House staging is an important part of getting top dollar for the sale of your home. Even in a sellers market you’ll want to hire a team like ours that will invest their time, energy and budget into helping get your home ready to sell.
There are many other Realtor’s that will sell your house with the least amount of effort. In a sellers market every home will sell fast. However, if your home is prepped the right way, yours will sell for the highest possible price. In addition, you’ll be leaving your home in good move-in ready condition for the buyer. It’s tempting to cut corners, but not when it comes to selling your home.
Our unique P3 process to sell your house fast for top dollar includes drawing up a custom Home Sale Plan of Action. Your Plan of Action is based upon your preferences, priorities, desired timeline and current market conditions. House staging comes in all shapes and sizes. We’ll go over the best staging options for you to include in your Plan of Action.
First, we optimize the plan of action schedule to take advantage of the current market and time of year. This planning phase starts with a review of your moving schedule. Next, we clarify your goals and how you would like you and your family to move through the sale process. We conduct an initial tour to assess the current condition of your home. Finally, we help you assess how much preparation work you want to put into the pre-sale phase and base the preparation portion of the Plan of Action schedule on your preferences.
For example, you may be planning to sell you home in six months to a year. If this is the case you may want to invest in a few key repairs and upgrades in order to boost your homes value before the sale event.
Similar to selling or trading in a vehicle, you have a stronger negotiating position if you’re selling with little to no repairs needed. You can expect that with each major repair recommended by the buyers inspector the buyer will try to leverage the repair for a discounted price. If you want to maximize your selling price then you will want to eliminate buyer leverage points. If this is something that interests you then we include a strategic upgrade assessment of your property in preparation for the sale.
However, not every seller wants to put the time, energy and budget into repairs and upgrades. You may just want to sell your house now.
In that case we take an efficient, professional approach that still includes preparation but not a full repair and upgrade phase.
House staging always includes preparation for the seller and our selling team. For the seller this includes de-cluttering. This is an essential part of staging a home. If you think of your home like an art canvas, de-cluttering is clearing the canvas so that potential buyers can envision themselves in your home. If the canvas is full then they won’t see themselves in the painting and won’t want to make you an offer. Your canvas has been filled with a beautiful painting. However, this painting needs to be cleaned up, organized and packed away to move to it’s new home.
Investing a little money before the sale of your home is smart. The little that you spend getting your home cleaned up and giving it that new home smell will pay off big time. These items include new paint throughout, replacement of any and all carpet and power washing the exterior. It’s also a good idea to make sure your gutters are clean and repair any and all small items that you’re aware of.
80% of human communication and decisions are based on smell. Homeowners may not realize it but their home has a distinct smell. An important aspect of staging a home for sale is to scrub that smell clean and make it neutral. If a buyer doesn’t like the smell of your home you have an 80% chance they will pass on making you an offer. Smells cling to fiber which is why you’ll want to be sure to replace all of the carpet in your home. Paint cleans and freshens everything up visibly and in relation to smell.
After your de-cluttering, paint and new carpet it’s time for our team to get to work. We come in with a professional cleaning crew. Our job is to help you through the hard work of packing everything up. Our professional house cleaning team makes your home sparkle in preparation for your home’s photo shoot. Your home is our run way model. We make her shiny clean for the big photo shoot event.
Next, our landscape polishing team comes in to freshen up your front entrance on the outside. This is the first impression space for all of your potential buyers. We add new fresh mulch and put in nice happy plants that will help make guests feel happy and alive as they step up to your front door. No sad thirsty plants on our watch!
If there is any discrepancy with your square footage we will have our professional measurement team come in to create a documented professional measurement. This will help answer questions buyers may have when it comes to your actual square footage. Sometimes listing agents will simply put “owner stated square footage”. We like to provide a professional and verified measurement to back up the adjusted square footage that is stated on your home listing.
It may be that after all of this preparation has been done that you have a house that needs to be professionally staged. If this is the case we will review this with you to plan out the best course of action. On your part it will be necessary for you to completely clear out the house. Once your home is empty our home décor team will get busy filling it with the right furniture and home décor that makes the most sense for the style of your home and the current market trends.
Whether you’re planning on selling as soon as possible or in six months, you’ll get better results when you have a custom Home Sale Action Plan drawn up to maximize your home sale profits. A small effort in preparation makes a big impact on how successful the sale of your home is.
Let’s draw up your custom plan to help make the entire process go more smoothly with less stress for you and your family and maximize your profit.
