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Selling Your House Shouldn't Shorten Your Life

By
Home Stager with Sharon Tara Transformations

 

hasty burialSelling a house is one of today's top stress triggers.  With the state of today's real estate market, home sellers are faced with financial burden and overwhelming home improvement projects that weren't typical in years past.

Stress has been linked to many diseases, including heart disease.

Stress builds when sellers, faced with years of accumulation, don't have a clue where to begin, don't know which rooms should be a priority, or what improvements would yield the best return on their investment.

  

A consultation with a home staging professional before listing can save you from a consultation with a medical professional after listing your house.

Like a coach creating a game plan, the home stager creates a plan of attack, complete with step-by-step instructions to systematically prepare the home for sale.  Professional home stagers transform the "overwhelming" into manageable.  

Whether you consider a home stager to be a real estate consultant, property stylist, organizing guru, home preparation coach, or even your own personal fairy godmother...

you should consider them the authority on the preparation and packaging  of your house for sale. 

A home staging consult will decrease stress for both the seller and their agent.

A stager's involvement, in addition to easing pressure on the seller, enables the Realtor to put all their attention on the marketing of the house.  Having the right professionals packaging and marketing your house for sale is a guaranteed way to eliminate stress. 

 Eliminating stress could save your life. 

 

Comments(32)

Silvia Dukes PA, Broker Associate, CRS, CIPS, SRES
Tropic Shores Realty - Ich spreche Deutsch! - Spring Hill, FL
Florida Waterfront and Country Club Living

Sharon, that's good advice well stated.  A professional can take the stress out of so many things and when it comes to big decisions, it's even more important.

Sep 21, 2010 12:52 PM
Cindy Bryant
Redesign Etc. Home Staging - Houston, TX
"Houston Home Staging Pros"

Moving is extremely stressfull!  Here's a new slogan, A Home Stager is Less Than The Cost of A Doctors Vist!

Sep 21, 2010 04:08 PM
Cindy Bryant
Redesign Etc. Home Staging - Houston, TX
"Houston Home Staging Pros"

I also re-blogged and am suggesting!

Sep 21, 2010 05:22 PM
Pamela Seley
West Coast Realty Division - Murrieta, CA
Residential Real Estate Agent serving SW RivCo CA

Sharon, love your analogy.  We could all use a little less stress in our lives.  Great post,

Sep 21, 2010 05:46 PM
Cathy Lee
CL Design Services Home Staging - Danville, CA
ASP, IAHSP, RESA Danville, CA

Oh I love your graphic-this is priceless and so is your analogy!! Great one Sharon!! How true that we do make moving so less stressful in many aspects for all involved.

Sep 21, 2010 06:04 PM
Maureen Bray Portland OR Home Stager ~ Room Solutions Staging
Room Solutions Staging, Portland OR - Portland, OR
"Staging Consultations that Sell Portland Homes"

Life is stressful enough without the added pressure of trying to sell your home in such a tough market.  Great analogy!  I'd much rather make an appointment with a home stager than my doctor!!

Sep 21, 2010 06:40 PM
Elite Home Sales Team
Elite Home Sales Team OC - Corona del Mar, CA
A Tenacious and Skilled Real Estate Team

Very well put thank you for the stress elimination talk.

Sep 21, 2010 07:04 PM
Kathleen Emhof
Buffalo, Amherst, Orchard Park and Western New York - Buffalo, NY
Home Staging and Redesign, Experts in Transition

Sharon, I chuckled when I saw your graphic--but it was SO appropriate! 

All of us stagers want to make that move as stress-free as possible.  If you went to see a dentist for a toothache, and (s)he told you to get a filling, you'd get that filling!

In a way, we are like "house dentists".  The benefit to the homeowner is to get that home sold so quickly, they don't have a moment to feel stressed.

Thanks for a great post!

Sep 22, 2010 12:47 AM
Gabe Sanders
Real Estate of Florida specializing in Martin County Residential Homes, Condos and Land Sales - Stuart, FL
Stuart Florida Real Estate

Sharon, I love this post and have suggested it for a feature.  It's so true in so many ways.

