Preparing Your NM Home For Sale? Think Builders Model Home

Great advice and great video, too! I just wish all sellers would listen the FIRST time when you tell them this!

What! I've been doing it all wrong leaving out last nights dishes! Great post & really the best example of why you should put your best foot forward when selling your home.

Staging a home is so important in getting top dollar for the home.

Reminds me of an upscale home in prime location. Everything was beautiful except the price. Fast forward, it was foreclosed on. Now at half the price, it still had a hard time to get under contract. Why? Because you could see every little maintenance deferment. Maybe if the former owner had done those, it might have saved his home.

National homebuilders certainly do have their finger on the pulse of what buyers are sensitive and looking for in their next home. If only more homesellers would tour these homes and apply some of the ideas they would realize higher selling prices or shorter selling times.

Hi John, I am late coming over today, but you Hit this one out of the Park, My Friend. I see you are making that commitment to do more videos, and this one was Great! Nothing sells better than a Model Home. Most buyers cannot even visualize an empty home with nothing in it.

Amazing how homeowners will list their homes with a high price yet not invest in staging their home to get the higher price they are seeking, isn't it? Are listing agents just as culpable concerning this issue?

Great Advice John, I never thought to take tours of model homes for ideas, maybe we need to take a few tours of the nicer homes to get ideas.

MY world class interior design daughter served her internship working for one of the biggest model home stagers in the USA for a couple of years before starting her own company. She swears that it's probably the single biggest reason she became so successful so fast. Not trying to promote or advertise her. I'm just proud of her accomplishments and your post hit a nerve. Hope you don't mind me sharing.  Her website: www.intimatelivinginteriors.com

In our area there are no model homes to tour, so sellers would do well to hire a stager. In addition to everything else they do, they know how to draw focus to a home's best features.

Good info.  I'll use it in my next listing presentation tomorrow.

John~ you're so right, taking pointers from the professionals is very smart, they definitely know what they are doing...exactly like you! Great advice and worth a feature for sizzle.

Great post! I often tell my clients that since they are moving, might as well get ahead on packing and making the home appear more spacious, less cluttered and less personal.  Staging definitely helps in creating the "model home" look.

John, great advice and video... congrats on the feature and your new listings...keep on rockin'

John:

Nice video.  We should accompany our sellers through a model home so they will get the message.  They may be overwhelmed, but they will see the desirability of presenting their home as a "model home". 

I worked in model homes for years and yes that is a great idea!!!!!!!!!!!111

John, you have great advice.  However, in Northeast OH, we still have only a few model homes. 

Love the photo you provided. Isn't funny the agent didn't even try to clean the clutter before taking the picture?