We all know that these days, buying and selling in the real estate market has took quite a slow drive. This stems from the fact that people are tightening their belts and at the same time evaluating their investment for the worthy home designs. Cheap homes are still around but nothing sells better than a greatly presented and perhaps renovated home up in the market.

Simple makeovers and probably furnishing a property for sale can make a difference. It doesn’t have to be expensive. In short, making a home ready to live in may up the stakes a bit, not to mention that of getting good profits out of it.

After watching her house, priced at $80,000, sit on the market for about a year, Henson recently hired accredited home stager Karen Goss of Jackson to spruce up the site.

Home stagers de-clutter crowded homes, add personal touches — such as furniture and flowers — and make suggestions on how to impress sellers.

“I never had heard about staging until I had seen it on TV,” said Henson, 67, a former Jackson resident who lives in Lansing. “I called my granddaughters in Chicago, and they had seen it was out there and they suggested I should do it.”

Goss and her partner for Henson’s project, Lansing-based stager Jed Leggett, brought in used tables, a couch, framed pictures and other accents. They also planned a list of improvements that Henson could tend to on her own, including replacing the broken window, fixing a rickety porch railing and adding shrubs to the front lawn.

The home could be ready for showing in the next few weeks and Henson hopes to sell the house in a month or two.

(Source) Mlive.com

Tags: Couch, flowers, furniture, improvements, leggett, personal touches, porch railing, property for sale

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