Wednesday Series: Why Staged Homes Don’t Sell. In the series, I am going to cover:

  1. What A Well Staged Home Does for a Sale
  2. How Listing Agents Unintentionally Sabotage Their Own Staged Listings
  3. What is the Seller’s Problem?!
  4. How A Stager Can Potentially Kill Your Deal
  5. Other Real Estate Professionals’ Play in the Mud Too

A staged home can be the answer to selling houses. BUT It’s only a marketing tool that is as effective as how someone uses it, or if it’s fundamentally a sound solution to begin with. There are 3 causes that a stager can potentially kill the sale by providing inappropriate staging to the home. They are: unqualified, inexperience, and have really no clue what staging is.

Unqualified: My good friend Linda R once said “Not all stagers are created equal” and she really nailed it on the head. Everyone had different training and backgrounds, and sad to say that some even don’t have trainings nor backgrounds. I receive emails or calls all the time from budding stagers. It generally goes as (Click here to Read more on how stagers can hurt a sale …)
 

3 Comments on How A Stager Can Potentially Kill Your Deal

A lot of people look for the quick fix. Hey, let's get a stager and our home will sell in seconds! They fail to take the precaution of checking credentials and references, and they live to regret it.

11/13/2007 05:59 AM by Rosario Lewis, GRI ~ DDR Realty, Orange County, NY (DDR Realty)

Cindy, you are at it again. What a wonderful series. Looks like you have got your act together. You go girl!

11/13/2007 07:17 AM by Yvonne Root Northern Arizona Home Stager (rooms b.y. root)

I'm looking forward to it!

11/22/2007 08:49 AM by Kristina, KFM Staging & Design - A Minnesota Home Staging Company (KFM Staging & Design)

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