field. Listing a home for sale consists of many more activities than sticking a sign in the front yard and waiting for the phone to ring and offers to arrive.' What selling a house takes most of is time. Even sellers who engage the services of a professional real estate agent have an enormous amount of work to do to ready the home for the market. The cleaning, landscaping, emptying, repairing, touching up, improving, and maintaining the house in a pristine condition is an enormous investment of time and effort, even if commercial concerns are used for part of the painting, cleaning, landscaping, etc. Probably, the seller has other commitments concurrently with selling a house — like a full-time job, raising a family, and meeting other obligations. To conserve as much time as possible, the seller will want to delegate tasks where practical (i.e., hire a neighborhood teenager to maintain the lawn), thus freeing the seller to focus on other aspects of the move. A professional home stager can be a seller’s lifesaver. Staging experts have expertise, valuable experience (often in your own neighborhood or area), and resources (i.e., furniture and accessories) that they can put to work on your home to increase its salability. A staging professional or firm will create a purpose for each room and theme them to complement the layout, bring in the furniture and home décor necessary to complete the themes throughout the house, and even provide advice and tips to use when showing the house, such as the kind of fresh flowers to buy or scented candles to burn. A staging expert or firm will also provide the manpower to do the heavy lifting and moving furniture throughout the house. Should there be any damage in the process, the stager covers the cost of
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