasing the home's best features while minimizing/eliminating the negatives. Most potential homebuyers form an opinion about a house within 20 seconds! Once that opinion is made, whether good or bad, very rarely can that view be changed. Positively differentiating your home from others on the market can give you added benefits as noted below. The Ten Top Benefits of Home Staging: 1. Staged homes sell in half the time as non-staged homes! (Caldwell Banker Real Estate Corp. survey). Also, the longer your house is on the market, the less money you will be offered so stage before you put your house up for sale. 2. Your house will typically sell up to 6% above the selling price! (Caldwell Banker R.E. Corp.survey) 3. 343% return on your investment according to HomeGain's 2007 national survey! 4. You attract a broader segment of potential homebuyers! 5. Buyers will view your house as better maintained! 6. You and your family will be less stressed because you don't have to do it yourself and most staging projects can be done in one day! 7. Homeowners can not view their house objectively! 8.Home Inspectors and Home Appraisers tend to give better reports/appraisals for staged homes versus non-staged homes 9. Few people can visualize the potential of a vacant or cluttered home! 10. MLS pictures and virtual tours of staged homes emphasizes the unique beauty of a home better than a non-staged home A Small Investment=A Big Return!