In the business of selling homes? Lead time is a necessary ingredient for the success of the sale!
Also, if you are looking to hire a professional home stager in your area, it is so vital to understand that this lead time is often necessary not only for the home stager & their schedule but the home seller and their home prep work. Unless you are absolutely certain that the house is only going to take minor tweaking (and I've been in homes where I was told there "wasn't much to do" and the listing didn't go live for a month after I visited), less than one week's lead time is often not enough for everyone involved.
Selling a home is not only a very emotional process for most home sellers, it's physically taxing and often time consuming work that is involved to prepare the home (and the seller) for the sale. As one of my Realtors has said, "Apple doesn't rush products to market, why should a Realtor?"
It's best to make it right the first time BEFORE photos are taken. Don't forget, those photos are the first showing!
This Dallas, Texas home for sale was not ready for selling when I first provided a 2 hour home staging consultation to the seller (the first of several as we managed the expectations, time line and scope of the project with the home seller) After almost 2 months of prep work and contractor finish-outs (including a part time summer job for two college boys who provided the manpower of moving boxes and items out of the house) this home was ready for sale!
Result?
Sold in a week for a cash offer!
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