Tips on staging your home to sell!

Staging is a bit different than decorating a home. It’s cleaning, decluttering and organizing your home to appeal to the largest pool of buyers in the market to purchase a home! A staged home can potentially net a seller 1% to 5% more for their home vs. one that is not staged.

Buyer’s often visualize themselves living in your home during the showing. This is why staging a home is so important. The benefits are they can see the rooms, their intended use and how they will place their furniture once they own the home. Staging takes out all of the guess work for a buyer. Both the buyer and seller benefit from staging in more ways than one. Here are some staging tips for you when planning to put your home on the market.

1. Clean and Declutter– make sure your home looks clean and smells clean and all things that you are not using can be stored away. (mixers, toasters, gym equipment, toys etc…).
2. Depersonalize– make sure you remove all personal photos, degrees, awards, trophy’s etc.. this is not something a buyer wants to see in a home they potentially want to live in.
3. Define spaces– defining rooms and space for their intended use is very helpful to a buyer so they visualize themselves and their belongings in the home.
4. Paint– paint is one of the most inexpensive things you can do to your home to give it an updated feel and helps get you closer to your asking price of the home.
5. Lighting– make sure all of your lightbulbs work and have been replaced so that each room has adequate lighting for potential buyers.
6. Furniture– minimize the furniture used for staging each room so that the buyer can see the space and visualize their furniture in the space.
7. Neutral colors– you want to use neutral colors when staging because this shows off your home as a blank canvas for the potential buyer to again, see themselves in the space and actually living there.

The bottom line is that staging a home helps it sell faster and for more money! What a seller is looking for at the end of the day! Selling your home for the most money in the least amount of time and with the lowest amount of stress possible!