Staging your Home
A half hour spent in front of HGTV's "Designed to Sell" or A&E's "Sell This House" tells you a couple of things.
1. The first is that an astoundingly high number people have really lousy taste in décor along with an undeveloped sense of what's frowned upon by the general, home-buying public.
2. And an investment of a few hundred or maybe a few thousand dollars in a home headed for the market — a sprucing up the pros call "home staging" — can yield nice returns.
You may ask why stage a house? Well it is because buyers only imagine what they actually see – which is a stark difference from what is going to be. The buyer has a very hard time looking past purple walls and ugly wallpaper. If done well, staging makes a remarkable difference. "We took over a house that was on the market for six months, didn't change the price, staged it, and it sold in 18 days," says Realtor® Paul Conti, who with his wife Ginger, stages and sells houses with Re/Max Valley Properties in San Jose, Calif.
Here are just a few things that you can do to stage your own house;
• Start at the street – get “curb appeal” by creating a great first impression. Make sure your lawn and gardens look fantastic while placing trash cans and bikes out of the way. Replace your front door if need be but whatever you do update what you already have.
• Improve you foyer – the second place any buyer looks is the foyer. Make sure that there are no coats, shoes etc. laying around. Place fresh flowers on a nearby table.
• Clean, clean and then clean some more – if you do not have time to clean hire a cleaning crew. Nobody wants to buy a gross and smelly house.
• Fix anything broken and update what you can – this is just plain courtesy.
• Try as best as you can to erase your personality – this helps the buyer to invision their house instead of yours. This means to box up collectables and put away personal items.
To learn more about staging your home, click here. Also please contact Russell Nolting at www.noltingrealestate.com or 636-391-9997 for all your real estate needs!
1. The first is that an astoundingly high number people have really lousy taste in décor along with an undeveloped sense of what's frowned upon by the general, home-buying public.
2. And an investment of a few hundred or maybe a few thousand dollars in a home headed for the market — a sprucing up the pros call "home staging" — can yield nice returns.
You may ask why stage a house? Well it is because buyers only imagine what they actually see – which is a stark difference from what is going to be. The buyer has a very hard time looking past purple walls and ugly wallpaper. If done well, staging makes a remarkable difference. "We took over a house that was on the market for six months, didn't change the price, staged it, and it sold in 18 days," says Realtor® Paul Conti, who with his wife Ginger, stages and sells houses with Re/Max Valley Properties in San Jose, Calif.
Here are just a few things that you can do to stage your own house;
• Start at the street – get “curb appeal” by creating a great first impression. Make sure your lawn and gardens look fantastic while placing trash cans and bikes out of the way. Replace your front door if need be but whatever you do update what you already have.
• Improve you foyer – the second place any buyer looks is the foyer. Make sure that there are no coats, shoes etc. laying around. Place fresh flowers on a nearby table.
• Clean, clean and then clean some more – if you do not have time to clean hire a cleaning crew. Nobody wants to buy a gross and smelly house.
• Fix anything broken and update what you can – this is just plain courtesy.
• Try as best as you can to erase your personality – this helps the buyer to invision their house instead of yours. This means to box up collectables and put away personal items.
To learn more about staging your home, click here. Also please contact Russell Nolting at www.noltingrealestate.com or 636-391-9997 for all your real estate needs!
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