by Debbie Correale
Is your home currently on the market or are you thinking of selling your home this year? If so, let’s review some ideas to help this go smoothly and successfully for you!
Clean and DeClutter!
The first thing that a potential home buyer will notice is how clean your home presents. It should sparkle and be free of clutter. To remove unwanted things from your home, consider renting a roll off container or dumpster. For information on locating a business near you, click here. You will want to remove excess furniture and personal items from your home; this may require that you rent a storage space. Click here for information you need to know prior to selecting a storage company.
Professional Photos and Videos
Since the majority of home buyers initially view homes on the internet, quality presence on the internet is required. It is important to have professional high quality pictures and video to market you home. If you have a good camera, you can take the photos yourself. Click here to read this article titled, “The best shot: A photography lesson for home sellers†as it offers great tips from professional architectural photographers.
Before Staging
Home Staging Benefits
A home staging survey from HomeGain.com found that money spent on staging provided almost a 300 percent return on investment. You will want to deal with any home repairs in advance, for a list of the 10 reasons you’ll want to make repairs before you put your house on the market, click here. A buyer decides within 7-10 seconds of viewing a home if they like your home or not. This means you have to make the best impression possible quickly!
After Staging
The goal of home staging is to appeal to the greatest number of buyers. Therefore, a professional home stager will down play the homeowner’s personal items and make the home look more like a model home. The goal is to have buyers focus on the features of the home and not the homeowner’s collections or where they have traveled. We want prospective buyers to imagine themselves in your house and not be side-tracked by family photos and personal items. The best salesman in the room is how the furniture is arranged. It eliminates the statement, “I love the house but where do we put the couch.â€
Benefits of Home Staging with Redesign Right
Redesign Right will meet with you and your home for a thorough home staging consultation. During this time, analysis of your home, through the eyes of a prospective buyer, will be done. During the consultation, an honest, objective and thorough “to do†list will be compiled to help you appeal to the greatest number of buyers and sell your home quicker! Redesign Right will be involved in your staging project as much or as little as you want and are comfortable with.
If needed, Redesign Right will come back and with a group of certified trained home stagers physically move your furniture around to create a “model home†in one day starting with what you already own. They will rearrange and remove existing furniture and create the look that will accentuate the positive attributes of your home and appeal to the greatest number of buyers. Their method and process in preparing homes for sale has proven to sell properties faster and for top dollar.
For further information on home staging, click here. Contact Debbie@RedesignRight.com for your home consultation.
Debbie Correale is founder and owner of Redesign Right, LLC. You can learn more about her at www.RedesignRight.com. Find her on Facebook.com/RedesignRight, Twitter @RedesignRight, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Houzz and Google+.