Can you stage your own home for sale? Take this quiz and see how you do. Be honest with your answers; if you cheat, you may have to reduce your asking price $10,000 or more at the first price reduction!
- Can you describe who your buyers will most likely be?
- Can you create the style that will appeal to most of these buyers?
- Can you explain current trends in furniture style and colors?
- Can you arrange your furniture and accessories to highlight the best selling features in your home?
- Can you identify the "weaker" features of your home, and use creative problem solving to soften or improve their appearance?
- Can you do the selection and purchasing of the accessories needed to stage your home?
- Do you know how to arrange your new accessories to add drama to your home's listing photographs?
- Do you have the time to finish all staging work prior to listing your home?
- Will you follow through with staging your whole home without saying "that's good enough"?
- Do you believe that it is your responsibility to make sure your home shows well?
If you have ten "YES" answers, you CAN stage your own home!
Thank you Mary Helen Corcoran of Carey & Giampa Realty in New Hampshire for this referral. Staged First Impressions in NH is proud to be a part of your marketing team.
If you have a question about home staging and you can't find the answer here, please contact me, and I'd be happy to help you in any way I can.
To read more home staging blogs written by Sue Argue from Staged First Impressions:
- Painting the Town Red in Portsmouth, NH
- Carey & Giampa Realty, Seacoast New Hampshire
- Portsmouth NH's "Tree House Toys"
- My Successes & Failures Are Teaching Me
- What is Staged Photography?
- Home Sellers, Create Some Excitement and Get Your Home Sold!
- Sitting On the Market Too Long?
- Under Agreement 8 Days After Boosting Curb Appeal
- A Quality NH Realtor Website
- Foreclosures: Why Stage Them?
- Does This Look Good or What?
- Google Has a Sense of Humor
- Selling Your House? It's Not About You Anymore
- Real Estate Commission...Sellers, It's Not Always What You Think
- The Most Important Listing Photograph
- What is a Home Staging Consultation? Pros & Cons?
- Who Pays for Home Staging, the Agent or the Seller?
- What are they Saying in Coos County, New Hampshire?
- What is Considered Household Hazardous Waste?...When is My Town Picking Up HHW?
- You're Moving in NH...What to do With Your Household Hazardous Waste?
- Home Staging....Here's A Successful Marketing Tool
- Earth Day...Welcome to Active Rain...Burbank (Green) Construction of Providence, RI
- Looking for the Smartest Way to Sell Your Home in New Hampshire?
- The Best Spot to Post your Listing Photographs and Virtual Tours
- Myth: Realtors should be Professional Home Stagers & Professional Photographers too
- Maybe you CAN stage your own home... Take this quiz and find out
- Staging Commercial Properties in NH
- Creative Financing to get your Vacant Home Staged
- Home Staging Pictures from Greenland, NH...Before & After Gallery
- Home Staging in New Hampshire: the Benefits for Homeowners & Realtors
- ERA Teams up with Home Staging to market ALL of their GOLD STAR properties
- Home Staging Business owners...Identifying our Challenges in 2007...Realtors welcome
- How to Interview a Home Stager
- Photograph with ZOOM...show it off, sell it faster
- Are You Too Busy for Follow up?... For Success?
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- UNH Goes Green (my alma mater)
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