Have you ever been to a listing appointment and you knew the seller should do some updates, but you had no idea what to recommend?

Like what paint colors are in? What flooring is popular?

What's the best bang for your buck when it comes to prepping the home for the market?

Great questions, right? Well, today's guest is Jordan Smith and he covers all of that and more.

He's out of Charlotte, North Carolina and

specializes in turning ugly homes into pretty homes. He's helped investors and

homeowners transform almost 70 homes in the past couple years and is here to help us know what's hot and what's not in

today's market. Expect to learn what to do with the exterior for the best

curb appeal, whether to recommend ceiling fans or chandeliers, when to do carpet versus

LVP, whether to do real staging or virtual staging, and stick around to the end for

how to help your seller

estimate the costs of all of these items.

You're listening to the Real Estate Roxars Podcast,

the show for agents who've been around the block

and are finally ready to build sustainable, scalable businesses, ones that you don't secretly hate or want to escape from.

My name is Shelby Johnson. I'm an Army veteran turned real estate entrepreneur turned podcast, host, and I'm a conference junkie. Bringing up this conference note today

to remind you, one, the 2025 Real Estate RockSars mastermind is the best event of the year and tickets

are on sale now. There's a link in the show notes or you can

hit me up on Instagram at the Shelby Show for The Fool Scoop.

And two, I am going to the Tom Ferry Summit in Dallas in August and would love to meet up so let me know if you're going.

And now rock stars welcome Jordan Smith. All right, so hypothetically, I've got a listing and it needs a little bit of a facelift

before going on the market, like normal stuff, walls are scuffed, little dated, carpets beyond repair, you know, the norm, but the problem is the

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