Preparing to list your New Hampshire house for sale? Here's an important question you should answer first...what are you serving up to potential buyers?
Laraine Shape recently wrote a great post on her blog, Ralph's Real Estate Report, asking this question.
via Laraine Shape:
Is Your House a Boring School Lunch or a Gourmet Meal?
Remember meatloaf, instant mashed potatoes and peas day at school?
And dessert was fruit cocktail out of a can? And you thought to yourself, "Gross! You call that dessert? Where's the chocolate cake ?
Well, let me tell you a little secret. It's no different with houses. They're either a boring school lunch or a gourmet meal. Plain and simple.
Imagine that a buyer is coming in from Chicago. He's being transferred and has got 2 days to find a house. The Realtor is going to show him 20 houses (10 each day) and he has to make a choice before he leaves.
Which one do you think is going to make the cut?
The boring, slightly over-priced beige 2 story with a faint odor of dog, worn carpet (dotted with Coke dribbles here and there) and a ho-hum kitchen or the sexy, priced right 2 story that looks like a decorated model, smells fresh and clean and has a plate of freshly baked chocolate cupcakes on the kitchen counter with a "help yourself" note from the absent seller?
I don't know about you, but I'm picking the cupcakes!
If your house isn't selling you might want to ask yourself this:
1. Is it priced right?
2. Does it look like a sexy model or a fat old lunch lady?
Transforming your house from lunch lady to sexy model begins with a phone call. Call a professional home stager today and schedule your Home Staging Consultation.
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