The importance of staging
“I wish we had staged my house sooner!”
I hear this all the time from clients after I’ve staged their condo/house for sale. Most recently at a $6.2 million listing in Breckenridge, but also at a $100,000 condo in Boulder.
Unfortunately, many homeowners employ the following strategy: We’ll list the home vacant or tired-looking, then we’ll wait and see if it sells before we decide to stage it.
All realtors can tell you that the traffic of potential buyers is greatest when a home is newly listed. That’s when your home should look its’ best to appeal to the greatest number of buyers. Imagine the perfect person viewing your home, but not seeing the potential of the home because it’s vacant, only partially furnished, or because it just looks lived in.
The cost of staging is much less than the extra mortgage payments while your house is on the market longer. We do not charge to preview your home and give you our list of recommendations for staging (general, not specific) and estimates on the cost of staging.
This is the strategy all homeowners should employ: Stage your house at the time you list it for sale, to highlight the positive features of the home, eliminate distractions and help buyers visualize themselves and their furnishings in your home. Your house will sell quicker!
Nancy Ewing at Creative Angle REdesign and Staging can be reached at 970.333.4349 or www.creativeangle.net,