Confessions of a Mad Stager, Real Estate Agent, Homemaker or Why Not to Prepare Your Home for Sale in Six Days!
Can you go from this:
To this: ………………………………………………………………………… In 6 days?!??????????????
Yes, I know the room isn’t the same but the concept is. My kitchen didn’t look as bad as this office (Larry’s) but I don’t recommend trying to get your home ready for sale in six days. As I preach in my staging articles Fix In, Fix Out, Clean Up, Clean Out and all that entails, is generally more than one (or two) can do in such a short time. What I wouldn’t give for Harry Potter’s magic wand! Nevertheless, our home is for sale. An opportunity arose and we had to strike.
This brought to my mind that I had promised one more staging article on “Showing Your Home”. After you have done all that stuff I suggested in my posts, http://www.issaquahundressed.com/tags/staging-your-home-for-sale/, each day your home is for sale you should set the stage.
1. Tidy up, make beds, no dishes in the sink, spic & span, no tooth brushes on the counter, most of you know the drill. Isn’t this what your mother always made you do (or wished you would do). Floof and Poof to perfection as one of my employers said.
2. Open blinds, etc, so light fills the room, unless it is summer and it would just get too hot.
3. Turn on strategic lights that make your home look its best.
4. Have soft music playing
5. Make sure you empty the garbages, especially the powder room and bathroom ones
6. It is best to NOT set the alarm if you have a security system. They make agents paranoid and often are set off accidently UNLESS you clearly state in the agent info in the MLS EXACTLY how to turn it off AND make sure they KNOW it is armed (before they enter) so they can turn it off.
7. Leave the house when there is a showing if possible. People feel more comfortable looking around, especially if they have a serous interest in your home.
I have to admit that I didnt get to de-personalize my home as much as I teach, we broke the back door blind the day before it went on the market and the CD Player went bonkers so there isn’t soft music. And I still have a few things to fix. Yes, stuff happens to real estate agents too!
For more information on this home for sale click http://ravena.neighborhoodsundressed.com
Posted by Kathleen
August 11th, 2007 at 4:24 am
wow! How did you turn your office into a kitchen in six days. You made it bigger too. How long would it take you to so that to my office?
August 14th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Teresa, There is no end to my talents! But alas, I will have to decline, you are just too far away! Kathleen