Keep It Simple
Jennifer Bays
Over 81% Of Buyers Find It "easier To Visualize A Property As Their Future Home" When It’s Staged.
The majority of people who are buying a home will focus solely on cosmetic things like family photos, personal things and wall hangings and forget about the actual structure and potential of the home. If you want to sell your home quickly, for the best possible price then staging is absolutely imperative.
What does this mean? First:
Staging a home ensures that the BUYER sees your home all of its glory and potential. Staging is designed to help illustrate to the buyer what a property can offer. That can be tough to do though when clutter, outdated and possibly crowded furniture, and loads of personal items attached to the current owners are on display in the listing pictures and during showings.
It is a fact that the majority of people do not see past personal things, family photos, taste in wall hangings, clutter, mess, dirt, “Visual noise”.
- It does not mean that your home lacks appeal.
- It does not mean your decorating strategy is awful.
- It does not mean your taste in paint and furniture is out of date.
How Does Staging Help You Sell Your Home?
With buyers encouraged to focus more on the “bones” of a house and less on its interior aesthetics, you have a lot to gain from making it easier for them to see the true potential of a space. Most important is that the buyer then potentially can envision themselves in a space relative to the one they imagined they sought at the start of their search.
Time On The Market
What Is Involved In Staging A Home?
The same deep clean you would do entering a new home should also be done prior to listing your home on the market. And if you don’t have the time to do it right, spend the money on a professional cleaning service – you’ll get it back ten-fold.
There’s a lot to gain from a lack of clutter. Getting rid of clutter opens up the space and makes it look both bigger and more appealing. When you’re getting ready to sell, box up everything you don’t need on a day-to-day basis (including seasonal items, papers, and a majority of your home décor) and store it all away for your next home.
Big repairs can be handled in post-inspection negotiations but small repairs should be done during the staging process. These little fixes are quick and cheap to take care of, and will be glaring to buyers if they’re not.
It can be difficult for a buyer to picture themselves in a home if they’re confronted with pictures, decorations, colours and the personal style of a home’s current owners. The goal is to create a blank canvas. To successfully do this, you need to remove all family photos, and personal items and create a neutral canvas with a “less is more” approach.
Preparation For Moving
Jennifer can manage the entire process of moving for you or can manage “portions of” if desired. From initial consultation to all things “moving” right down to packing and unpacking.
Jennifer’s complementary company OrganizeU Now will take care of the entire organizing, staging, de-cluttering, moving process start to finish so the worry and strain falls away from you and upon them.
What does this mean? What will we take on? EVERYTHING! You will be close at hand to approve and ensure you are at peace with the process.
Examples include:
- Removal: recycling, repurposing, garbage, donation, etc.
- Gathering: materials for packing (at your expense).
- Pack: belongings, specific room(s).
- Hire specialists for minor repairs, paint, touch ups
- Administrative cancellation/coordination: PUC, WiFi, Cable, Address change, Phone, Mail forwarding, etc.
- Moving company: hire, schedule & oversee moving company or movers throughout the move or at beginning.
- Final destination: we offer all of the same in reverse to ease your settling in if you so wish, right up to the hanging of pictures. OrganizeU Now will do any part of, or all of this – whatever your needs may be.