These are probably the ten best staging tips: https://www.familyhandyman.com/list/home-staging-what-to-avoid/
Ten Staging Tips
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Thinking of Selling?
Home Seller Survey
An excerpt from Zillow's seller survey: With the rollout of vaccines against COVID-19, 70% of homeowners in a recent Zillow survey say they would feel mostly or completely comfortable moving to a new home when vaccines are widely distributed — and 78% of homeowners...
Solutions for Potential Sellers
The real estate market is red-hot, prices are higher than ever and buyers are begging for inventory! Many homeowners want to take advantage of this opportunity but are worried where they'll go next. It's a tough market to be a buyer, but this shouldn't discourage you...
Zillow Buying Houses For Zestimate Value
There are a few Zillow issues to unpack here, so let's start with them saying they are willing to buy your house for the amount of the zestimate - which is fine, if you don't care about cashing in on the actual value. In their press release, the boss claims that the...
Sprucing Up to Sell
Homeowners fixing up their homes to list this spring will have to decide where to put their time and money to get the most bang for their buck. Zillow has been there, and the practical tips and tricks their experts have learned after selling 10,000 homes could help...
How Much Over List?
We've had 208 closed SFR sales between La Jolla and Carlsbad this year. How crazy is it? Eighty homes sold over the list price, which is 38% of the total number of sales. Of those, most were just $10,000 to $50,000 over list, but there were some big bombers: Most %...
2021 Is Off and Running
You won't see the signs of the frenzy everywhere, and probably no signs in the $2,000,000+ market. But anywhere you have one-story houses on culdesacs for under $1,000,000 should be cooking:
‘End of Forbearance To Be A Non-Event’
Health, unemployment, stairs, taxes, finances, politics.......selling your home is becoming the answer for everything! More than 2.5 million American homeowners have stopped paying their mortgages, taking advantage of penalty-free forbearance periods offered by...
Who Is Moving Where?
Ryan was nice enough to provide the latest data (2019) from the U.S. Census Bureau on where Californians are moving, and where our new residents are coming from - at least before the pandemic. The big winners on a net basis: More Californians moved there: Texas: ...
Will Prop 19 Increase Inventory?
The U-T asked their twelve real estate experts about the effects of Prop 19: Q: Will Prop. 19 substantially increase home inventory in California? Of the local experts, 11 out of 12 said NO, and the justification for the one YES answer could have been just as easily...
