Inside Houston Real Estate

What is home staging and how will it help you sell your home? Staging your home for sale in Houston can quite literally be the difference between a quick sale or a long listing time, you really need to set the stage for your potential buyers. You want the home to look good, you want it to have the right atmosphere to attract buyers, and you want the first impression to blow them away.

Staging a home can mean sprucing up the paint job, eliminating clutter, moving furniture around – practically anything that makes your home look better to the buyer is staging. Whether you decide to do it yourself or hire a home staging professional, it can, and will, help you sell your home.

Here are a few pointers on how to stage your home and how each suggestion can help sell your home faster or for more money:

1. Style – Although the decorating styles of Houston homes for sale range widely, you want to make sure your home doesn’t have too much of a good thing. Too much decorating style overwhelms the potential buyers' senses and doesn't allow them to imagine adding their own personality to the home. Try to look at your home from a buyer's point of view and design it to sell.

How it helps: Furnished homes with just a hint of style help buyers see possibilities they can bring to the home such as a different wall color, new curtains or hardwood floors versus carpeting. The easier you make it for the buyers to see themselves living in the home, the better chance it has of selling.

2. Clutter – In real estate terms, “clutter” is any personal touch that makes it obviously yours. Remember, you’re trying to sell your home, not show people what a great decorator you are. Before you start with open houses, pack up all your personal pictures, knick-knacks and bric-a-brac.

How it helps: Removing your personal clutter lets potential buyers see it as their own. No matter how much you love the items, leaving personal touches is, invariably, a turnoff to the buyer. It makes it darn near impossible to see the house as anything but yours.

3. Cook – Before an open house, start baking chocolate chip cookies or an apple pie – something that smells good to most people.

How it helps: Houston homes for sale should feel, well, homey. Anything they can see, smell, touch or feel should be set up for maximum selling affect. Baking smells are an excellent touch.

Home staging will help get your home ready to sell, and set you well on your way. If you need help staging and selling your home, I'd love to lend a hand. Contact me today at Chempel@securemortgagecompany.com or call me at (713)623-5195 for more information.

Keyword: Houston Homes for sale

Links:

Design to sell

http://www.globalspan.net/staging.htm

Get your home ready to sell

http://www.life123.com/career-money/real-estate/selling-home/get-your-home-ready-to-sell.shtml