Home staging to sell your home for top dollar

Sometimes called house fluffing, it is the art of wowing buyers when they drive by. It is the art of wowing buyers when they walk into your beautifully prepared house for sale. It is the art of making your house appear sparkling, organized and spacious.

It is the art of presenting your house so that buyers can see themselves in it – not you.

It means mentally detaching from your home and viewing it as a property to sell so you can move on to the next place you want to make a home. It means depersonalizing your house to create curb appeal and overall buyer appeal to the largest possible pool of buyers.

It’s helpful to compare to what you want when you check into a hotel. You want your room to be attractive, but you don’t want reminders of previous guests. Your house for sale should send the same message to buyers.

Why you should consider staging your home.

So the immediate task is to turn your house into a product that will earn you that top dollar.

First impressions happen without you even knowing. These days, buyer can find out a lot about your house before you even know they were looking.

Most real estate listings now include pictures of your interior. If your interior is cluttered and needs work, most buyers will just click to the next listing.

And remember, buyers drive by to get that crucial first impression from the condition of your exterior.. If the exterior looks well maintained and inviting, buyers will want to come inside. If not, they will just drive on to the next property for sale. You won’t even know you lost them.

Selling quickly is key to avoid lowering the price. Most buyers want a house they can move right into, not a house to fix up. They get nervous when they see cosmetic flaws, because they wonder if there are bigger flaws as well. It’s human nature. So they decide to move on to the next listing. You exclude a large pool of buyers if your house appears to need work.

When your house goes on the market, you are competing with a lot of other sellers. Your house needs to put its best foot forward to attract quick buyer offers. You don’t want it sitting on the market.

You may have seen those TV programs where buyers put their house up without doing the work to get it looking its sparkling best. Very soon the agent is suggesting lowering the price by $10,000 or even more.

Looking back, those sellers probably would have spent a couple of thousand dollars to spiffy up the house rather than lose big dollars on the selling price. But they left it too late.

Get that SOLD sign on your lawn quickly

So consider this rapidly growing and innovative selling service as one of keys to that all-important SOLD sign on your lawn.