Staging a Home for Sale
By Leads on Oct 19, 2008 in Featured
The housing market is facing record breaking conditions and the competition for home sales is fierce. With an abundance of homes on the market, staging your home for a quick sale is imperative. Presenting your home and its positive attributes is important to differentiate your home from the hundreds of other homes potential customers might have already looked at.
Making your home look like a showcase home takes careful planning and preparation. Taking down family photos and de-cluttering everything from coffee tables to countertops. Organize cabinets and closets so they look bigger. Try packing boxes with excess things giving the allusion your home is bigger and it will help you begin the process of moving. Light candles in bathrooms and in the kitchen to give your home a beautiful smell and will cover up any lingering pet odors or cooking smells. Turn on fans and lights to make the home look lived in.
In the master bedroom, place jar candles around bathtubs giving off beautiful light and smell to entice customers into feeling at home in your home already. Giving the master bedroom a familiar feel is important since the decision maker of the house hunting trip will reside in the master bedroom. Flowers and richly scented candles on the nightstand will create a romance to the room which will hopefully close the deal and get you an offer for your home in this competitive housing market.
Yasir | Aug 25, 2009 | Reply
Just wanted to mention that it would be a great time to buy a house as well, especially when the prices are so low. In Toronto Canada, where I live, the prices have gone down 40%
Cathy | Jan 14, 2010 | Reply
Yeah, I totally agree with you.. with lots of competition today, one should give their best to showcase their house. To be able to easily sell you house and attract possible customers, one should consider factors like cleanliness and etc. Great suggestions there.
John Stanley | Jan 18, 2010 | Reply
Hi…
Great post. As someone that used to be actively involved in real esate sales, I know firsthand the difference between the final sales price a home may have depending on whether or not it was staged.
I mean, the gap is drastic. For the investment you put into staging your home, you have the potential of making that back several times over.
What I don’t understand is why so many people are put off by the home staging process. My opinion is that this is due to just simple laziness.
Properly staging a home is hard work. But the monetary payoff in higher selling prices should make home staging an obvious option.
John Stanley
Mike | Feb 24, 2010 | Reply
Great article!