Preparing Your Home for Sale-Boca Raton-What to Do First!

Preparing Your Home for Sale-Boca Raton-What to Do First!

Before you place that “For Sale” sign in your front yard, here are some Home Staging Tips to help you prepare your home for sale in Boca Raton.   Here’s what you need to do first!

STOP  thinking of your home.... the place where you watched your children grow up...... where you learned how to decorate a palm tree for the holidays.... as your home.  
 

START thinking of it as a house... a product that you with the guidance of your Realtor and Home Stager are going to market.  

You’re not alone... we all have a problem thinking of our home as walls and space, paint and flooring.  But that’s how your Buyers will see it.  

You want them to see the possibilities of your space; see themselves living their lives in this space.....not your space.  

First Step- View your house as Buyers would.  More than 85% of today’s Buyers begin their search on the Internet.... that translates to your MLS photos and those on your Realtors website.  

Start by taking photos of your house.... the exterior; front entry; take a shot right at the front door as if you were just walking into your house.

Take a photo of each room at the doorway, and don’t forget your backyard or patio area.  
 

Now upload these to your computer and take a look!
 

Would you want to schedule a viewing of your house? Viewing a house through a camera lens gives it a new and

enlightening look!

Step Two- This is where you need to put on your thick skin and realize it’s all with the goal of preparing your house for sale.

Ask a good friend (or even a not-so-good friend), neighbor, relative and bribe them with cookies, dinner, cake or whatever to give you an honest opinion about your house and how it would appear to them if they were buying a house.
 

Remind them why you are asking them this and that it may be the only occasion when they’ll have the opportunity to tell you how much they can’t stand the “windmill in your dining room” or the leopard wall you painted in the entry.
 

Do they feel you have so much furniture in your house that you can’t “see” the room?  
 

Do they think that the house is clean and neat but looks dated?
 

Remember...thick skin and be objective.  

If you’re preparing your home for sale in Boca Raton take the first step and start looking at it as a Buyer would!  

And for a trained objective view, call your Professional Home Stager.   Our Staging Consultation can give you the tools to help you prepare your home for sale and get it sold!