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Staging your home for sale

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Real Estate Agent with Remax Estate Properties - BRE #01368971

What is Staging?:

Staging your home means presenting your home to potential buyers in the best possible light in order to make a lasting impression with them. It is all about creating a first impression of the home that will lead to a quick sale. Buyers tend to develop their opinion of a home immediately upon driving up to it and develop a lasting impression of a home within the first five seconds that they enter the house. Staging is meant to broaden the appeal of your home to the greatest number of potential buyers possible.

Staging Steps:

Declutter:
  Buyers like homes with a bright and open feeling to them. Store all of your knick-knacks and most of your books, and get rid of any extraneous things that are lying around your home.

Depersonalize: When a buyer tours your home, they need to be able to visualize the home as being their home, not yours. Even though you love the family portraits hanging on the walls, store them away.

Cleaning:  This does not mean your normal cleaning. It means a top to bottom deep cleaning. Your home should sparkle!

Landscaping: Your buyer's first introduction to your home is your landscaping. This is called "curb appeal" and is extremely important to making that all important first impression.

Decorating and Accessorizing: A simple rearrangement of your furniture pieces may be all that is required to improve the feeling of openess in your room, and to change a visitors focal point of the room.

What does Staging Costs:  Staging a home does not have to be expensive to be effective.For homes that are vacant, however, a professional staging company may be engaged to temporarily furnish a home. These costs can range from $5,000 to $15,000 depending on the size of the home.

For additional tips on Staging Your Home  to sell, visit my website at http://www.maureenmegowan.com

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