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1. Do your due diligence as a seller/agent to prep the home for sale: You don’t want to have this frown face when there are no offers on the table after 90 days on market. Britney drank every night before the performance and didn’t rehearse at all. And IT SHOWED. Her fans were more than disappointed, they turned on her on the blogging platform. Similarly, it shows when you didn’t prep the home for sale, it’s not going to bring your ideal open house traffic. Stage the house, power wash, clean it throughly, landscape it, do whatever you need to to get the home in top showing status. Let it be that shiny penny that the agents want to show, not the bottom feeder that every agent uses as the bad comp.
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2.Don’t overhype yourself. The week before Britney’s big comeback performance, the media kept talking about it, hyping it up: How great it’s going to be, Criss Angel is working with her on it, yada yada yada. Come the big show time, we see Britney flopping around in a less than attractive outfit, dancing like a zombie on screen. That’s why creating reasonable expectations for your buyers is very important. It’s very easy to be happy about something when it exceeds your expectations, at the same time, it will be harder to recover if you had a high expectation of something and it didn’t live up to its promise.
Case in point: Put yourself in your buyers’ shoes, what if this is the photo you saw online and it looks decent enough that you want to see it in person:
And this is what happened when you show up at the house? (Click here to read more at www.staged4more.com and see more Britney photos. Leave a comment or two while you are at the site! ;) )
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