Leave the Home Staging to the Professionals. Please!

Homeowners, If you plan on selling your home anytime soon, please, please, please - Leave the staging to a professional stager and leave the selling to a professional Real Estate Agent. It could save you lots of time and money in the long run.

Selling a home is not as easy as some people might want to believe it to be, if it were, then there'd be no need for real estate agents, inspectors, mortgage companies, stagers, photographers, pest inspections, etc... We are all experts at what we do and even if you think you know what you're doing, finding out that your wrong during your own home sales transaction could be a very costly mistake.

Staging is indeed not an easy task either, so don't plan on doing it yourself without some professional guidance from an experienced stager. Did you know that most staging companies offer services to help guide you through the staging process so you can do it yourself? And at a cost equivalent to a home inspection?

Here's a true example of how things might turn out:

In this scenario, we have a homeowner, who decided that hiring a Real Estate Agent was the right thing to do before putting her house on the market. Her new agent strongly recommended that the homeowner meet with a staging professional to get some ideas and recommendations on how to properly prepare the home for the market. This is where things start going wrong: The home owner said she didn't need a professional stager because her house was already staged. She had done it herself and gave each room a purpose and made all the necessary changes.

This is a picture of the room before, just a big empty room.

Then after of the homeowner's interpretation of what the empty Living Room should look like staged.

I never did get the opportunity to meet with the homeowner, but was able to view the house while it was on the market and my professional opinion was that it was not properly staged at all. Unfortunately, I watched the house sit on the market for several more months, until the price was finally brought down around $75,000. Only then did the house sell.

I'm amazed at what some people's idea of staging is versus what it really should be. Now, I'm not saying that this is everyone's idea of staging and some of you might even be really good at it - who knows? But do you really want to find out if you're doing it correctly or not on your own house and find out months and $75,000 later that you'd made a mistake?

Simply Staging has been offering Home Staging Solutions for both the "Vacant" and the "Not So Vacant" homes in El Dorado County and The Greater Sacramento area for more than 4 years. For your proposal, give us a call at (530) 417-1337 and see what it takes to get your home "Sell Ready".