A recent National Geographic special, Stress: Portrait Of A Killer, discusses how chronic stress is threatening our lives. Stress has been linked to many diseases, including heart disease.
We all have our share of stress, but with the state of today's real estate market, home sellers and their Realtors are getting hit especially hard. Selling a house is one of today's top stress triggers.
Financial burden, years of accumulation to sort through, and a list of projects to complete to prepare the house for sale can be extremely stressful.
Stress builds when sellers don't have a clue where to begin, which rooms should be a priority, or what improvements would yield the best return on their investment.
Many homeowners, finding the process totally overwhelming, transfer responsibility to their Realtor whose job description shouldn't include cleaning out and organizing the closets, finding a new home for the doll collection, or shopping for new bedding.
Transforming the "overwhelming" into manageable is what professional home staging is all about.
Just as a coach or trainer instructs and guides on strategy and game plan, the home stager creates a complete plan of attack with clear step-by-step instruction to systematically prepare the home for sale.
Having a home stager's guidance and direction will:
- Increase a seller's inspiration and motivation to do what needs to be done
- Decrease stress for the seller
- Decrease stress for the realtor, who can then concentrate on more important things
- Insure better photographs for MLS
Whether you think of a home stager as a real estate consultant, property stylist, space organizing guru, home preparation coach, or even your own personal fairy godmother... consider them the authority on the packaging of the house. A stagers involvement, in addition to easing the pressure on the seller, enables the Realtor to put all their attention on the marketing of the house.
Having the right professionals packaging and marketing your house for sale is a guaranteed way to eliminate stress. Eliminating stress could save your life.
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