Spend Less Time on the Market With an Open House and Home Staging Techniques

Prior to listing your home for sale, consider a proven way to sell your house: expert home staging. Home staging benefits include less time on the market and higher bids. If you want to sell your house quickly, choose a well-planned approach to home staging.

Home staging is part of preparing your home for sale. Staging centers on on your home's presentation to buyers and buyers' agents while showing off the characteristics of your home with strategically placed furniture and artwork so that your home seems bigger and buyers can picture living in your home.

Making ready your property to sell shouldn't be thought of as a nerve-racking experience. It can actually be enjoyable. Together, we'll work to get a high bid for your home. So, for fewer days on the market in Oakland, start with these home staging tips:

Curb Appeal Checklist

Curb appeal is your best chance to make a positive impact on buyers from a street perspective. The good and bad features that jump out at buyers create their initial thoughts about your home and how you perform home's regular maintenance.Acknowledging this helps us to decide what we can do to entice buyers from the street and into your house. If your home's exterior isn't inviting with refreshed paint and blooming garden plants we'll need to tackle those as well. Refer to the Curb Appeal Checklist and raise your house's final selling price.

Welcome Home Checklist

Does your home seem to say, "This is Your Next House" to a buyer? Looking through your house from a buyer's view, I'll advise you of fixes that enhance sales appeal. I'll tell you reduce the effect of anything that gives the illusion of clutter. Surface areas like tables, desks and counters should be free and clear. Knickknacks, souvenirs, family photos, and refrigerator artwork should get stored away too. You need to remove the personal details from the house so buyers can envision it as their new home.

I know exactly what a room's best characteristics are and how to highlight them. I'll note the pieces of furniture that should be removed, rooms that need a fresh coat of paint, rugs needing to be changed, fixtures that need polishing, and any other improvement that can inexpensively be made to positively affect the sale.

Buyers' agents know that their clients like a residence that seems comfortable. Items that could be unsightly should get moved out so that your house will impress buyers at the open house.

Setting the Stage

I'll tell you when to host an Open House, because everything comes together to set the stage for what buyers can envision after they choose to buy your house. Dark living areas can be a real mood killer, so we'll do things like open curtains and change light bulbs where needed to invite the buyer inside. Together we'll enhance the mood of the house with enjoyable music playing softly and assure a delightful aroma flows throughout your home. We'll make use of cozy-looking blankets, and place pillows on your love seat and bedding. Buyers should feel like your home has the potential to be.