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Articles
Staging Your Home for Resale.
Is
staging your home when putting it up for sale really necessary? The answer is an
emphatic "'yes." Consider this: when you stand in line at the
grocery store or browse through the magazine section in a bookstore,
how many magazines are dedicated solely to the appearance of a
home-- how it's decorated, or staged. Decorating magazines
will command a large part of that store's shelf space. That's
because most women (and many men) love to look at those pictures of
warm, inviting, beautifully decorated rooms. But are those photos
the way our homes look? The way we really live?
(Continue the article on staging your home for resale)
When In Doubt, Throw It Out.
When I give home staging advice to sellers, the first thing I do is go through their home and look over every room to get a feel for what I’m working with. Then I go back to the front door and give the homeowner a “play by play” for each area on what to change. And 95% of what I tell sellers is, “get rid of this.” (I do try to say it as nicely as possible though!) Read the rest of this article.
Tips for Showing Your Home
More years ago than I care to think about, I was a training manager for a well-known national restaurant chain. One of my duties was to teach our servers how to suggestive sell. As we used to say, “you sell the sizzle, not the steak.” It’s the same with selling your home. Read the rest of this article.
Big Furniture, Little Tchotchkies
If this describes your living room or family room, you are a typical homeowner. And if you have multiple small tchotchkies sitting on every surface and hanging all over the walls, you are certainly in the majority. But it doesn’t work for selling your home. All a potential buyer will see is how crowded and small the rooms look and how much “stuff” you own. (Read all the article here.)
Why Stage Your Home?
Imagine your least favorite color. Now imagine walking into a home for sale that features that very color. I'm willing to bet that your first thought won't be, "Oh goody; I get to paint!"
A home on today's market must be as "personality neutral" as possible to attract the widest range of buyers.
Time and time again, I've seen it's been difficult for many of my clients to make the psychological leap out of their "comfort zone." It's understandably hard for them put away their loving personal mark on their home, their years of collecting cherished furnishings and their well-earned comfort found in familiar surroundings-- and to think as a buyer would as she walks into their home.
Why put obstacles in the path of an otherwise interested buyer?