Do Your Own Home Staging (Self-Counsel Press Reference) [Paperback]

Tina Marlene Parker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 15, 2008 | Series: Self-Counsel Press Reference

This book demonstrates step-by-step what you can do to sell your home faster and for a better price. Just as you would get dressed up for a job interview, your home needs to be presented in the best possible way to make the sale and get a great price. Do Your Own Home Staging shows you how, using tested and often inexpensive techniques to make any home more appealing to buyers.

With the housing markets in the US and in parts of Canada slowing down, homeowners are looking for ways to improve their chances of making the sale. This book will be helpful for those who want to sell their own homes and for people working with a real estate agent.

The book takes you step-by-step through everything that needs to be done prior to putting your home on the market. Covering every room in your house, there are checklists of things to do, and budget guidelines.

This is not a book about renovating your home before selling it. It's about the simple things that you can do to improve its sale value.

* Inexpensive techniques that will help show off your home's best features

* Easy tips to make your home appeal to a wider range of buyers

* Guidelines to help you downplay features of your home that may be unattractive to buyers

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About the Author

Tina Parker is a home staging specialist with 20 years of experience. She operates her own home staging business, Upstage Home Redesign.

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Self Counsel Press; Pap/Cdr edition (September 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1551808382
• ISBN-13: 978-1551808383
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,251,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

As owner of UpStage Home ReDesign in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Certified Professional Home Stager Tina Parker combines proven home staging techniques with 20 years experience in design and target marketing strategies, using insight into the minds of potential buyers to produce an effective approach.

Tina wrote, Do Your Own Home Staging, to address the misconception that Home Staging is easy and a lot of fun. After all the hard work is done, it can be fun but it is not easy, by far. Concerned that homeowners apply what they've seen on television to unsuccessful results, she included tips, tricks, secrets and checklists to ensure you have everything you need to prepare your property for today's market expectations.

Throughout the years Tina has had a strong passion for home improvement and interior decorating, always utilizing creativity to solve the many decorating challenges friends and family had in their homes. It wasn't until she owned her own homes did she thrive on the before and after results of home improvement and was able to make considerable profit in the meantime.

Now that the act of getting a property ready for sale has an identity, she is excited to find Home Staging combining her creative talents, passion, education and work experience. Which include: interior decorating, target marketing & consumer demographics, consumer relationship management, graphic design, and home improvement; all coming together to support home staging successfully.