I just took this listing where the sellers were having trouble making the payments and were drowning in debt. The house looked like they felt. I had ideas about what needed to be done to get the house in showing shape but rather than going into detail & looking like the bad guy-I offered to hire a stager. They watch all the "Home" shows and loved the idea. The stager came in -gave suggestions- left my clients with a shoping list of things to get & motivated them about the sale. They found the money to get the place in order & on day 4 we got an offer very close to asking. My clients are over the moon. Staging Works.