Columbus Home Sellers - staging #2

Home staging is a service some home sellers use to make their home more saleable than the competition. I am not sure how many Central Ohio home owners use home staging to be number one for home buyers but some swear by home staging.

Selling your Central Ohio home?

Staging #2 - we're number 2 we try harder

To borrow some old ad from a car rental company... was it Hertz? or Avis? that was number two so they tried harder?  How old is that ad?  

Sorry.

I first saw staging being #2 on the Michigan real estate blog of my old pal real estate agent Maureen Francis.  The post is written by  Marianne Sweet of Home Sweet Home Staging in the Detroit Metro area:

Home Staging Ranks #2 in HomeGain’s Top 12 Home Improvements for Sellers

Columbus Home Sellers - staging #2

Maybe because I had just heard of a new business in Central Ohio - Home Stagers Supply I was more prone to noticing the headline on the  miOaklandCounty.com site.  Or perhaps I would have noticed it anyway.

Susan of Home Stagers Supply is a brand new member of ActiveRain (a real estate network) I am not sure if Susan will be talking to the general public about the importance of staging, talking to home stagers or talking to Central Ohio Realtors about home staging. Maybe all of it.

I am tuned in.... to whatever Susan has to say.

Home Staging #2

I am not a HomeGain fan (member for a real short time years ago, it was different management, same brand... the HomeGain logo gives me the heebie jeebies... whatever heebie jeebies are) so I hate to even send you there but I was confused by why staging was #2 on the list.

I needed a graph on the HomeGain blog to help me understand the ranking of number 2 is because home staging has the second highest return on home investment.  The number of real estate agents recommeding staging is much lower than some of the other recommendations in the HomeGain survey.

HomeGain 2009 Top 12 home improvements survey results 

There is a graph on the HomeGain site that helps me understand why home staging is number two. The rating is the all important return on investement. The investment is the second best return on investment to cleaning and decluttering your home.

#2 is  using an investment of $300.00 for home staging.

Hmmm is $300 enough? Home staging depending on how much help and materials you need may be low.

Marianne Sweet home stager  (we are motoring back up to Metro Detroit area top link in the post if you care to come along for the ride....  miOaklandCounty.com blog) says:

"I have already had an agent ask if $300 for Home Staging is realistic.  The answer is yes, a $300 Home Staging can make a major improvement in the way an occupied house shows.   Call a Home Stager for more details."

Try harder - #2 the point of home staging is to make your home #1

Many, many , many of the other 11 items on the HomeGain list are about home staging...

cleaning / decluttering

painting

carpet replacing

kitchen updating

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