Top 10 Home-Staging Dos

Please Do:

• Set your listing price by utilizing area comparables, not based upon what you need to buy that ostrich farm.

• Put personal collections away someplace safe, like a bank vault in Zurich.

• Invest in a fresh coat of paint and get 150 percent green back on your investment.

• Disclose everything, especially the stuff you are tempted not to.

• Fix all running toilets, or risk flushing profits down the drain.

• Remember that "outside" is the new "inside." Show off all of your living spaces.

• Visit model homes to see how neutrality and spaciousness are made to feel so inviting.

• Grind a lemon in the garbage disposal – it smells great and it's such great exercise.

• Display the kind of plants that aren't injection-molded and painted in a factory somewhere overseas.

• Keep your day job. Hire an agent and assist them in doing what they do best.