STAGING A HOME TO SELL
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Do not allow your home to be seen by the public until its looks its very best. read more. 
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Dave Gallus (owner Premiere Plus) & Chris. Dave in conference.
What does stage your home mean -
It is not a good idea to present your home to the buying public, with out first making some special preparations. The home in which you live, has evolved into a place that is a very personal and special to you. It is not necessarily as appealing to everyone else. Everyone’s tastes are just very different from each other. The staging of your home means to change it in some ways to make it appealing to most everybody.
A set of principles and rules have been developed by home design and home selling professionals to accomplish this. When you worked to make your home just the way you loved it, you were truly decorating your home. You choose very special and unique wall and floor coverings and colors. You placed lamps and other objects that were your favorites. Now persons from all walks of life and with every kind of taste you can imagine, are going to be moving through your home.
When buyers go into your home, they should be there to evaluate a home’s physical features. But nevertheless they make judgments about your home’s decorating features. The purpose of staging your home is to overcome this human tendency, and force buyers to look at the home as if it could be their home. We need to make the home look large, bright, neutral, and impersonal.
Deane calls it making your home look cold on purpose.
Why should you stage your home - Because it is a way to put dollars in to your bank account. Here are some time-proven rules that apply. ·When you do not stage your home, the buyers never really have the chance to see your home for what it could be when it becomes their home.· When you do stage your home, it generates immediate buyer interest in your home, so the buyers do have the chance to see how your home may become their home.· When you do not stage your home, you tend to loose out to the competition, receiving no offers or low offers.·When you do stage your home, you tend to sell your home faster and for top dollar. You should stage your home to make it look very much different than the ordinary home that people live in. You want it to look big and airy and bright and squeaky clean. You do not want it to look small and crowded and dark. It is a good idea to not have anything in the home that will distract buyers from seeing the home. Your home has pluses and minuses, and you need to bring out the pluses and minimize the minuses. Your home should look better than other homes for sale. And above all, you want your home to work, and not be broken.
What is done to stage your home - We need to empty out some of the contents, make colors low key and neutral, place furniture to open up pathways, put away personal items like trophies and family pictures. You must pay special attention to important spaces such as closets, garage, kitchen, and baths. You ought to repair things that are broken. If you have outdoor spaces and features, they need to look as first class as you can get them. Curb appeal is so important. Buyers will simply not enter your home when they score its outside appearance as poor.You do it just like you see it done on the dozen TV shows that treat this topic. Sometimes your home will need very little staging, and you may wish to do it yourself with some advice from your Realtor. Or the home may need much done, and you will get some others to help you. This is often the case when you need licensed professionals to repair broken things, or workers to do lawn work. In Southwest Florida there are many professional Home Stagers you may hire to give you advice on what specific things you may do. You give the home, in side and out, the once over.
Make a short written plan of what must be done, and what could be done if there is time and money. Deane and Chris always have a really nice and well kept home. When something breaks on any of their property, they have it fixed immediately. They don’t have any housekeeping assistance, but keep the home pretty darn clean for a working couple. When ever they sell a home, the list of things needing done to stage the home is always long. If you have many things needing done, it does not reflect on what sort of a home maker you are. It only says that your home was a normal one and very personalized and comfortable for you. You are going to give your home a facelift, room by room and yard area by yard area. Some parts will need absolutely nothing done. But there are areas that will need attention. At first, you are only making a plan, which can help you decide what to do. You can change your mind as you go along. Sometimes you will begin a staging task and discover that it is just way too much, and eliminate it. When Chris was cleaning the kitchen tile, he discovered that the baseboards around the tile needed cleaning, and added this to the plan. Many persons first do the de-cluttering. Areas that need special attention are closets and the garage, and kitchen / bath cabinets. People do not open your dresser drawers to gaze in. But they are buying the kitchen / bath cabinets. All around your home may be small furnishings and objects that you have collected to give that personal touch. Some people have many pictures and wall hangings on the walls. All of these might be removed and put away. You may have things you plan to keep and these can be placed in a rental storage unit. Some things you may wish to sell and give away.
Perhaps cleaning and repairing the inside and outside of your home would be next. You do not want to do just an ordinary cleaning. Do a super spring house cleaning. Some will hire professional services for this. It depends. There may be some heavy duty things requiring strength and endurance or special tools and skills. Some examples are cleaning all the floor tile grout, or removing overgrown shrubs that detract from the homes curb appeal. You do not want to spend a whole lot of money doing repairs. It is critical to repair all small things. These are inexpensive, annoying to buyers, and there is no excuse for not fixing them. You can probably fix a loose doorknob yourself. But you ordinarily would not repair your own hot water tank if it is broken. Chris and others may be able to give you some ideas about what broken things you could leave as is and report on your seller’s disclosure, form. Next comes some furniture re-arranging and furniture removal to create more space and improved walkways though your home. If there are things you do not need when you move, these could be sold or given away. Others may be moved to storage. A good rule for furniture is to try hard to eliminate things which are not needed. A sparsely furnished home is much more spacious and appealing to buyers. When buyers enter your home, there should be natural flowing path ways about the home.
You do not need buyers to be dodging and avoiding pieces of furniture. And most of all you want each room to be as open as possible. It is highly (repeat highly) desirable to have as much empty wall space as you can manage. Buyers want to see walls to evaluate the possibilities they have to fill them up. When Deane shops for a home, she is not interested in knowing a room’s width and length. She wants to know how many linear feet of wall there is, and the single longest stretch of wall. Also as you remove pictures and hangings from walls and furniture from blocking walls, it is important to patch picture hanger holes and blemishes with some filler. Even if you do not repaint over these it is better to have them repaired.
Will the air smell fresh and completely free of annoying or unhealthy odors and chemicals? Have the kids forgotten you are selling the home, and made a bulletin board out of the refrigerator you had all cleared off? Are all the beds unmade? Is there dirty laundry scattered about the laundry room? Do you have all the waste baskets around the home freshly emptied out? Is the dishwasher full of dirty dishes? Is the refrigerator so full you could not fit a can of soda in it? Is the swimming pool a beautiful emerald green or is it a blue color like it should be?
Maintain your sanity when you stage your home - Chris will provide you with some written guidelines and checklists to use as you do your staging. He will give you some useful pointers as he inspects your home for filling out the MLS detailed advertising form. It is really important that you do not get over wrought with staging. You should start staging very early in the selling process, because it takes time. If you plan the tasks and tackle them one at a time, it will work out just fine. You are not rebuilding your home. You are just getting it to its very most presentable condition.
THANKS. Christopher Harker
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