Yesterday while waiting for a client in the leasing waiting area at One Boston North a Luxury complex just north of Boston, a woman walked in with her dog and said that she was there for the DNA sample.  The assistant leasing manager came back with two large Q-tips, and asked the woman to get some saliva from inside the dog’s mouth. After a bit of a normal tussle (think giving your dog medicine), the task was complete.  And this resident handed back the Q-tips, which were then placed in a zip lock bag, and labeled with the dog’s name, owner’s name, unit number, and sent off to the lab for processing.  

Pre-staging, home staging, or is it just plain staging? Call it what you like, every home seller needs to know what it means to them. In todays DIY, reality TV, home improvement world, most of us have heard the term. And some of us may have a vague idea of what it is. But few of us really know how it translates into our own homes.