Dress Your House for Success
You should focus on staging to sell – you’re on the market now so make your home appeal to buyers. Buyers form an opinion to purchase within the first seven seconds of seeing your home. Seven seconds!
You have seven seconds to make a resounding first impression. A small investment in time and money will give your home an edge over other homes in the area that are being shown to prospective buyers.
Showcase your home to get the buyer’s attention immediately. Oddly, that usually means less is more.
Does Staging Help Homes Sell Faster?
Proper staging includes making your home clean and clutter-free.
Research shows that well-staged homes
sell approximately 32% faster
than non-staged homes. They also sell for 3 to 10% more. Do the math and see how many thousands of dollars we are talking about! Homes that are warm, cozy, and well-staged sell the fastest.
As a seller, you may hire a professional home stager or stage your home yourself. Naturally, if you do it yourself, you should have a plan, some guidelines and a checklist to follow.
The # 1 Room Influencing Buyers’ Decision
KITCHEN
Socializing and family life has shifted to the kitchen. Where buyers’ picture themselves talking with friends and preparing gourmet meals.
Kitchens have become the Center Stage for home life and entertainment. There is No longer a closed room where food is prepared and brought out to another room.
Lifestyles have changed, as have buyers’ expectations. Stage your kitchen properly, and you will be surprised at how beautiful it will be, regardless of age.
BATH
Bright, clean, luxurious baths sell homes. Buyers just love luxurious-looking bathrooms. Does this mean you need to spend lots of money on a remodel? Absolutely not.
But you do need to clean, brighten, and stage your baths. Remove everything that does not enhance the bathroom’s appearance—do you really need five bottles of shampoo?
Fresh towels, soaps, and flowers stimulate the imagination and remind buyers of how wonderful their lives would be if they lived here.
KIDS ROOMS
Your children present a special challenge. It’s important for them to feel confident about their surroundings and still maintain a balance of control. Here’s an article that may help you with these decisions.
STAGING TO SELL – MAKE IT “ANONYMOUS”
Visit any builders model home and you will find some wonderfully (but sparsely) furnished homes that anyone could live in — with the emphasis on “anyone.” They are anonymous. There may be a baseball glove in the boy’s room, but very few family photos on the walls.
THERE MAY BE “PERSONALITY” – BUT NO PERSON.
You want to make your home “anonymous” because you want buyers to view it as their potential home. When a potential homebuyer sees your family photos hanging on the wall, it is more difficult for them to “mentally move in.”
Put away family photos, sports trophies, collectible items, knickknacks, and souvenirs in a box. Rent a storage area for a few months and put the box in the storage unit.
Do not just put the box in the attic, basement, garage, or closet. Move unnecessary furniture to that storage area, too. Too much furniture makes the rooms seem smaller than they are.
PART OF PREPARING A HOUSE FOR SALE IS TO REMOVE “CLUTTER,”
MAKE IT Q-TIP CLEAN AND
DO THOSE SMALL REPAIRS THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
Here you go…information about staging your house from State Farm.
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–Norma Wall, Broker, North Point Realty, 214-212-6770