7 Staging Tips to Help You Sell Your Home Fast
When you’re selling your home, you likely want the best price to come and for it to come as quickly as possible. One of the tried and true ways to get more interest and better offers is effectively staging your home. Check out these seven staging tips to help you succeed in this arena.
- Start by Focusing on Curb Appeal If there is only one thing you can do to stage your home, make it the exterior. It is likely that someone considering your home will drive by before committing to a showing. If they don’t like what they see then it will be much harder to get them through the door. Power wash both the exterior of your home and your walkways. Make sure your house numbers are easy to read and get as much greenery and blooming as you can. Wash your windows and stain the porch if needed.
- Hire Professionals for a Deep Clean You do not want anything to distract potential buyers from the beauty of your home. Hire the pros to come in and get your floors, windows, and counters sparkling and clean. Have your grout cleaned, your carpets wasted – do everything you can to get the hose as clean as it can possibly be.
- Get Rid of Clutter One of the most important things you can do to sell your home quickly is to clear away all clutter from your home. This may be hard and it may require you to put items in storage, or to give up some items that bring convenience. IN the long run, it will be worth it. When buyers see a clean surface and floor, they see more space.
- Take Some Extra Time with Your Dining Table It is common for homeowners who want to sell their home to forget to stage the dining room. This is a blind spot in the process but remember that a large table with nothing on it can look cold and uninviting. Set a few places so that the visitors can imagine themselves at the table.
- Pay Attention to Your Floors As you go through your home and see what needs extra cleaning, make sure you are taking a good look at your floors. If you have carpets, steam clean them. If you have hardwood, refinish it if it is not in good shape. If you do not want to go to that trouble or expense, at least cover problem areas with rugs.
- Let Go of the Way Your Furniture is Arranged When you arrange furniture in a room you live in, you think about practical things. When you are arranging your furniture for showing, pull your furniture off the walls, arrange it symmetrically, and make room for inviting areas.
- Show Off “Bonus” Rooms If you have a room in your home that could be used for various purposes, pick one and show it that way. Do not simply have a room full of odds and ends you are storing there – this will make it look as though it is not a useful room. Show visitors exactly what could be done with it.
We at Neighborhood Escrow hope you have found these tips helpful. We are proud to be a neighborhood escrow company serving you.
