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Learn Why Home Staging Is All The Rage

Want to sell your home in this wicked market? You better start with home staging. In this market, you need to do everything you possibly can to give your home an advantage when it comes to selling because of the huge supply of homes on the market.

Home staging the outside of your home increases curb appeal. Here are three easy things you can do to make the outside of your home look better for potential buyers:

1. Drive up to your house to see what prospects see when they drive up to your house. Notice if any paint is peeling or the landscaping looks terrible. Remember, any negative impression they have of the outside of the house is going to make them think the house was not taken care of. Many prospects will drive by your house and look before even calling your agent so make sure they get a good first impression of the outside of your house.

2. Next, step outside your front door and close the door; then stand on the stoop and look around for 5 minutes. While the Realtor fumbles for keys and tries to figure out how to open the door, the clients are standing behind and looking around. So what are they seeing? Dead plants, old Halloween decorations in the middle of January, cobwebs? Again, not a good first impression!

I can not stress enough how important it is that you clean these things up. In fact, in this wicked market I think you should go a step further by applying a fresh coat of paint over the entire outside of your house.

3. Most owners forget the backyard, do not do that. True, it is not as important as the front yard but do not neglect it. Make sure the grass is green, the weeds are out and if possible, throw in a cheap, less than $100 outdoor table and chairs for the backyard.

Put yourself in a prospects shoes. What first impressions do you get about your house. What do you see that does not look good. Is your house something that you would buy? What would you ask the seller to fix before putting an offer on the house?

Do not count pennies when it comes to home staging. You need to be willing to spend several thousand dollars to get your home ready for sale. You will get double your money back when your home actually sells. I even had a friend who staged his home by installing a $15,000 solar panel system. He then sold his home for $30,000 more and guess what? He got the price he was asking for! The buyer knew that he would save hundreds of dollars each month in power costs and so he was willing to pay more for the home. With proper home staging, you will sell your home faster and at the price you desire.

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