The Benefits of Home Staging
Home Staging, House June 19th, 2007So, my home has been on the market for 8 days, has had 5 showings, and one offer.
Not bad, considering the usual time right now in the area is 30-50 days on market.
Thus, the benefit of Home Staging is illustrated.
Guess what impressed our Seller’s Agent most about our house?
The uncluttered closets and kids’ rooms!
(Next week, I promise to write a post on how I decluttered the kids’ rooms!)
The only negative comment we got from a Buyer’s Agent so far has been: “pet odor.” Aaaak!
This is totally my fault. After the carpets were professionally cleaned, guess what I did? I put the smelly 10 year old doggie bed back in my bedroom! I don’t smell it anymore!
Dog has a new bed, and regular baths scheduled. I’ve added a couple home scents in strategic places just in case (which I hate, but makes some people think the house is clean.)
Speaking of cleaning, I have a schedule:
Bathrooms 3x a week
Kithchen 3x a week (deep clean)
Dust 2x a week
and either Mop or Vacuum every day (alternating: half my house is tiled.)
Everything gets picked up before anyone leaves the room. Because, really, you never know when a Buyer might schedule a showing!
And of course, no meal prep can last more than 30 minutes, just in case. (Oh, darn!)
June 20th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Staging is totally the way to go. We staged our house according to what we had read about, then a little more after the Realtor’s first visit. Our house sold to the first guy that looked at it, in 4 hours. We had 2 back up offers by the end of the week. I think I cleaned up to 5 hours a day since we have a 3 year old and 4 cats. I know all the home shows have people removing their pets for the duration of the house being on the market, but I think fanatical cleaning makes up for the presence of pets. I scooped the litter 4 or 5 times a day, particularly if I was leaving the house. Good luck!