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When selling your home, it can be tempting to prepare your house using a few tips found on your local real estate show. However, overeager homeowners often make some simple mistakes when staging the property that can negatively impact the ability to sell in a timely fashion. When you hire professional home stagers from Set to Show, they can help you avoid some of these common missteps and close on the sale for a better price in record time.

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What A Home Staging Company Does

Set To Show provides a unique and valuable service. What we do is called home staging. Essentially, we provide furnishings and other items for home on the market and carefully arrange these items to improve the home’s ambiance. Studies show that a professionally staged home sells more quickly and for more money than an empty home. Put yourself in the prospective buyer’s shoes: Is it easier to imagine great moments with your family in a vacant house or a home that looks ready to move into? To learn more about the specific benefits of professional home staging, read on.

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It can be difficult to understand exactly what drives a home's value when there are so many factors behind the final number. However, one thing is clear about the psychology of selling — it can be extremely helpful to stage a home so potential home buyers can really picture themselves living there. See how it works, and why a home staging company may be able to help.

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A staged home spends 90 percent less time on the market than unstaged homes and sells for about 17 percent more than unstaged homes. If you are looking to sell a home, staging is something you should consider based on these statistics alone. But if you have never staged a home before, you may wonder why home staging can help a home to sell faster. Here are a few of the reasons why.

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Home staging has been around now for several years, and with that are several misconceptions. In the ten years we’ve been providing expert home staging services in the Twin Cities, we’ve heard it all. However, once homeowners experience the benefits of home staging, they’re our biggest advocates! Effective home staging is about more than moving around furniture and updating the trim. It’s about taking a holistic view of a home and property and creating an inviting space for potential buyers to envision themselves as the new homeowner.

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After a long and cold winter, people are looking for signs of spring at every turn. Warming weather, budding trees, and the first daffodils all mark the slow arrival of spring here in Minnesota. Spring is a time of renewal and excitement, and over the years has shown itself to be a prime season for selling a home. There are other reasons why spring is the busiest home selling and buying season. We see longer days, easier travel, more options for buyers, better prices for sellers, and of course, the return to the outdoors. Getting a house ready to sell in the spring requires more attention to the outside of your home, including the exterior and yard. Here are some tips we have for improving your home’s spring curb appeal after a long winter:

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Home decor trends, much like fashion, are here today and gone tomorrow. Certain classic elements are steadfast, creating the solid foundation for a beautiful and stylish home. And, if you’re planning on selling your home this year, it’s time to look at recent trends, assess what you have in your home, and find ways to move forward with your home decor. To help you get started, we’ve compiled a list of our top 5 trends to ditch this year so you can start fresh and sell your home!

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If you are one of the brave souls looking to sell your home during a Minnesota winter, we commend you. Selling a home is no cake walk as it is, and doing so during our region’s most infamous season adds another challenging layer. All that being said, there are plenty of people who are looking to buy homes this time of year, and they might as well be looking at yours.

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