Teresa Meyer-Home Staging Cincinnati-OH. Stage a Star: Home Stager Cincinnati

Here at Stage A Star, we work with lots of Cincinnati Investors. We stage at all price points for our Investor clients and those properties have been selling fast! I love seeing the transformation of these investment homes and being a part of their success.

I wanted to share with you a particular home of one of our very talented Investors. This was a higher end investment at $299K for the Cincinnati real estate market. We stage investment properties anywhere from $60K and up so this one was DEF. a price point that needed to sell quickly. It was also a tougher price range in the Loveland, Ohio area (suburb of Cincy) because there are so much competition!

The 2 major drawbacks to this house was the steep driveway that buyers aren't crazy about around here and the backyard was really small. Our goal was to have potential buyer's fall in love with the home as soon as they walked through the doors. Well, I'm happy to report that we acheived that goal! This beautiful home received 2 offers and had an accepted contract within 10 days of listing it.

Here are the Stats:

Listed: April 29th, 2011

Offer: The first offer came 1 day after listing it. It was too low so moving on with it...

Feedback: Home had 8-10 showings with negative feedback about the driveway and yard (no surprise!)Interior feedback was excellent. (yeh!)

Offer: The 2nd Offer came after 10 Days on the market.

SOLD: 98.5% of the list price and offically closed June 24th, 2011

Here are some of the Before/After Photos. Please excuse my "Before" quality- my camera decided to kick the bucket that day so I had to resort to my iPhone.

Staging is working in our Cincinnati real estate market. Are you ready to stage yours? Just give me a call or send an email and I'd be happy to chat with your about your particular property and if staging can help get it SOLD too.

All My Best,

Here in Cincinnati, more and more homeowners and agents are staging and of course that means that myself and team at Stage A Star have been staying very busy. I'm going to dive right in and start with this property that we staged back in September 2010. I wanted to feature this awhile back but never had the chance to fully finish the blog entry.

This home was on the market for 8 months and after it was staged received 3 offers!! AND it was somewhat dated. While we always recommend doing some minor updates to help sell a house, sometimes this just isn't an option. This example I'm going to share with you is a somewhat dated property with great bones and location that was staged only.

Here goes:

January 2010...a house in the suburbs of Cincinnati called Green Twp. is listed. The homeowners are hopeful for a quick sale. After all, they've already moved out and the house has been freshly painted and is spic and span. It's been a great house for many years for the homeowners and they are confident someone else will think so too!

196 Days Later- September 2010:

Our homeowners are pretty frustrated. The feedback they keep hearing is the house is DATED esp. the original 1950's bathrooms (those buyers don't find that charming?...) and the cork floor in the kitchen. They're tired of the negative feedback and no offers. Maybe its time to look into "staging" and see if that can finally do the trick?

Meet The Stager:

I met with the homeowners at their vacant property and right away noticed it was a very attractive ranch on a quiet cul de sac street lined by big, beautiful trees. Who wouldn't want to live here? Inside, the home had great hardwood floors and a really interesting fireplace.

The not so nice features potential buyers were calling "dated" were the kitchen and bathrooms.

The surprise feature of the house was the basement. A nice sized finished room was hidden away with an awesome bar and even a beer keg built right in!

My overall impression? A really great house that was not showing well at all. Being vacant, the "dated" parts were sticking out like a sore thumb and buyers were unable to see past this. They weren't able to see the "good" selling features that this home had to offer.

The Staging Secret Revealed:

Staging these spaces would help show potential buyers that you can take something dated and still make it look great and very workable. The homeowner most likely will update the kitchen and bathrooms down the road but it's so important to show them how they can make the space work NOW. We also wanted to showcase the great layout of the home and define how each room could work for their lifestyle.

Success!

Guess what? Not only did this home sell within weeks of staging, the homeowners had THREE offers in 2 days! How about that! They also ended up selling it for 99.3 % of the list price!**

Here's what our happy sellers had to say:

Teresa:
It was a pleasure meeting you. Our home at 5572 Edger Drive had been on the market since the first of the year 2010. When you entered the home you immediately understood that it did not show well without furniture. I remember you saying that you wanted to show off the good things and minimize the bad.You were instantly able to visualize and plan a way to show the house for the potential it had. The week after your photos were posted, we had two offers one day and another potential buyer the next. We have sold our house because of your incredible talent and ability to project the home’s assets. You and your crew are to be commended for your skill and professionalism, and we are extremely happy with the results. We would certainly recommend your services.

