No matter how great your Simi Valley home is, it is always a great idea to get new perspective on how to enhance it’s appeal to any buyer that comes for a showing. You may have features of your home that you are not aware of that could be very attractive to a prospective buyer. These features need to be spotlighted and staging is what will help show off your home so that prospective buyer will not miss all the great things you have loved about your home.
What always amazes me is the resistance that sellers have to hiring a stager to help them ready their home for sale. Staging could be as little as a few hundred dollars to as much as a few thousand dollars depending if you need to rent furniture, paint or take on other more major enhancements.
But let’s put this in perspective……….Most people I know would not hesitate to spend $200 to have their car detailed (staged) before selling their car.
If you sell your car between $10,000 – $12,000; that would be 1.6% – 2.0% of the selling price of the car and people do this all the time without a second thought.
Consider minor staging at $500.00 on a house that is selling for $750,000; this is less than one tenth of one percent of the total sales price. A person’s home is probably the largest, most significant investment they have and the very same people who have no qualms in spending 1.5% in detailing a car they will sell; will not even consider staging because of the cost.
Here are some staging tips from Barbara Corcoran of CNBC. While her report does not talk about the cost of staging, it was very interesting to watch her pick apart this house so quickly and the significance of the items she points out were very important. Having that other set of eyes to look at your home will save you a ton of headaches.
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