Following last week's article I had a handful of conversations with friends and real estate professionals about the process of staging homes for sale. While nobody can deny the effectiveness of staging a home that you are listing for sale, there is some associated cost and hassle with the process. Add kids and a pet or two to the mix and the concept is almost laughable. Our mid-eclipse discussion turned to ways you can prepare your home without the full upheaval of a comprehensive staging process. In the end we were surprised at the number of items we discovered that wouldn't break the bank (or the busy schedule) and would stil...
Tis the season. Regardless of whether you live in a college town or not, fall is a popular time for rental tenants to migrate. For landlords, this is the perfect time to invest a little into your property and ideally give you the opportunity to increase your rental rates. There are loads of options you have when doing a renovation of your property, but today our focus will be on those upgrades that will provide a solid return on investment. At the same time, we don't really want to break the bank so our focus will also be on those projects that we can (maybe) do ourselves and that are cost-effective. Let's dig in.
Two weeks...