Recent Blog Posts by Suzanne Dingley

HOW TO STAGE YOUR HOME FOR SALE

When you're getting ready to sell your home, you want to make sure it looks as good as possible for potential buyers. Here are some tips to get your ready to sell.When you're getting ready to sell your home, you want to make sure it looks as good as possible for potential buyers. Here are some house selling tips to get you ready to sell your house.

Before You List, Must-do Showing Tips

Staging pro Sharon Brown with Homescapes by Design in Roseville, Minn., offers her clients a checklist before they list their home for sale. The point of the checklist is to make sure the home is show-ready before the for-sale sign goes up and the first potential buyer walks through the door, and even before photos are snapped for the MLS. The following are the changes Brown most recommends to her ...

UPDATING TO SELL

As a professional Home Stager and Realtor, I frequently meet with homeowners who are considering selling – a little too late. Often homeowners decide to prepare their homes for sale by painting and updating, before inviting me in. Colors and styles change. The days of all-white, very neutral homes are gone. Light fixtures can make an otherwise great home show very dated. Shiny brass fixtures ...

10 Inexpensive Ways to Wow Buyers

Now is the time for home owners contemplating a spring sale to spruce up their properties in anticipation of what Mike Larson of Weiss Research calls a potentially vibrant home-selling season. "If you have been beating your head against a wall, this is going to feel a lot better,” he says.Here are 10 cheap ways to make a property more attractive to shoppers: Improve first impressions. Touch ...

HOLIDAY SAFETY AT HOME

  TEN SAFETY TIPS FROM UNDERWRITER'S LABORATORIES Water, water, water your live tree: Dry trees pose a fire risk. Cut 1/2 - 1" from the bottom of the trunk before putting your tree into a sturdy stand; fill immediately with water and add water frequently. Steer your tree clear: Your tree should be positioned at least three feet away from fireplaces, radiators and other ...