Selling Your Home – Fsbo – the #1 Easiest Way to Get Your Home Looking Great and Ready to Sell Fast

When you moved into your home you immediately added your own furniture, photographs, wall hangings and window treatments. Whoever buys your house will do the same thing when they move in. Because their taste and style may be much different from yours, you don’t want to give them a bad impression of your home by giving it a “look” or a “feel” that they don’t like.

You also want your home to look comfortable and inviting to potential buyers. It should look lived in but not too much so. It should look fresh and new, not old and used. The easiest way to do these things is with home staging. Home staging takes your home and makes it more neutral. You want potential buyers to like it the first second they walk in, and if it is neutral they can project their own style onto it. This will make them like it more. Your home will be appealing to a lot more people this way, and you are much more likely to sell it quickly at a higher price.

The ultimate goal of the home stager is to prepare your home (and your yard) to be sold. Home staging is both an art and a science, in that there are both mechanical and aesthetic aspects to the process. Everyone knows you need to reduce clutter, and spruce things up. But exactly how it is done for maximum effect is the realm of the home stager. Home stagers may change colors, re-arrange furniture, remove furniture and other items, and go outside to determine what needs to be done to give the best possible first impressions when buyers drive up to your curb.

I think one of the best services provided by home stagers is to tell you the problem areas that need to be fixed both inside and outside your house. Avoiding negatives is more important than adding “wow” features to the way your home looks. Another thing I like is that home stagers will tell you the best and cheapest way to fix the problems or to enhance your property’s appeal.

If interested in a home staging service, then talk to several of them to learn how they work and what their priorities are. You may be able to receive some free consultations and these should never be passed up. If you optimize the appearance of your property with a home stager, you are more likely to end up with an optimal marketing plan and a quick sale of your home.

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Leo J. Vidal, JD, MA, CPA is a real estate marketing expert, and a Realtor who helps property owners use special marketing methods to sell their homes fast.