We know that there’s so much to do when selling your home and moving (so overwhelming!) so we’ve broken it down for you to absorb a couple items at a time.
There are a couple of posts that are written by a military spouse who has bought, sold and moved a dozen times (she’s the real expert!), but also things I’ve learned from shooting real estate photography for 7 years. You will find many tips in here, but they do slant towards staging and getting your home ready to look its best to increase value and showings.
We do focus on tips for selling homes in this email series, but also if you’re looking to list your home to rent, you can find some useful items in here as well… Lauren from Washington posted this review in regards this course and renting out your home:
“As a military family who bought our first house and wanted to keep it when we moved, we quickly realized there were a lot of things about renting/listing a place that we didn’t know. Rachel Carter’s expertise and the RCI+Topsail website were incredibly helpful during this time.
One of my favorite articles was titled, “Home Staging on a Dime.” We utilized the tips including grouping decorations by color (stacks of books) to create cohesive, eye catching pops in the pictures.
Another article that made so much sense, kind of that feeling of “OH this is why I like this,” was 7 Proven Ways to Increase Interest When Selling Your Home. In this article, Rachel clarifies WHY you fall in love with certain houses online and not others. For us, having a pop of greenery using a filter or hiring a photographer for the outside photos of our house and then having those be the first picture a potential renter came across made so much sense.
With these + tons of other great articles, it made renting our house way less stressful/overwhelming and we ended up having three potential renters in less than 24 hours.”

Examples of topics we’ll tackle:
- Mistakes to Avoid When Selling
- Home Staging +
- Kitchen Staging
- Bathroom Staging
- Staging on a Budget
- Preparing Your House for Photos
- Reasons Your House May Not Be Selling
+ so much more!
I hope you will also find these tips to reduce your stress during the selling/moving process!