Linda Thompson

Can a home sell for $14,000 more than its first offer? It can, and has in Fresno CA, due to the wise decision of a smart real estate agent and the sellers. They chose to have Selling By Design-Staging stage their home which resulted in a quick and profitable sale. The home received a full price offer the day after it had been staged.

Here is an excerpt from an email I received from the agent regarding the referral service, who recommended Selling By Design-Staging, and the subsequent staging and sale of the home.

"My listing was not selling despite the seller moving out. They had cleaned, and I had four open houses.

It was a small house and looked REALLY tiny when empty so people thought there was no room for furniture. I clicked on the link from Home Care recommending :linda@sellingbydesign-staging.com Linda Thompson.When the house was staged my guests wanted to sit and read there while I showed it.

Here is a quick summary of the sale.

• Highest offer prior to staging: $165,000. Seller was not happy.

• One day after staging the home sold for $179,000. Seller was very happy.

• Total costs to seller: $1030 (costs included the cleaning fee.)
  

Net return to seller: $12,970 for the investment of $1,030.

It is our job to to get the seller the best price and make every one involved happy with the results. Linda delivered.

Thank you home care! "

Before and after pictures of the home.

As a professional home stager, I visit the mls on a regular basis to see what's out there on the market. Many times the main living areas look nice and maybe even professionally done. Then the photo tour goes to the leftover rooms, the spare or the "no one knows what to do with" room.

Here the visual impact falls apart. Some of these rooms are used as storage for mismatched furniture, or worse anything that the owners don't know where else to put. A room might be used a guest room, but the old bedding and again, the mismatched or outdated furniture gives a bland unappealing vibe.

The main living areas may have been painted recently, but alas these poor "step-rooms" still sport the original builder grade paint. These unstaged rooms can kill the good feelings that the potential buyers had when they first entered the staged part of the home.

An uncluttered, warm, neutral, yet beautiful atmosphere is a must in every room of a home that is on the market. Owners, ignore valuable real estate, by overlooking some rooms thinking no one will notice. They will. At least seek the advice of a home staging professional about how to make every room in your home be enticing to potential buyers.

A staging consultation could save you money, make you money and save you a lot of anguish from having your home sits on the market while its staged competition with their great mls photos sell.

Leave no room behind or unstaged.

Not Uncommon In Many Homes-The Let's Put It Here For Now Room

Same Room Staged As An Office

In real estate staging, or home staging, we stagers see things we shouldn't see (and really don't want to see.) Real estate agents and prospective home buyers also see all kinds of things that they wish they hadn't. Since many, many a great blog has been shared about this on Active Rain, I will let you remember some of the humorous and sometimes horrible examples, so I won't go into detail.

One thing a home owner should see before they agree to a price reduction (assuming that the home is fairly priced to begin with,) is a home staging professional. Actually many of the afore mentioned things we shouldn't see could be avoided if only the home owner had consulted with a home stager prior to listing the home. It could be as simple as decluttering, or addressing that strange, lingering odor that only an outsider can detect.

Often, as in the case of nicely decorated homes, lived in for 20 plus years, some gentle, but firm suggestions about updating are needed. Heavy custom drapes with big cornices, harvest gold anything, and precious family photos should be packed away. Stagers can kindly, but persuasively suggest such changes. It's our specialty. We are trained and experienced in this.

All homes should have the advantage of some aspect of professional home staging, be it a simple consultation about what the owner can do to spiff it up before listing it, or a full staging job by a home stager.

So, home owners, before you agree to a price reduction of thousands of dollars, consider investing between 0.5% to 3% of your home's sales price on professional staging help. It's your money. It's your call. Before you drop the price make one simple call to your local home stager. Save yourselves and the buying public from seeing what shouldn't be seen.

Here are some examples of happy sellers who did just that Happy because their homes SOLD!

Halloween is almost here. Christmas decorating time is near!

Let Selling By Design-Staging give you a hand this year.

Selling By Design-Staging will:

• Help you unpack your seasonal decorations.
• Assist you in decorating your home.
• Do all your holiday decorating.
• Help you after the holidays to repack and put your decorations away for next year.
• Help decorate for holiday parties.
• We can also help you choose new decorations if you want a new holiday look.

Selling By Design-Staging will help take the stress out of your busy holiday season by making your home festive, leaving you more time for other tasks or letting you relax and enjoy the season with family and friends.

Call today for an appointment. 431-5822

www.sellingbydesign-staging.net

It’s nearly time to Deck The Halls!

ItDoes that thought fill you with joy the world or make you cringe at the thought of all that work?

“Didn’t we just take down the decorations last week?

Take heart! You’re not alone. Selling By Design-Staging is here to help make your holidays happy.

We can:

• Help you make room in your home for seasonal decorations by recommending which home accessories to pack and store until after the holidays when you can then put them back into their original spots.

• Unpack decorations.

• Make suggestions for new decorations if you want a new look.

• Do all, or a portion of the decorating, leaving you more time in your busy holiday schedule.
• We will also decorate for holiday parties!

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