Staging a Home

Barb Schwartz’s favorite saying and hence mine is: “The way you live in a house and the way you sell a house are two different things!” Staging your home for sale involves depersonalizing it, getting rid of clutter and cleaning.

Kim McDaniels of DecorateU.com gives 10 to reasons for Staging Your home to Sell!

1. The longer your house sits on the market, the less it sells for.

2. Staging you home costs less than the price of an ad and it is much more effective.

3. Today’s homebuyer is educated and very pressed for time.

4. It will create a positive and outstanding first impression you need to see your house faster and move on with your life.

5. Buyers form an opinion about your house within five seconds of seeing it.

6. It sets the scene for buyers to mentally move in right away.

7. Your home is directly competing against every other house on the market. Staged homes look better than unstaged homes because it is presented in the best possible light and is ready to be sold.

8. Sellers have more confidence showing a staged property to buyers.

9. Stages houses sell faster and for more money in most markets, usually within 10 days or less and the return on your investment for staging can be 10 to 20-fold.

10. Real Estate Appraisers are more likely to appraise staged homes at full value.