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The Number 1 Real Estate Mistake

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Home Stager with Home Staging by Amie

25 Biggest Real Estate Mistakes, which was also a television program by the same name.

The #1 mistake: Failing to showcase your home and make cosmetic changes. To put it another way, failure to stage the home for sale is the worst mistake a seller can make.

Here's what the article had to say:

When you are selling your house, you have to really look at it objectively and think about it from the viewpoint of the house hunter. Make minor enhancements to the house and maybe hire a professional stager to come and arrange your furniture.

Staging is about decorating your house for the buyers' taste, not yours. A great place to start is with the front of the home and the main entryway.

Home staging is designed to increase the potential selling price and reduce the amount of time the house stays on the market.

Realtor, don't be guilty of allowing your seller to make what HGTV called the No. 1 mistake. Encourage them to stage the home. The follow article will help you overcome objections to staging homeowners may raise.

Jennifer Fivelsdal
JFIVE Home Realty LLC | 845-758-6842|162 Deer Run Rd Red Hook NY 12571 - Rhinebeck, NY
Mid Hudson Valley real estate connection

Staging a house makes such a difference, this point is lost on some sellers as they continue to see the house the way they like it instead of making needed changes so it will appeal to a buyer

May 26, 2008 01:16 PM
Ernie & Barb Suto
Century 21 Preferred Realty - Pompton Lakes, NJ

Oh, we agree with you.  We have one house that needs staging so bad, beautiful house, but has really nothing in, including warmth.  The sellers are not in a financial position to make the changes we suggested, but for the amount of time & money we have already spent on it, we probably could have done something......Its too bad the buyers cannot visualize. 

May 26, 2008 01:30 PM