Our 5 Favorite Home Staging Tips

07/11/16 • -1 min

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We get questions from sellers quite frequently regarding home staging. They want to know what to do, how to do it, and how it will help their home sell. Here are our top five tips for staging your home to sell:

1. De-clutter the home. You don’t have to depersonalize your home as much as you need to remove all the clutter. A few photos here and there are fine, but only leave a few pieces of key furniture in each room.

2. Remove heavy ite...

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2. Remove heavy ite...

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Why Can't You Trust Zillow When Home Shopping in Lake Ozark?

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Zillow is immensely popular right now, as buyers and sellers alike typically start the real estate process by going to the website for information. But should you really trust everything you find on Zillow?

Zillow is very user-friendly and has some great information; the problem is it also has a lot of misinformation. For instance, they often have listings on their website that have expired or are under contract or sold. If you are serious about finding a home, you're wasting your time by looking through the listings on Zillow.

We have a fully updated and accurate Multiple Listing Service that is free for buyers to use. While Zillow has a lot of great features that makes it fun to look at homes, they aren't very accurate and they don’t take into account the unique features of your home. Zillow won’t know if you have a 50-foot dock or if you have a beautiful view of the lake.

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I'm happy to be joined today by a fellow agent, Nicol O'Sullivan.

She's a graduate of the University of Missouri with a degree in marketing, and while she's relatively new to real estate, her family has been in the construction and home building business for years and years, so she's well-versed in the field. I'm proud to say her team is number 15 right now in the whole Lake of the Ozarks in total sales.

As an agent, ...