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Wouldn't It Be Best To Have More Money In Your Pocket

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Home Stager with Room By Room

I went through all the real estate listings today in my area and was shocked to see homes that were not viewer ready but up for sale.  How do you educate real estate agents and home owners that we as Home Stagers are their friends.  We want to help them make more money by raising the value of the homes they are selling and help them sell faster! 

I simply can't understand why home sellers would rather drop the price of their homes thousands of dollars (if their home doesn't sell in X number of days) instead of spending a few hundred to have their homes staged to make thousands of dollars more than they could have in the first place.  I visited a home during an open house a few months back.  The home was not staged and was over crowded with furniture and too much memorabilia for perspective buyers to see themselves living there.  I told the real estate agent the home was lovely and in a great area of town, but it felt too small with such large amounts of furniture and it could use some de-cluttering.  She said she would pass the advice on to her clients.  I received a phone call from the real estate agent telling me her clients thought they couldn't afford to loose any of their furniture or put anything in storage as they still had to live there.   They didn't feel they could afford to have a Home Stager come in and consult with them.  Guess what?  The home is still on the market two months later and has dropped $30,000.  What a costly mistake.

Home Stagers want to help bring the value of your home up to its full potential and put more money in your pocket.  Lets work together as real estate professionals and home stagers as a team to bring the best out in homes being sold.

YOU ONLY GET ONE CHANCE FOR FIRST IMPRESSIONS 

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Dorie Dillard Austin TX
Coldwell Banker Realty ~ 512.750.6899 - Austin, TX
NW Austin ~ Canyon Creek and Spicewood/Balcones

Hi Karen, 

You are so right! Many sellers just don't understand the value of coming on looking s good as you can! I will take sellers to their competition and show them how the homes are staged and seeing is believing!

Apr 22, 2010 08:30 AM