This may sound like a crazy idea, but I have a question to throw out to mortgage professionals - With the onslaught of bank-owned homes now, because of the foreclosure crises, wouldn't it be in the best interests of the bank to hire a home stager to evaluate a home and make recommendations about what needs to be done to the home to enhance it and make it more marketable?
I visited a home today that was a foreclosure - and I have to say one of the most beautiful homes I have ever seen - well, at least in the eyes of a stager. There are issues with the home, some simply cosmetic, that I think could have been addressed and taken care of if the mortgage company had enlisted the help of a professional home stager. The tragedy is that this house has been sitting on the market, owned by the bank, for long time.
I know mortgage companies would like to re-coupe their losses, and I've been in many homes that are on the market due to foreclosures, and there has typically been no effort on anyone's part to clean, much less stage these houses. It seems to me like banks could ask and receive a higher price for these homes if a little effort were put into making them more marketable.
What do you think?
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