DO HOME STAGING LIKE A PRO!
WHAT A HOME STAGING PROFESSIONAL CAN TEACH US ABOUT PREPARING A HOME FOR SALE?
Preparing your South Florida Home for Sale Through Home Staging
Are you ready to sell your home in the South Florida area? Is your home ready? Home staging highlights the features of a home and makes it appealing to a large number of buyers by decluttering, updating to a new style, and minimizing eyesores or highly-personalized decoration that may hide the home’s broader appeal.
Preparing your South Florida home for sale through home staging can also include painting, decorating, and buying or renting furniture.
Keep on reading as we discuss tips and tricks that we gather from a podcast episode with a professional Home Stager in South Florida, Wendy Davis.
Wendy Lynn Interiors was established in 2012 and Wendy Lynn actually grew now to three associates along with principal designers. She offers staging services for realtors and investors and interior design services for homeowners.
Every home size is different. What you want to invest in the staging is all different. The price point that the realtor is going to be selling at is different.
3 Home Staging Categories
- Consultation
Home Staging Professional can just go in and give a consultation. They will tell you what they need to freshen, what needs move around in the home or items needed to buy.
Note: When consulting a home staging professional, make sure to bring out a notepad and a pen to write down everything as they go from room to room.
- Rent or Purchase
If you have basic furniture that might be a little outdated, a home stager can bring in fresher accessories, decor area, rugs, and furnishings. You can use an existing dining table but bring in some updated current dining chairs, or some artwork. A home stager can offer them to you to rent or to purchase.
You also have an option to take these existing things with you to your new home; buy them and then you can move them. But If you don’t really want to deal with the moving of it all, then it’s best to rent it.
Rent Discount
Another benefit of hiring a professional home stager is the discount. There are home stager who is also a broker of a huge hundred thousand square foot warehouse and at the same time, a liaison and the designer. You can get as much as 30% discount if you rent it from the home stager than walking to a warehouse yourself.
It also offsets the cost of hiring the home stager that they’re getting trained interior designer’s eye, they get a discount on the furniture and it’s such a quick process. It would only take one week process. Once they turn around, it really improves the sale of the house.
Renting Term
You can do small pieces, big pieces for a 2 months minimum term. You can rent as little or as much as you want. If it’s per piece, for example, a dining room chair rents at $25 a chair.
If you want to rent the whole dining room, it’s probably about $300 per month.
For a 2,500 square foot empty home with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths it usually comes with higher walls and bigger rooms, it would work out about $500 per month per room. Now, home stagers generally focus on the living area, dining room, kitchen, and the master bedroom. For guest bedrooms, Wendy advised us not to go above and beyond to spend money on those areas. But if there’s a den that you want to showcase as an office, then you should rent some items for that part too.
If your property has been on the market for many months and then you bring it into the staging then people get the foot traffic as the pictures represent better online to even bring in the foot traffic.
- Repairs
What type of repairs should be done to a home when home staging to sell it at its highest price?
Kitchen
With kitchens, people want to make sure that there are no loose handles, everything’s secure because those buyers are opening the kitchen cabinet doors. Use the soft close little door hinges that are only $5 each at home depot, that’s a huge upgrade if they aren’t already there.
Paint
Painting can go a long, long way. If you tell a painter I want it white, they’re going to do it drywall white and it’s gonna, it’s gonna be a waste of money. So it’s best to consult a home stager first.
Light
Updating light fixtures or fans can also go a long way when it comes to preparing your home for sale. The old metal fans can easily be switched into new white ones from home depot.
Curb appeal
Use those bright turquoise ceramic pots with bright colored flowers in them, bright hot pink or yellow. Mulch and all goes a long way that’s people’s first and last impression. If they don’t even want to walk in that front door, you’ve lost them. Pressure clean those walls and make sure that it’s freshly cleaned.
Closet
There are some nosy buyers, they’re going to open and see what that closet looks like on the inside. Is that a custom made closet or you know, is it just completely vacant or is it messy? The perception is going to go in their head that it’s a dirty home if that closets very much packed to the brim once they think it’s a dirty home, they think of it as the homeowner. What else don’t they take care of? So, you know, how much more is it going to cost me? So things that even might not even cost anybody anything. It’s just perception of a potential buyer that’s opening up those things and making sure that it’s in good condition and organized and everything else.
If you’re going to do anything, put it in the garage, take it all and put it in. Nobody’s judging a garage.
Tips on preparing your home for sale through home staging
- Yard Sale, Sell or Donate
If you want to rent some key pieces, and needs to move out some items, now is the time to have a yard sale or donate. Some of the things that are big or more in your living room.
Get rid of some items before placing new things, now is the time to move because you’re going to be moving at anyways.
- Freshen up what you have
If you already have full of furniture and the home stager is just coming in to freshen up what you have or add may be to it and take it a little bit away from it.
What he or she has to buy or anything else, of course, you’re going to pay for that, but if they’re just going to freshen up and you didn’t really buy some throw pillows and a couple of throw rugs.
Wendy Lynn also said "They can take all that to their new home with them. I’ve left people’s homes where they say, oh my gosh, I actually love my home now and I don’t even know if I want to sell. And I, I closed the ears of my realtor and I said, you do want a sell. It does not love it or lists it. It’s listed."
What some people are afraid of is actually making it so nice. The thing is that people always think that home staging is so expensive and that’s a myth. Because now you can make your house expensive if you want.
- Depersonalizing
So when a buyer walks into a home, they want that home to feel like it’s going to be their home, not somebody else’s home. When you walk into model homes, there are no personalized pictures everywhere. There is no family art gallery, walls everywhere, depersonalize, no religious items, no family photos everywhere. Make it look like a model home.
Especially, it’s special right now. You have to make it neutral.
- Decluttering
What you want to declutter and where do I put this stuff?
Don’t leave it in the house. Don’t cram it in a closet. Take out all the personal stuff, take down everything off the counters. That’s the time to get it in boxes. You’re going to have to move when your house sells anyway. Might as well start boxing up everything, labeling it. No need to rent storage, they can just put it in their garage. It will make the house nicely organized and locks in the house.
Professional home stagers are worth their weight in gold by making your South Florida home for sale more appealing to prospective buyers. We at The Stampini Team, we hire home staging professional, especially Wendy Lynn to make sure that your home will stand out on the South Florida real estate market. It will also help on selling it quickly and at a substantially higher price than an empty, white-walled, undecorated property would fetch.
Don’t want to shell out the dollars required to hire a professional stager? Believe it or not, it is possible to do the job yourself – as long as you’re armed with the right knowledge.
Whether you are a ("for sale by owner") or you’re working with a real estate professional, use the tips mentioned above to quickly and easily manage the staging process on your own, for far less outlay. Also, this checklist is a detailed guide that you can use when you decide to sell your home on your own.
Preparing your home for sale is a big task, but it can be an exciting one. These home staging tips will help you get your home ready for the market! If you have tips we missed to mention, please let us know. We would love to feature that on our next featured blog!
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