Teri Woods asked:




The “For Sale” signs are popping up like wild flowers and yet the homes sit indefinitely on the market. What does one do to get a quick sell in a slow market?

Pricing your home is the number one key. Even if you have had your home appraised in the past year we suggest you have it appraised again just before listing it on the market. Set your price according to the appraisal and the comps in your area. Over pricing your home will turn potential buyers away immediately.

Condition of your home. Stop and take a good look at the current condition of your home. Ask someone with an objective view to take a look at your home and give you an honest list of what they found to be hindrances. Make the effort prior to listing your home to address each issue raised.

Make your home “stand out” in the crowd! Curb appeal is a definite. A potential buyer will drive past your home even if the price is right if they get a bad first impression from the curb. Clean up the yards and prune your trees and shrubs. Plant bright colorful flowers and put out some garden solar lights. Curb appeal is so important as you want the buyers to want to come inside as soon as they drive up to the curb!

Show your home to appeal to the “masses”. This will include decluttering the entire house, closets and cupboards as well. Remove everything off of your kitchen and bath countertops. If you are going to do some home improvement projects to update your home put your money into the kitchen and the baths. You will regain your investment and updated kitchens and baths sell homes. Update built in light fixtures and carpeting if necessary.

Staging a home for the market will most certainly guarantee you a quicker sell. A home that is “staged” stands out amongst all others. Stat’s prove across the country that a properly staged home will sell at the asking price and sometimes above. If you have your home appraised after all repairs, updates and staging is completed you may well get a higher appraisal value on the home.

If you are looking to “stage” your home on your own we suggest that you get professional advise from a professional home stager so that you are certain that your home is show ready. We at Home Stages Designs offer many Home Staging ebooks to assist the do-it-yourselfers out there. When following the lead of a professional you can rest assured that your home is going to sell quicker than all others that are not show ready. Now days, potential buyers expect to purchase homes that are ready to move into and that they do not have to plunk alot of money into at the onset of the purchase. These are the buyers that will give you your asking price without hesitation.

Make the perfect first impression and sell your home now! See us for more details and related ebooks to get you started on your way to fast home sell.

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Jackie Riggins asked:




“People feel like you’re trying to move them out of the house before it’s even sold,” says Jackie Riggins, CEO, Property Staging Consultants. “All we’re asking them to do is pack up early. Yet, they don’t want to let go. The bottom line is that if they’re not willing to go through the process, they’re not that willing to sell the home. The sellers have to be totally motivated to do this.”

They might be a bit more inclined to do so, however, if there were an easier way. PODS (Portable on Demand Storage), whose containers are used to store part or all of a home’s belongings during a move or while the home is listed on the market. PODS & Property Staging Consultants work to create a Buy Ready home through staging and storing the items. The items are then housed off-site at a PODS Storage Center. PODS is now in 48 states. Belongings can be stored as long as the homeowner needs.

“I tell my clients to pretend that they’re camping for six weeks-keep in the house what you can’t live without,” advises Jackie Riggins. “Then, move your personal belongings out to the PODS container one room at a time. Take your time with it.

“Homeowners offer way too much ‘eye candy’-distractions,” adds Jackie Riggins. “Prospective buyers need to be able to see the floors, for example. They need the house to be totally free of personal belongings. I explain that they should pretend that they’re having a big garage sale-room to room. Finish one room at a time; mark the boxes then transfer them to the PODS container.”

The real key, says Riggins, is to move extra pieces of furniture out to container. “Big pieces-like an armoire & clutter, eat up square footage,” she explains. “So, if we can minimize those items, it looks like there’s more space.

What’s so helpful-especially when it comes to those larger pieces-is that PODS brings the container directly to your home, explains Jackie Riggins. “They bring it to you-and that’s huge,” she says. By setting up the container in the driveway, homeowners are given time to allow Property Staging Consultants to come in do the Consultation Report©, then come back to complete the Staging process.  Property Staging Consulants  packs up for you. This way it’s easier to get your house ready to show.  Once this is completed they must go through their items, and load everything in the POD.

Especially with the cost of fuel in today’s economy, Jackie Riggins says PODS makes more sense than ever. “When PODS and Property Staging Consultants work together who needs to rent a truck and do it yourself,” says Riggins.  We are both here for the homeowner and Property Staging Consultants have set the standards in home staging.

Jackie Riggins says there’s no better way to get a home sold faster and for more money than to de-clutter and hire a Property Staging Consultant to come make your home stand out amongst the competition.

 

Home Stager asked:



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