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

Expert home staging is an established strategy used to sell a home here in San Jose, California. Some advantages to home staging include fewer days on the market and more offers. And you should certainly think about professional home staging if you need a fast home sale.

Think of staging your house as creating a "style" for your property similar to what a publicist would do for a popular politician. Just like creating an image draws the spotlight to a public figure, staging makes your real estate more attractive on the market.

Making ready your home to sell doesn't have to be a problem. It can actually be enjoyable. Together, we'll strive for a top dollar offer for your home. Below are a few home staging pointers to get you started:

Curb Appeal Checklist

Curb appeal is your first chance to make a positive impact on buyers before they enter your home. The good and bad features that jump out at buyers create their first opinion of your home and how you keep up your house's regular maintenance.Understanding this helps us to decide what steps we can take to attract buyers from the street and into your house. If your home isn't at its best on the outside with retouched paint and colorful garden plants it's time to get those things done. Refer to the Curb Appeal Checklist and boost your home'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 with a buyer's eye, I'll suggest changes that improve market appeal. I'll help you put out of sight anything that gives the illusion of clutter. Table and counter tops should be clutter-free. Kitschy sculptures, sentimental items, family photos, and play time drawings should get stored away too. You need to remove the personal details from the home so buyers can see it as their new home.

Every area gets a once-over. I'll point out the pieces of furniture that should be put in storage, rooms that need a fresh coat of paint, carpet needing to be changed, fixtures that could use brightening, and any other improvement that can inexpensively be made to positively influence the sale.

Potential buyers want a property that draws them in with charm. Anything that could be too personal should get moved out so that your house will garner mass appeal to buyers.

Setting the Stage

During your Open House, we want to engage the buyer's senses. Dark rooms can really dampen a buyer's spirits, so we'll do things like open curtains and add lighting where needed to invite the buyer inside. Together we'll enhance the mood of the house with enjoyable music to listen to while guests tour your home and assure a pleasant fragrance circulates from every room. We'll add cozy-looking blankets, and pillows on your chairs and bed. Buyers should feel like your current house has the potential to be.