Staging helps you show off your house’s best features while minimizing it’s shortcomings.  Not only do the rewards of staging a home give higher returns per dollar spent, but it could also shorten the time your home sits on the market.  On average, sellers receive $2 in increased sale price for every $1 they put into staging a home. As this infographic below shows, the following five golden rules of home staging will help you show off its best assets:

Source:  Moshells.com

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