Book-lovers, let’s talk organization. How do you arrange your books? Shelves, crates, bookcase? Do you organize by author, subject/genre, or even by color? (I’m silently judging you if this is your choice... Just kidding.) Are you a fellow book hoarder, with hundreds of volumes stacked up on every flat ...

Life in a studio is all fine and cozy until you want to have a guest - or, heaven forbid, more than one - over. All of the sudden, the wide-open floor plan and lack of dividing walls can make things awkward, especially when it comes to obscuring your sleeping space. The ...

Previously, I wrote the first part of a two-part series on how to take better listing photos for your home. With the extreme importance of that first thumbnail on your listing, you can’t afford to gamble your home sale on pictures that show your property in an unfavorable light. You’ve ...

People are visually stimulated. Never is this the case more than when shopping for a home. It’s estimated that 90 percent of people start their home search online, checking for listings that they think are attractive before going to an agent. And also, in a similar majority of cases, prospective ...

Staging your home for an open house can be a very daunting concept. Should you paint? Should you hire a company to replace all your furniture until you move out? SHOULD YOU KNOCK DOWN A WALL? Take a deep breath, home seller. While all the previously listed staging tips are ...

Buying a foreclosed home can be a positive experience, but it can also turn into a total disaster. Much of the difference between these two outcomes stems from the buyers’ knowledge of how the foreclosure buying process works and understanding their own ability to maneuver around the kinks in the ...

Having already tackled the question of home improvements that millennials love, it’s time to take a look at your second-largest prospective-homebuyer cohort: baby boomers. Baby boomers are the largest age group to ever retire… there’s an estimated 74 million of them in the United States. There’s no denying that they ...

When there’s a holiday season afoot, theming your open houses to the time of year is more than welcome. It helps put prospective buyers in the spirit and shows off how your home looks at its most festive, which could potentially enchant a new owner. As Halloween nears, you should ...

Getting ready to sell your home means taking a look at what today’s buyer pool wants, overall, and trying to give it to them. Before just recently, that meant targeting Gen X and baby boomer families, and aiming for home features and fixtures that suited their taste. However, in late ...

I have no doubt that, somewhere out there, some wiley real estate agent has written a textbook as thick as the old-fashioned phone book that delves into the psychology of home staging and why certain actions produce certain results when it comes to prepping your home for sale. Of course ...