Home Staging That Works - by Starr C Osborne (Paperback)

About the Book

Want to sell your home at a premium price--now? Discover the secrets and staging techniques the pros don't want you to know that that will turn your home into a highly sought-after showpiece.

Book Synopsis

In this game-changing book, author Starr C. Osborne shares secrets that staging consultants don't want you to know for yourself, which will help you save money during the sales process and maximize the value of your home.

As one of America's most successful staging experts, Osborne knows what staging tricks cause buyers to fight over a property. Home Staging That Works provides specific recommendations on what to do, keep, chuck, fix, paint, replace, avoid, update, show, hide, highlight, and more.

You'll learn how to:

• focus on your potential buyers' tastes (not your own),
• create curb appeal,
• drive interest online with photos that flatter your home,
• declutter and prepack at the same time,
• clean and repair your home without spending a fortune,
• and keep your home sale-ready without being afraid to live in it

An amazing 91 percent of real estate professionals say professional staging is the way to go. Complete with photographs of real-life before-and-after transformations, Home Staging That Works offers strategies for each room in your home as well as conceptual approaches to bring the parts together beautifully and make the right buyer fall in love.

From the Back Cover

Do you want to sell your home at a premium price -- now?

If you want to sell it fast, and for more money, you need to stage--that is, you need to package your home in a way that emphasizes its strengths, downplays its weaknesses, and immediately appeals to prospective buyers. According to 91% of realtors, home staging is the way to go.

But you don't need to pay a professional thousands of dollars to give your home a strategic makeover. In Home Staging That Works, you'll learn all the secrets, tricks, and techniques of the trade.

Staging is all about making a spectacular first impression on a buyer, and staging expert Starr C. Osborne gives you step-by-step, room-by-room instructions on what to do, keep, toss, fix, paint, replace, avoid, update, show, hide, highlight, and more. First, she teaches you how to see what a buyer sees. (Beware: that buyer will probably notice more about your house in 30 seconds than you've noticed in the last two years.) Then, she shows you how to make your home look big, bright, warm, and welcoming--in short, everything the buyer has been looking for.

In Home Staging That Works, you'll learn how to:

Focus on your potential buyers' tastes (not your own).

Create curb appeal.

Drive Internet interest with photos that flatter your home.

De-clutter and pre-pack at the same time.

Clean and repair your home without spending a fortune.

Keep your home sale-ready-without being afraid to live in it.

Packed with bulleted "must-do" lists, real-home examples, and 65 photos-many "before and after"-to illustrate the dramatic difference staging makes, Home Staging That Works demonstrates how easy and rewarding it can be to redesign your home for the ideal buyer.

Starr C. Osborne is owner and founder of Tailored Transitions, one of the nation's premier home staging, interior design, and moving-management companies. Visit her website at www.tailoredtransitions.com and her blog and tweets at StagingStarr.

About the Author

STARR C. OSBORNE is owner and founder of Tailored Transitions, Philadelphia's premiere home staging, moving-management, and design company.