So I just did this about a year ago. We have three small kids so there was no way i was putting the family through showings and such trying to sell the house. Our bank worked with us to finance two properties by calculating the expected rental income on one of them, which basically gave us options to do what we wanted with the other house. The old house took almost a year to sell in a tough market, but the minute i staged it we had it sold in two weeks.
I would 100% stage a vacant house, every single time. It was incredible how great the home looked once staged, and traffic jumped considerably. Buyers just cannot visualise a home without furniture.
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