Home Staging Prepare Your House For Sale

Seeking Help From A Professional Stager

A professional stager knows how to stir up that elusive positive mood amongst buyers touring your house. It is this pleasant emotional response that entices a buyer to say, “This is the right home for me.” More often than not, these buyers are willing to pay more to get what they want because they have already emotionally moved in. Compare this with those that see your house as a cheap buy. You certainly don’t want to hang out with the latter camp.

Home stagers offer a wide range of services that might include:

  • Consulting
  • Decluttering
  • Repairing, patching, and painting
  • Thorough cleaning
  • Rearranging artificial lighting and furniture
  • Helping you choose new window treatments
  • Adding and moving accessories
  • Improving the curb appeal

They would hire the right trade people and rent furniture to get the job done. It’s all about marketing. Professional stagers know, and you will too by the end of this guide, that the way you live and the way you present your house for sale are two different things. The focus is no longer on what you desire. The focus is what the buyers desire.

We recognize the value a professional stager brings to the table but we feel equally strong that you should read this website in its entirety. You will appreciate the efforts going into preparing your house for sale. This should help you to decide how much you want to tackle on your own.

As a minimum, we recommend that you hire a professional stager on an hourly consulting basis at the start of the project and at near completion to get his or her honest opinion on what needs to be done. It’ll cost a few hundred dollars but it will be worth every penny.

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Do your rooms have identity crises? In making your house a home, you may have overloaded a room to suit a purpose it wasn’t intended for; for example, your family room also serves as a music room; the living room is doubling up as an exercise room; perhaps your dining room has been transformed into an office. Instead of shuffling furniture from one area of the house to another, you should consider putting these items away until your house is sold. When this isn’t realistic, perhaps your basement can be partitioned to host some of the secondary functions such as sewing, exercising, playing music, etc.
Kitchen: fix drawers that jam or sticky. Buyers do open them.
Basement: sweep and mop the concrete floor. You should be able to walk barefooted.
The kitchen is the most used room in the house. It is one area that deserves devoted attention. Buyers want a kitchen that is bright, well organized, and that provides lots of space on the countertops and in the cabinets.
Mistake #5: Focusing too much on expensive remodeling as opposed to making small improvements to help sell your house. You can save thousands by focusing on the little things.
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