Top Reasons To Stage Your Home

• It Puts Your House Above the Competition.

 As a seller, you have a lot of competition. You can bet that would-be home buyers have seen other houses before visiting yours, and that they’ll see more when they leave. What makes your house stand out from the rest? When you get down to it, there are only two ways to distinguish your home. You can price it below the competition or make it seem like a nicer home. If you do neither of these things, your house will probably be on the market for a long time, while helping to sell your Neighbor's home.

• Stage Your Home Instead of Reducing the Listing Price. 

The price of a home drops the longer it sits on the market.  Studies from the Real Estate Staging Association found that staged homes spent 72% less time on the market. The whole point of home staging in the first place is to present the home in the best possible light. Buyers are always more likely to make an offer on an attractive home   

• Staging Can Make a Space Seem Bigger.

 It might seem like completely emptying a space would make it seem bigger, but on the contrary, rooms can end up looking small when they’re completely empty. Sometimes people have a hard time imaging how much room their queen-sized bed will take up, and they might think they need more room when they actually don’t. Showing how the space in a room can be used takes buyers one step closer to envisioning living there. 

• Don't Shoot The Stager.

 The primary goal of staging is not to transform your home into the Royal Palace.  Rather, the best stagers will work with what you have, rearranging and reallocating all of your belongings, in order to present the property in its best light. Sometimes this means reallocating some of those belongings to a storage. 

Make no mistake -- professional staging is an inconvenience. Your daily routine will become a bit tidier. And you may experience some discomfort as you watch your life rearranged to suit the tastes of others. But if selling your home in the shortest amount of time and for the most money is your goal, it is precisely those "others” who should be your focus.

• Buyers Need Help Visualizing.

 When buyers are looking for a home, they want to be able to visualize the home as a good fit for their family. Without professional help, buyers may not be able to look past the personalized things from the previous family in the house. A National Association of Realtors study shows that 77% of buyers said staging a home made it easier for them to visualize the property as a potential future home.  

• It Gives the Impression of a Well Maintained Home.

Basic repairs are the first step in any home-staging plan. You start by fixing what’s broken. This is the bare minimum. After that, you move on to the cosmetic touches like painting and decorating. The result is that the house seems like it’s in tip-top shape. This puts buyers’ minds at ease, which is exactly what you want. 

• Get a Head Start on Packing.

 You have to pack up all of your belongings eventually, before you can move. So why not start now? In order to stage your house, you must remove any and all clutter from the premises. You also need to pack away your personal belongings so buyers can imagine themselves living in the house. By staging the home, you’re making your job easier when it comes time to move. You won’t have as much stuff to box up at the last minute.