Home staging is the very best proven real estate strategy used by successful home sellers and realtors across North America – it is the art of preparing a home for the real estate market. Home staging is about creating an environment where the home buyer sees themselves in the home. It is the key that unlocks buyer’s emotions and helps them connect to your house.  Home staging is much more than just helping sellers decorate their homes. It is proven way to get top dollar for your home as you prepare it for sale regardless of the home’s price, location, or condition. It’s merchandising your product to its’ fullest potential. 

Home staging is an art beyond decorating, fluffing, interior design or redesign. Decorating is a way of personalizing your home for your needs; home staging is exactly the opposite.  It is detailing, decluttering, depersonalizing and preparing a seller’s home to give it a showroom appeal. It is accomplished by not having to purchase new furnishings, but rather, rearranging, removing and refreshing the existing furniture. Home staging is a tool to transform both the interior and the exterior of a house to present it as fresh, clean, uncluttered, well-cared for and welcoming -   home staging is “curb appeal” for the whole home. 

Home staging is the most effective marketing tool used in today’s changing market. The concept dramatically reduces the days homes are on the market and is bringing in significantly higher sales prices and profits to sellers. 

Make no mistake, home staging is an investment not an expense. It is a proven technique that has lead to selling thousands of homes for top dollar. Home staging is about letting a home’s best features shine through, by setting the stage for the buyers to walk in the front door and immediately envision themselves living in the space. It is not hiding serious problems that need to be addressed in any way. 

Home staging is the smartest investment a homeowner can make to maximize the value of their home at the time of sale.  Home staging is quick, easy and affordable. In a slow real estate market, home staging is a must - it is good news for the seller; good news for the buyer; and good news for the Realtor. 

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You have heard before that the first impression is a lasting impression - it s true. Statistics show that potential buyers decide in about 10 seconds of seeing the outside of a house whether they want to see the inside. This is one of the single most important things you can do to attract buyers initially. So, the first thing for a quick home sale is to create a curb appeal. Great curb appeal gets your selling opportunity off to a flying start. If you can create the wow factor from the outset, right from the moment potential buyers first drive up to your home they will be hooked. Selling your home then becomes a lot easier as buyers tend to overlook small things - their emotions start to take over and resolve minor niggles.

The good news is that creating curb appeal is not all that hard.

First off, make sure your yard is kept well manicured and appears tidy, clean and cared for. Trim shrubs, grass and clean up flower beds.

Typically the buyers will be checking out the exterior walls and whether or not the place looks in good order. Therefore you need to ensure that the exterior walls, at least, have been power washed and if necessary given a fresh coat of paint. In fact color is high on the list of key emotional triggers and a major factor in creating great curb appeal. Choose colors with care for any repainting as it can make or break the curb appeal of your home. You can repaint the front door to add color and definition.

Remember that you will be repainting for the future buyers, not for you or your family. You will have to set aside your own personal taste and think in terms of what will appeal to a buyer. However, since you don t know what any one prospect will like it is safest to choose what is known as a universal color . The color should blend well with the other homes in the neighborhood. It may be that the color that appealed to you when you bought the home was just perfect (it may even have been the trigger that led YOU to buy!). If you have been a bit indulgent with any repaint in the interim, be prepared to go back to safe, sound, basic, light and simple colors that harmonize with the surroundings rather than fight against it, for a more certain positive appeal.

It is critical to maximize the curb appeal of your home as it is the first emotional trigger. Getting this right, will start to get your buyer panting for more, and if the interior of your property also continues to tickle-their-fancy in the right way, you could soon be en route to achieving a quick home sale.