Tips You Need To Know From A Certified Staging Agent!

Melissa McKinney — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 02:39:00 GMT

I am a Certified Staging Agent, tips that you need to know!

One of the biggest things that you need to know is the true meaning of home staging. Home staging is used to highlight the good things about the property and down play the bad. It is not Interior Designing, not as people know anyway. If you were to call a Interior Designer to come in and make your house your home, you would be decorating for your taste for the time that you are going to be living in the home. Home Staging leans more towards Neutralizing the home. Maybe using the things that are already contained inside the home but moving things around to be more functional and appealing to the general public. If necessary purchasing things that will enhance the space.

Some of the other things that you need to do as a Seller is to take down the personal objects through the home. Family photos and certificates and things of that nature you should not leave out for anyone and everyone to look at. First of all you don't want to DISTRACT the potential buyers from looking at the HOUSE. I have been in homes with potential buyers that will say "hey, this guy is a DR." or "I think I have seen them somewhere before". Then they are spending more time trying to figure out the connection and have forgotten why they are there.

For safety reasons you will want to put away anything that tells when you will be away from the home, example, calendars with the family events. We want to hope all the people that come through our home are good honest people but some may not be. So lets not give them the information that they need to return unaccompanied when you are not at home. Valuables need to be put away or even removed from the property, prescription drugs should be put in a place where buyers will NOT be looking. They all are going to be opening closets and cabinets but should NEVER open drawers of furniture, anything not a part of the home.

One of the things that you should be willing to do when you want to SELL your home, I say "SELL" because we could say "LIST" but what do you WANT? You should be willing to pack up excessive furniture and belongings so that it highlights the space that the home has to offer. You are planning on moving, RIGHT? So just think of this as getting a head start. Everything that you are doing is going to HELP you get to where it is YOU want to be! Sometimes I hear people say "I still have to live here!". Well the longer you keep that attitude you WILL have a MUCH longer stay...

Another thing that you will need to do is if you have loud colors that depict your personality, although it is GREAT for you for the potential buyers, not so much. So you need to be willing to paint the rooms colors that will appeal to the greater population. Some people say "well I will paint it when I get an offer and they can say if they want to paint". The problem is that there are more than not that can not see past that color. So the house might be exactly what they are looking for but they were so DISTRACTED by the colors they didn't even see the house. Just continue to remind yourself that YOU are SELLING you DO NOT want this to be your home any longer.

Closets are a BIG thing! They are probably a whole lot bigger than they look right now! You are going to have to clean them out.... If it is winter pack up all your summer stuff because hopefully by summer you will be hanging those things in your new closet! The boxes on the shelf they need to go to storage to show off the storage area that the closet has to offer. Lets not forget about under the sinks. Pack up what you will not be using and clean out. It is inevitable that empty bottles make their way there and somehow don't make it to the trash, get rid of them. Not to mention how much this is going to make your move easier and you don't want all that unwanted stuff going to YOUR new house!

These are all easy things that you can get done before I even arrive at your property. Once I am there I can give you more tips to help get YOUR HOME SOLD! Give me a call, lets talk about your wants and what it is going to take to get you there!!

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Melissa McKinney : Staging Tips From The Pro

Tips You Need To Know From A Certified Staging Agent!