Selling your home? Here's one proven way to get more money.

You're shopping for a new home and your first step is looking at photos of homes online. You find a gorgeous home with a beautifully maintained yard and everything seems perfect until you click on the photos of the inside of the home. There's too much clutter!

If you're looking to sell your home, staging and de-cluttering is a must. Staging allows the buyer to picture their family in your home. While on one hand an empty home can leave people wondering how things would look and whether their current furnishings would fit, a nicely staged home let's people see the potential.

The National Association of REALTORS did some research on staging. Here are some of the findings:

-77% of buyers' agents said staging a home made it easier for a buyer to visualize the property as a future home.

-About 1/3 of buyers' agents said that staging a home increased the dollar value offered between one and five percent. That's compared to other similar homes on the market that are not staged.

-The most common home improvement items agents recommended to sellers were decluttering the home (93%), entire home cleaning (89%), carpet cleaning (81%) and removing pets during showings (80%).

Do you need help staging your home for sale? I can help.

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