When you put your Burlington home on the market, it becomes a product. Seeing your home as a product means setting aside all your memories and emotions attached to it. That's very hard to do.

Your lifestyle is interwoven into every room. It determined the colors you chose and the placement of the furniture.

Your family grew and so did your possessions.

Your life got busier and you learned to 'live' with things until later.

Now you want to sell and the focus of the house must change from you to the buyer.

Calling a Stager for a consult will give you the buyer's point of view. The Stager has no emotional attachment to the home. It is merely a house that a client wants to sell. The Stager brings Buyer's eyes that give you an independent view of your home.

The Stager's report will tell you:

  • if there is any deferred maintenance like missing light bulbs, missing or damaged vent covers, chipped or peeling paint, cracked plaster, damaged screens etc. that will raise red flags for a buyer.
  • if the light fixtures in your home will impact your sale. Updating light fixtures can bring a space into fashion again.
  • if the current use of a room is the best for selling.
  • if the traffic flow through the house is tight making the house feel smaller.
  • if key areas like the kitchen, bathrooms and master bedroom need work to appeal to buyers.
  • if your house looks tired. You don't want the buyer to feel your home needs a lot of work.
  • if that extra chair that helps you all watch TV should be moved or removed.
  • if your home will appeal to the type of buyer looking for your type of home.

Yes, a Stager can give you the honest truth about your home that even your friends aren't comfortable telling you.

Along with this 'truth' will come solutions and a plan of action to help your home compete in today's market.

Call for a Staging Consult today and see your home through Buyers' eyes.

 

 

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That's right Kevin. We Professionals are out there waiting to help.
11:49am • #14
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Gail, sellers need to make their home appeal to as many different buyers as possible.
11:50am • #15
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Janice:  It is so surprising to Sellers when a stager points some changes to them.  As you said, they have learned to live with everything in the house and the bent shower curtain rod and the loose stair-rail are invisible.  
11:51am • #16
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Ginger, we all have our homes in 'living mode'. The trick is knowing how to transform it into 'selling mode' so that you reach as many buyers as possible.
11:53am • #17
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Love the before and after shots. Prime example of what a little tidy up can do to first impressions.
11:59am • #18
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Janice - it's reported that only 10% (most of which are stagers and interior designers like YOU) have the ability to see beyond an empty, or cluttered room filled with outdated furniture and accessories. This is why staging is so important, taking the guess work out for the other 90% of buyers by highlighting the home's best architectural features, decluttering and giving it mass appeal. Once again you've done a GREAT job of showing and explaining this very important concept! Congrats on the well deserved feature GF!
12:05pm • #19
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Janice, I'm not a stager, but I've seen and sold enough homes to give a little more than the "basic" advice to my sellers. If needed, I have no problem bringing in a stager!
4:56pm • #20
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Congrats on a well deserved Feature, Janice!  A professional home stager is the one to turn to for the honest truth....like it or not....the honest truth!
5:12pm • #21
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Janice - SO TRUE!  Sellers (and listing agents, for that matter) can greatly benefit from an impartial stager, who can make sure their home (and listing!) appeals to the widest range of potential buyers!
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Janice -- very nicely done.  It is important to have a home look its very best.
8:21pm • #23
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Janice:

Sellers need an unbiased eye of a stager to give them the advice they need to make their home the look the best it can be when it is on the market.  When they put it on the market, they should not look at it as their home, but a commodity that they need to maintain to get the best price so they can move on with their life.
9:36pm • #24
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Janice - The truth and a plan of action sound like a great way to get a home ready.
11:58pm • #25
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Sarah, we changed it from a yoga room to a bedroom with a touch of teen.
4:34pm • #26
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Thanks Kristine! Yes, many of my clients freely admit that they can't see past what's there in the homes they have looked at. This makes them more willing to stage.
4:36pm • #27
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That's great Eric! Experience is a great teacher ;). We stagers also make it possible to get the message across without doing it yourself.
4:38pm • #28
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Sharon, that's our job ;). I have Realtors that won't go in without me. They much prefer that I tell the truth for them.
4:39pm • #29
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Sharon, by widening the house's appeal we increase the seller's chance for success!
4:41pm • #30
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Thanks Joan! Every house has to compete or the listing will go stale as the house sits on the market.
4:43pm • #31
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Very true Evelyn! It can be very hard for Sellers to start detaching themselves from their home so they can look at it as a commodity for sale.
4:45pm • #32
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Christine, one is no good without the other. We are not there to critique the Seller's lifestyle, we are there to switch them into selling mode.
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