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With for sale signs on every other house on every street, competition is fierce for home sellers.  It is definitely what we call a buyers market!  Just getting potential buyers to step through your door is challenging enough, let alone having them realize your home is the perfect option for them.

Home staging is not a new concept.  Popular tv shows on HGTV, including “Get it Sold” and  ”Designed to Sell” show how designers Sabrina Soto and Lisa LaPorta and team declutter and depersonalize homes so other people can imagine living in them.

If you’ve ever walked through a newly built, never been lived in home, you’d be walking into a “staged” home.  From the place settings and floral arrangement on the dining room table, to the fresh towels in the bathroom – everything you see was carefully selected to stage the home for sale.

If you are looking to sell your home, you want to stage it so it’s most visually appealing to the largest number of buyers – in a way that they can’t help but envision themselves living in your home.

Here are some tips to stage your home to encourage  a fast sale:

  • Paint all rooms in neutral colors
  • Remove personal photographs from walls and shelves, and keep only a few decorative items
  • Rearrange furniture to make rooms look bigger and replace broken or old furniture with nicer furniture
  • Declutter.  Anything that you don’t absolutely need should be packed away for your new home, leaving just the essentials of living and a few tastefully decorative items

If you can afford it, hire a professional stager to help you set up your house for an open house (and then keep it set up that way for every open house you have until it sells!)  If it’s outside of your budget; your realtor can also give you some good tips for staging your home for sale.



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