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Home Staging Tip For Sellers: Capitalize On Your Closets

Reblogger Michelle Francis
Real Estate Agent with Tim Francis Realty LLC

Sharon offers a great tip on Home Staging Tips that folks might overlook!  Clean out those closets.   Let's face it, when prospective Buyers open the closet doors (and they will if they are considering buying the house), they want to see space and not a packed mess.  Folks want to feel like the closet will work for them. 

If you are considering selling your home, please clean out your closets.  The return will be a possible sale and less stuff to move!

 

Original content by Sharon Tara

 

 Home Staging Tip For Sellers:  Capitalize on Your Closets.  Every closet, cabinet and drawer in your home has the potential to impress a buyer.   Home Staging isn't just about furniture, paint color and fresh towels.

 Home staging is about creating a perception of value in the minds of potential buyers. 

Advertisers spend a lot of time, effort and money making their products appealing.  Every image, color and font is specifically chosen to be attractive to buyers and to make the product stand out from the competition. It's no different when selling your house.  If you want buyers to choose your home over the others on the market, you need to make sure it's more appealing and more memorable.

One seldom used strategy for appealing to buyers is impressing them with organization.

closet

 

Clean, organized cabinets and closets send a message to buyers that a very organized, meticulous person lives there.

The entire house is then perceived as being well maintained.

 

 

It really isn't that much extra work...consider it a headstart on your packing.

Take one room or closet at a time.

Remove all off-season clothing.

Pull out everything you don't use on a daily basis.

 

Divide into three piles...

1.  Trash  

   2.  Donate  

   3. Pre-pack

All remaining items should be arranged neatly, putting like items together and storing small items in matching storage containers. 

Having labels facing out will create an even greater sense of order.

 

Make sure closet floors are free of clutter, swept, and clean.

Make sure cabinet shelves are clean and either painted or covered with shelf liner. 

Wipe all drawers in kitchen and bathrooms with a damp cloth.  Don't forget to clean out medicine cabinets.

Hire a cleaning service or professional Home Stager to do the work for you, if you prefer. 

 

Your competition will not be making the extra effort ... giving you the advantage.  

So, why not capitalize on your closets?

 

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Tim Francis Realty, Serving Buckhead, Atlanta & Sandy Springs GA

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Michelle * former clients have the 1-800-Got-Junk franchise locally and I have a supply of their 10% off coupons.  I provide them to would-be clients and in my resident handbooks for incoming residents....so they don't have to move junk TWICE!

Jul 23, 2011 02:10 PM
Gayle Rich-Boxman Fishhawk Lake Real Estate
John L Scott Market Center - Birkenfeld, OR
"Your Local Expert!" 503-739-3843

It's amazing sometimes, how silly sellers can be AND naive....as if people will NOT look into "what's behind that door".

So...look forward to being an ambassador someday?  Great goal to shoot for!

Jul 24, 2011 12:33 PM
Sharon Tara
Sharon Tara Transformations - Portsmouth, NH
Retired New Hampshire Home Stager

Thank you so much for the reblog, glad you found it share worthy!  Love Wallace's idea of handing out coupons for "Got Junk"!

Jul 25, 2011 05:21 AM