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How to Live in a Staged Property…continued How to live in a Staged Property

Family room
Closed storage can be your best friend in keeping your family room neat. Keep
children’s toys and play items in a cabinet, basket or storage ottoman, for easy
containment during a quick showing. Reduce the stack of magazines on the coffee
table to 1 -2 latest issues, along with your remote. Routinely sort the mail as it
comes in. Mail that needs a response is immediately stored in a drawer or basket;
junk mail is immediately tossed. It will help you keep your family room, kitchen or
office area neater and keep wandering eyes from your personal items, too. If you
are still receiving the daily newspaper, don’t keep yesterday’s issue on the coffee
table, move it to recycling area in your home on a daily basis.

As you will quickly learn, living in a staged property is not easy, but it is
manageable. The key is to change you and your family’s behavior daily, rather than
trying to “clean” when you get the call that a showing is happening in 15
minutes. It will make those showings feel less intrusive and the perfect buyer will
walk right in and fall in love with your well-kept property!