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Staging your house for top dollar
Staging your house just before it goes on the market can make a dramatic improvement in your sales. Staging's goal is to highlight the home's strengths and downplay its weaknesses. House staging is the biggest house-effect out there and for good reason: it works!
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Dining rooms were once a symbol of wealth. Ordinary middle class people ate in the kitchen. Then every new home had to have a dining room and people found out that it wasn't a lot of fun eating in the dining room every night.
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Staging is the new catch phrase for faster sales
Today, especially when the real estate market is contracting, it is important to take advantage of every trick in the book to get your home sold as fast as possible and for top dollar.
One of those tricks is called staging.
Staging is the processing of making your house seem bigger, brighter, cleaner and ideal dwelling for almost any prospect that inspects your property.
Staging is not designed to make your house more liveable for you and your family. In fact, it is a bit of hardship to live in a staged house during the selling process.
You and your family will literaly be out of your comfort zone. Everything that makes your house your home will for the most part be gone. But rememer: this is only temporary. Believe me, having your house on the market is a real drag anyway. Your agent will give you short notice that a "hot prospect" wants to see it RIGHT NOW! Not when you're comfortable, but now. So anything that shortens that "on the market" time will be worth it, even if it means a little more temporary discomfort.
Staging is more than just cleaning, painting, and making repairs.
Once your house has been cleaned, painted, and repaired, and before it is ready to be shown to the public, this is when staging is implemented. Staging is all about the details of how the house is presented.
In a nutshell, staging is reducing the furnishings to bare minimums and creating vignettes inside each room and perhaps multiple vignettes for certain rooms. A completely empty room has no life. A room that is filled with personal photos, hobby items, etc. is filled with so much homeowner personality that a prospect feels like they are intruding into someone's private life. This is not what a house seller wants. HOUSE SELLERS WANT PROSPECTS TO SEE THEMSELVES IN THE HOUSE, NOT HOW SOMEONE ELSE LIVES.
Common accessories might include:
Mirrors
Cut flowers in attractive vases
Fresh fruit
Up lights, table lamps and floor lights
Ottomans
Pillows & baskets
Scented soap bars
Fresh towels
Ironed crisp bed sheets