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Essential Home Staging Tips for Pet Parents

Essential Home Staging Tips for Pet Parents - Potential buyers may not share your feelings regarding your pet. Even from persons who are pet owners themselves, displaying signs of pet ownership might greatly discourage possible offers. Most real estate professionals agree that staging your property with a neutral color, for instance, allows purchasers to picture themselves living there. However, despite all the work put into staging, your prospects of selling your property could be ruined if there were signs that you had pets. Buyers will see you and your pets at each step rather than themselves living in their future homes. Pets can be wonderful, devoted friends, but they aren't necessarily a selling feature for houses. Therefore, to help you out, we offer some essential home staging tips for pet parents. Keep reading to see how you can make your home more attractive, even if you own pets.

How to Stage Your Home During the Holidays

How to Stage Your Home During the Holidays - The real estate business slows down during the holiday season. Many sellers, buyers, and even real estate agents go on vacation or want to spend quality time with their families. But this doesn’t mean you can’t sell your home during this period. After all, some buyers never stop searching for that perfect home. So, you should make sure that your property looks its best at all times. One way to do that is by staging your home to sell. As any realtor will tell you, this is essential all year round, but it’s different during the holiday season. So, here are some tips on how to stage your home during the holidays.

Seller's Guide to Staging a House While Living in It

Selling a house is never easy. A lot of thought and effort goes into it, from when you decide to sell to when you seal the deal with a buyer. To attract buyers, you need to put a lot of energy into staging your property. It's one of the most important and challenging things to pay attention to. Also, it doesn't help if you must live on the property while doing so. To make things easier, we devised this seller's guide to staging a house while living in it.

Tips on How to Make Your Home Look Twice as Attractive

Tips on How to Make Your Home Look Twice as Attractive - If your home is no longer your favorite place to be, then this is a sure sign that something major needs to be done to it so that you fall in love with it again. Furthermore, it’s no longer just about making your home look as pretty as possible; nowadays, homeowners want a space that promotes their well-being. So, if you’re not proud of your home anymore, here are some helpful tips to make it twice as attractive.

If you’re looking to sell your home, visit Home Staging Warehouse where we have all the expertise and home decor to redo your home!

What is a Half Bath vs. Three Quarter vs. Full?

What is a Half Bath vs. Three Quarter vs. Full?

As with many homeowners searching for their dream home, you’ll want to find the perfect space to grow into and enjoy. Many people tend to focus on the overall square footage or the number of bedrooms in a home. However, the number and type of bathrooms are also important to how well a house will function for a family. Figuring out different bathroom configurations can be confusing. From half baths to full baths, this article will outline the different types of bathrooms to help you understand each layout, remodeling costs to fix an existing bathroom, and even how to add a bathroom to a home.

How to Sell Your House in 2022

So, you’ve evaluated your finances, thought about your lifestyle, and made the big decision to sell your home. Maybe you’ve decided to downsize, or you’re moving out of the big city because you can work remotely, or perhaps you just want to relocate somewhere warmer like Palm Springs, CA or Miami, FL. Whatever the reason, you’re ready to sell. With so many things to consider, from home inspections to staging, selling a house can be an overwhelming process. Luckily, for you, we put together a comprehensive guide on how to sell your house in 2022.

4 Simple Home Staging Hacks for Busy Families

4 Simple Home Staging Hacks for Busy Families - When your schedule is already filled with playdates, appointments and work meetings, you barely have time to think about staging your home. But if your home is on the market, it needs to be clean, decluttered and staged perfectly if you hope to sell it quickly. So how can busy families balance all this prep work with an already packed schedule? Luckily, Home Staging Warehouse is here with tips on how to do just that.

Inexpensive Home Staging Tips You Can’t Afford to Skip

Inexpensive Home Staging Tips You Can’t Afford to Skip - For some sellers, the idea of staging your home may seem strange. After all, you’ve put lots of thought and care into decorating and furnishing your home. The problem is that buyers are most attracted to homes that feel spacious, open, and bright - yet all the “stuff” that comes along with real life might not generate that feeling. On top of that, they need to overlook it all to see the house for what it is. It’s worth taking the time to eliminate the clutter and stage your home in a way that highlights its best features.

4 Steps to Safely Show Real Estate During a Pandemic

4 Steps to Safely Show Real Estate During a Pandemic - The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way real estate showings are managed. In some states, open houses are prohibited unless a property is unoccupied or vacant. Masks and social distancing are mandatory for prospective buyers and their agents. In other states, rules are looser for home tours and showings.

When you're allowed to conduct home showings and tours, take extra steps to protect your clients and yourself from coronavirus. Here are four steps to conduct the safest real estate showings while the pandemic is active.

Sell Your House Fast: 7 People You Need on Your Team

Sell Your House Fast: 7 People You Need on Your Team - So, you’ve decided to sell your home. Congratulations! Before you start playing with a mortgage calculator to see how much you can afford on your next home, you’ll want to know how to sell your current home fast. Ideally, you’re looking to list your home, generate interest quickly from potential buyers, and in a perfect world, a bidding war will ensue and you will get more than the asking price for your house. But before all of this can happen, you’re going to want to spend some time gathering a team of people who can help you along the way.

10 Steps to a Professionally Staged Kitchen

10 Steps to a Professionally Staged Kitchen - The kitchen is one of the first things home buyers look at, and if they do not like what they see they may never go beyond that room. If you have seen plenty of people at your open houses but still no buyers, it may be time to do some professional staging.

You do not necessarily have to stage every part of your home, and if cash is tight full professional staging may not be possible. But focusing your staging efforts on the kitchen might turn the tide, and here are 10 steps for kitchen staging success.

Why You Should Have a Home Inspection on New Construction

Why You Should Have a Home Inspection on New Construction - A home inspection is very important to the general home-buying process. Home inspection on new construction is even more important, as many mistakes could be made on new construction. 

Aren’t New Homes Built to Code?

The reality is that many new homes are only built to minimum standards. Most home builders build houses to a level that makes the construction legal. Some do not even reach the legal level. The minimum required by law is going to be worse generally than what the best building practices are. A home inspector will be able to tell you what the quality is of your new construction.