Sep 22, 2010 01:14 AM
Scott Hayes
(512) 786-8300 - Austin, TX
Realty Austin, Broker Associate

Sharon,

 

Selling can be particularly stressful when combined with some of the more common reasons:

 

Marriage, divorce, death, job relocation etc.

Sep 22, 2010 01:51 AM
Janice Ankrett
Burlington, ON
Staging Professional

Well said Sharon. I suggest!

Sep 22, 2010 04:04 AM
Karen Otto
Home Star Staging - Plano, TX
Plano Home Staging, Dallas Home Staging, www.homes

The message and visual alone is cryptic without even reading the post (which I did!) but so true! We can help eliminate some of that stress for sure! I've flagged for a feature too Sharon!

Sep 22, 2010 04:41 AM
Sharon Tara
Sharon Tara Transformations - Portsmouth, NH
Retired New Hampshire Home Stager

Kathy:  True, staging saves money as well as reduces stress.

Roger & Debbie:  I'm glad you like the picture, it's a bit dramatic, but I love it!

Silvia:  Just having someone tell you what needs to be done and facing you in the right direction can take so much of the pressure off. 

Cindy:  Great new slogan!  Thanks for the reblog and the suggest, I appreciate both!

Pamela:  It's so important to put your effort into the right improvements and not waste time and energy on things that really won't matter.

Cathy:  Now, don't let the pressure of saving lives become too much for you!

 

Sep 22, 2010 06:24 AM
Sharon Tara
Sharon Tara Transformations - Portsmouth, NH
Retired New Hampshire Home Stager

Maureen:  A staging consult is more pleasant than a doctor visit.  We don't make them take their clothes off and sit and wait!

 

Sep 22, 2010 06:25 AM
Sharon Tara
Sharon Tara Transformations - Portsmouth, NH
Retired New Hampshire Home Stager

Elite Home:  Thank you!

Kathleen:  "House dentists" is a great analogy!  We are much less painful though!

Gabe:  I appreciate it, thank you so much!

Scott:  True, family situation can add so much more stress!  A professional stager will also address things that could give away that information to potential buyers and cause a low offer.  If buyers sense there is a divorce or family problem situation, and they suspect the seller is desperate..a low offer gets made.

Janice:  I thank you!

Karen:  I like that word "cryptic" and I thank you for suggesting.

 

Sep 22, 2010 06:59 AM
Ginger Foust
Certified Staging Professional - Oakhurst, CA
Home Stager Oakhurst CA, Dream Interior Redesign & Staging

Sharon, it seems that everything about todays real estate market is stressful and your blog makes good points on how we can help take away some of that stress.  Great job!

Sep 22, 2010 07:39 AM
Sharon Tara
Sharon Tara Transformations - Portsmouth, NH
Retired New Hampshire Home Stager

Ginger:  Thank you!

Sep 23, 2010 03:40 AM
Marianne Cherico
Interiors by Marianne Cherico - Foxboro, MA
Home Stager -Massachusetts and Rhode Island

Sharon,

It is stressful selling a house! But it is really much more stressful to prolong the pain and have to prepare and show it for months because Buyers aren't nibbling. Staging and pricing the house right help solve that problem!

Love the graphics!

Hope you are well!

Marianne

Sep 24, 2010 10:38 AM
Leslie Helm
Tennessee Recreational Properties - Jamestown, TN
Real Estate For Trail Riders

Hi, Sharon. You make a strong case for home staging..hard to resist.

I like Kathleen's comment (#20)!

Sep 25, 2010 08:58 AM
Sharon Tara
Sharon Tara Transformations - Portsmouth, NH
Retired New Hampshire Home Stager

Marianne:  That's exactly what most sellers don't understand...they prolong their own agony! 

Leslie:  I thank you and I like her comment too! 

Sep 25, 2010 11:30 AM