How To Avoid Seeing The Things That No One Should See.
I have at my resources a very talented Interior Decorator who I call on from time to time to help my Valued Sellers to prepare their home for touring. As Shelley shares below, with proper staging a Seller may not need to do a price reduction when the home is price appropriate for the market-place...
In real estate staging, or home staging, we stagers see things we shouldn't see (and really don't want to see.) Real estate agents and prospective home buyers also see all kinds of things that they wish they hadn't. Since many, many a great blog has been shared about this on Active Rain, I will let you remember some of the humorous and sometimes horrible examples, so I won't go into detail.
One thing a home owner should see before they agree to a price reduction (assuming that the home is fairly priced to begin with,) is a home staging professional. Actually many of the afore mentioned things we shouldn't see could be avoided if only the home owner had consulted with a home stager prior to listing the home. It could be as simple as decluttering, or addressing that strange, lingering odor that only an outsider can detect.
Often, as in the case of nicely decorated homes, lived in for 20 plus years, some gentle, but firm suggestions about updating are needed. Heavy custom drapes with big cornices, harvest gold anything, and precious family photos should be packed away. Stagers can kindly, but persuasively suggest such changes. It's our specialty. We are trained and experienced in this.
All homes should have the advantage of some aspect of professional home staging, be it a simple consultation about what the owner can do to spiff it up before listing it, or a full staging job by a home stager.
So, home owners, before you agree to a price reduction of thousands of dollars, consider investing between 0.5% to 3% of your home's sales price on professional staging help. It's your money. It's your call. Before you drop the price make one simple call to your local home stager. Save yourselves and the buying public from seeing what shouldn't be seen.
Here are some examples of happy sellers who did just that Happy because their homes SOLD!
Linda Thompson
Fresno, CA- home staging and redesign services
Selling By Design-Staging
Selling By Design-Staging specializes in giving homes an edge on the competition by creating atmospheres that are appealing, inviting and that say to potential buyers "Welcome home." For more information we invite you to visit our web site at http://www.sellingbydesign-staging.net
linda@sellingbydesign-staging.com
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