prepare a home for sale: Are you tripping over dollars to save pennies?
- 06/09/11 07:38 AM
Are you tripping over dollars to save pennies? I run into this situation a lot with sellers whether I am listing and or staging their property. Many sellers focus on how much cleaning, decluttering or repairing something costs and not on what they are potentially making off the sale. Yes, even in this market there are plenty of sellers with equity in their homes, just not as much as they "would have, should have or could have made" if they hypothetically sold it a few years ago. I often hear the objections at two main intervals in the sales process. 1. … (42 comments)
prepare a home for sale: Does Staging your home for sale mean it will sell faster and for more money?
- 01/22/11 08:48 AM
Does Staging your home for sale mean it will sell faster and for more money? Yes, No, Maybe. I have read several blog posts and their responses recently from Lenn Harley, Karen Bernetti and Julea Joseph about home staging, stagers, their value to the sales process (as well as their credibility) that have inspired me to write a post that offers my two cents. There is much debate between agents and stagers over the value of staging. The responses from those debates has led me to believe that we have not done a good job at educating each other on what … (14 comments)
prepare a home for sale: What do stagers do when they prepare a home for sale in Charlotte, NC?
- 01/10/11 10:47 AM
What do stagers do when they prepare a home for sale? That is a question I get asked all the time when I meet people for the first time and tell them that I am a home stager. The short answer is I prepare a house for sale, (regardless of price or location) to appeal to the broadest range of buyers. I also tell people when sellers make the decision to stage their home it gives them a competitive edge against other similar homes in our current buyer's market so they can beat out competing listings and sell quicker (that competition … (1 comments)
Are you tripping over dollars to save pennies? I run into this situation a lot with sellers whether I am listing and or staging their property. Many sellers focus on how much cleaning, decluttering or repairing something costs and not on what they are potentially making off the sale. Yes, even in this market there are plenty of sellers with equity in their homes, just not as much as they "would have, should have or could have made" if they hypothetically sold it a few years ago.
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