Kathy & John- Green Twp./Cincinnati, OH.

Here's some of the Before/After photos. Staging really did have a big impact on the presentation which led to an unbelievable 3 offers after being on the market for 8 months.

No More Stress and Frustration....

I hope sharing this success story inspired and gave you hope that your property can sell too! I'd love to talk with you about your particular property and let's see if staging can't help you too.

All My Best,

It's been a little while since my last blog back in the start of the Spring selling season where I encouraged home sellers to position themselves in the upcoming Spring months of March-April-May. This was so they would be SOLD by the beginning of summer and moving on to more enjoyable things in life than stressing over selling a home in this challenging market.  If you missed it, you can read it HERE

I thought it would be fun to revisit the homes that I featured back in March and see how they did now that it is officially SUMMER (June 2nd as I write this...)   The wonderful home sellers and their real estate agents were proactive, properly prepared and staged these properties for a successful sale.  And you know what?  All of these homes had A LOT of competition to go up against but as you'll see here- they had no problem selling their home! 

As you read through the results, keep in mind that should you choose to stage your property moving into the summer season of June-July- August, you could be SOLD too.  We have so many more success stories that I will be sharing.  This market is difficult but Staging is making a difference!

Hyde Park-Cincinnati, Ohio: SOLD 90 Days-93% List Price

Norwood-Cincinnati, Ohio: SOLD 9 Days-99% List Price

Hyde Park-Cincinnati, Ohio: SOLD 1 Day-98% List Price

Hyde Park-Cincinnati, Ohio: SOLD 3 Days-97% List Price

Indian Hill-Cincinnati, Ohio: SOLD 54 Days (previously on market for 297 days!)-93% List Price

Kenwood-Cincinnati, Ohio: SOLD 1 Day-100% List Price-First Buyers in Bought It!- Was previously on market 6 months

Staging got the results...SOLD!  We celebrated with these happy homeowners when they got their offers!  I love getting that phone call or email with the wonderful news- makes my WEEK!   Here's what one SOLD client had to say about working with Stage A Star:

"I highly recommend using Teresa's services at Stage A Star. We had been trying to sell one of our properties for 6 months with no results. This was a completely renovated home in the Indian Hill school district. As soon as Teresa's company came in and staged the home - gorgeous - the first person who toured the home bought it! Wow, I wished we had staged it long ago. It is amazing the results a staged home gives, even to a completely renovated home. The price was well worth the results. Teresa was very personable and very willing to help. She goes above and beyond to help you sell your home. Folks have a hard time visualizing living in a home that is empty or on the other end, cluttered or outdated. We will be using Teresa for our rehab projects moving forward. Stage A Star will actually SAVE you money by selling your house faster and for a better price. You can't lose!"

Dawn, Investor- Cincinnati, OH.

Would you like to know more about our Staging services?  I'd love to chat with you about your property and see if Staging might help you get your property sold too! 

 All My Best,

Here at Stage A Star, our team has been bustling since the beginning of the year.  See, when you are in the home staging business, Spring comes early for us as we help sellers prepare and stage their homes for this very important time of the year.    

As a seller, you should be thinking in terms of putting your best foot forward in the next 3 months- April, May, June.   Whether you are putting your home up for sale for the first time or you have been listed since last year in 2010....now is the time to position yourself to SELL and take advantage of the Spring market. 

Are you sure you are doing everything you can to make the best impression possible? We'd love to talk with you about your property and how we might be able to help to get you SOLD in the next few months.

Here's a sampling of some of our recent home staging projects here in our beautiful city of Cincinnati. I love living and family room spaces so I've featured these rooms in the photos below.  Check out our Facebook fanpage to view more detailed photos of these amazing homes and we'd love it if you became a FAN while you're there too!

Here's to a successful sale in the Spring!

All My Best,

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