Objections to Home Staging Advice

I totally agree with your pushbacks on those staging complaints.  When selling a home, it really needs to be made to look as close as possible to a model home.  

This is a great blog!  If the seller can't understand and see the value that you're bringing to the table, it sounds like they may not be that motivated.  I'm going to tweet this out if you don't mind.  

Suzanne, sellers need to see their home from a buyer's perspective, if they want to sell. Good post!

Anything can be argued for or against...A different system is needed for the different applications...Home staging has a definitive purpose and gives good results

Hi Suzanne,

It is all about Saleability over style, I have never understood why sellers want make "their product" hard to sell just by not taking the advise from those that do this for a living....

Great timing on this post, Suzanne!  I recently dealt with two different sellers with most (!) of these same issues.  While one was willing to paint out the pink kitchen walls, she just didn't understand why the blue faux finished Master Bedroom walls should also be painted.  Hopefully I won her over; we'll see!  Our real message is:  Do you want to sell NOW or after three months and price reductions?

I is a great post I can only say we have had great success in staging a property!

I've been guilty of this in my own home, for crying out loud, and I know better. When I sold my last house, I did not paint the family room and left it white. Too busy. Another agent pointed out that I should paint it a color to complement the scheme throughout and paint an accent wall in the living room, and wham, it sold immediately after I painted.

Great post Suzanne!

Great article!  I've heard at least of couple of those myself.  I may print this out and give to clients when considering to take on their listing.

This is a very useful post.  More sellers need to put themselves in the shoes of buyers.  For example, how many buyers are going to enjoy looking at a closet jam packed with clothes.  It's time to de-clutter before placing a home on the market rather than after it's sold!

Nice post Suzanne and timely for me.  We started thinking of selling our home in 2012 and now the time is near that we will put it on the market.  I have cleaned out, re-organized, de-cluttered, taken furniture out and rearranged.  We painted the entire inside of the house, including the inside of cabinets in the bathrooms (they are white).  We had new stone tile put in the two baths and a very nice vinyl in the utility room.  New appliances but not enough money do redo the counter-tops.  It all looks really nice and all drawers and cabinets are neat and tidy with no junk.  It is difficult to see what needs to be done sometimes without the eyes and experience of someone else so a home stagers such as yourself are a gift.  Thanks for the post as I said timely.

Hmm, very interesting post, Suzanne. I do not have the same experience at all where I am, (Central New York). Every seller I have dealt with in my region is totally on board with the home staging process, and thankfully I have never experienced the "push back" that you write of. I agree with you on all the points you make, and congratulate you on successfully educating sellers everywhere!

Good post! Sounds a bit like what I've said to sellers over the years. Always good advice.

Suzanne, this is a great post.  People don't really understand.  I have to resort to the fact that they will clean and detail their car....well do the same to your home.