5 Reasons for Staging Your Home
As a Realtor, I know the importance of staging your home prior to listing it. While I don’t do the work of staging, I see how it impacts selling time and price.
Many sellers think staging their home is too expensive and too much work, they like their decorating, and they don’t understand the value.
The expense is nowhere near the cost of your first price reduction and the work mostly involves cleaning and decluttering; which has to be done anyways.
It is understandable you like your existing decorations. Look at it this way – interior design is for living in your home, staging is for selling your home. They are distinctly different.
Rather than looking at it as a cost, think of what staging will do for you.
5 reasons for staging your home:
- Get the Highest Price for Your Home. A well-staged home is aesthetically pleasing. Everything looks inviting, comfortable, and simple. It elicits a strong emotion from buyers: desire.
- Your Home Will Sell Faster– The Association of Property Scene Designers states that staged homes sell for 43% more quickly than unstaged homes.
- Staging Helps with Procrastination– Your stager will want many of your keepsakes and collector items put away. This is called decluttering and depersonalizing. You will have to tackle this at some point. Get it done early, store boxes in the basement, a POD, or rent a storage unit for a few months.
- Staging Will Teach you a Few Things. Maybe you never had a decorator before and have done it all yourself. Those floral curtains in the bedroom, the layout of the pictures over the living room sofa, the furniture placement in the family room or the overlarge chair in the den. It all works perfect for you – but a stager might just show you “better” which is something you can take with you to your new home.
- You Never Get a Second Chance to Make a First Impression– is a favorite line with stagers and real estate agents. If you don’t stage before you list, you have lost time and money – the two things that are all but promised if you stage your home before listing it for sale. You get a good feeling when you walk into a home that has been properly staged. It’s not fake, it’s more than just placemats and wine glasses on the dining room table. It just feels good.
Thank You and Have a Great Day
Marina Jacobson
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