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title: "KATV: Tips for Updating Your Home for Sale"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/89b95209-20e9-4c31-a07b-02a1bf8ebb85
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/katv-tips-for-updating-your-home-for-sale-2190
category: "Franchise Industry"
industry: "Franchise Industry"
topics: ["Development & multi-unit","Finance & M&A"]
published: 2015-08-07T20:15:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T18:03:03.459Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/8d777f385d3dfec8815d20f7496026dc5972.png
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# KATV: Tips for Updating Your Home for Sale

**TL;DR:** Showhomes Home Staging franchisees Mark and Dana Baggett offer tips for updating a home for sale, focusing on simple fixes and visual appeal. They suggest making minor updates to increase the selling price and make a house more appealing to potential buyers.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2015-08-07. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/katv-tips-for-updating-your-home-for-sale-2190).*

## Story

The summer months are the busiest time of year for buying and selling homes. In competitive market, making a house visually appealing to a buyer can make all the difference; that’s where Showhomes Home Staging comes in.

Mark and Dana Baggett, Showhomes franchisees, suggest making simple fixes like replacing outdoor plants that have wilted in the heat and updating knobs on hardware that may have either weathered or become outdated to help entice a potential buyer.

“People aren’t looking for fixer uppers anymore,” Mark told KATV. “Buyers don’t have time to invest into fixing up the house.”

With shows that offer many DIY techniques and channels dedicated to home improvement, many buyers have unrealistic expectations for how a home should look. Showhomes creates an atmosphere that matches buyer’s expectations. They not only increase the visual appeal for a faster sale but ultimately also the selling price.

“We’re making sure that the carpet, walls, the ceilings are what they need to be,” Mark told KATV. “If you’re selling your home, you’re competing against other homes on the market. If you walk into a home and it’s dated, well then you’re competing against the brand new houses. We want to bring that house up to market level so you have the highest sale price.”

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Franchise Industry (sector)
- home staging (topic)
- competitive market (topic)
- visual appeal (topic)
- simple fixes (topic)
- selling price (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/katv-tips-for-updating-your-home-for-sale-2190). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/89b95209-20e9-4c31-a07b-02a1bf8ebb85).