West Milford, NJ

According to Home Gain's latest survey of 1,000 Realtors (November 2009), home staging has a 586% return on investment. Home staging was listed as the second home improvement item that Realtors recommend for home sellers. In other words, if a home sellers spends $300 - $400 on professional home staging, their home will sell for $1,500 - $2,000 more.

Home staging is the process of de-personalizing a home and making it "buyer ready" so it appeals to the largest potential buyer audience possible using proven design techniques that highlight the home's best architectural features.

Home staging, also know as real estate staging, is not home decorating but rather an art that utilizes a home owners existing furniture, lighting, and art work to draw a potential buyers eye to the positive aspects of your home.

In this economy there are three things that sell a home:

1. Price - This is set by your Realtor

2. Location

3. Presentation - This is where your professional home stager comes in.

Why take the risk with your most valuable possession? For a quicker sale and to make more money, call in a professional home stager.

No one gets a second chance to make a first impression and when you are talking about real estate, the only way to generate new interest in your home is to drop your price to attract a different group of potential buyers.

The right time to call in a professional home stager is before you place your home's pictures online!

Kate's Home Staging and Redesign is now offering a Full Home Staging Services SALE to sell your home quickly for only $299. In other words, we will perfrom a Home Staging Consultation, produce a Home Staging Action Plan, and assist you in implementing your Action Plan with two hours of "hands-on" home staging for $299 (additional hours can be purchased for a discounted price of $50 an hour). This also includes digital picture taking that we can provide to you on a cd or send to your Realtor.

Kate's Home Staging and Redesign would love the opportunity to prepare your home for sale and is highly trained in what changes are required to attract the largest potential buyer audiences. Home staging is knowing when to stop accessorizing, even when you are using very tasteful pieces. Accessories need to be placed at various levels to attract buyers ~ eye level, floor level, and mid level. The proportion and scale of your accessories are also important so the desired result in achieved.

A staged home will sell for up to 10% more.

With the average home buyer being between the ages of 30 to 48 and expecting a "move-in" ready home, home staging is no longer a luxury and is a necessity in this economy. 94% of potential home buyers are turning to the Internet first to search for a home

Kate's Home Staging and Redesign serves the Rockland County and Orange County area of New York, Bergen County and Passaic County of New Jersey. Kate is an affiliate member of the Passaic County of Realtors. Contact Kate today to see how a home staging consultation can help sell your home, for more information please visit http://www.kateshomestaging.com or call 845-538-3623.

Even wonder why some homes draw in tons of buyers, while other homes just sit on the market for months, even years? There are several factors that will sell a home in today's difficult market, the price of your home needs to be competitve, your home's location, and your home's appearance (the inside and the outside).

In order to make all your rooms appear large and inviting, all additional furniture and clutter must be removed from every room before you place your home on the market. A potential buyer will even look in your master bedroom closet, bathroom vanity, and kitchen pantry. Everything needs to be organized and anything you have not used in years should be thrown away.

Any dark window drapes or shades need to be removed before you take any pictures to be placed online to try and sell your home. You blinds need to be cleaned and all your windows need to be washed. A dirty window will prevent light from entering the rooms and the rooms can appear dark and uninviting.

You outside landscape needs to be kept up even during the winter months. If it snows, all walkways needs to cleared off immediately and all outside lights should be replaced with the highest wattage that is permitted so your home shines at night. In the Spring and Fall, new mulch should always be applied to any beds to make then pop. Also, when you place your home on the market for sale, always leave a light during the night hours to make sure any potential buyers can see your house number.

The wall colors need to flow from room to room and should compliment each other. When you are selling a home, it is best to stick with more neutral colors (e.g. sage green, light yellow) to appeal to a larger buyer audience.

All your room accessories need to be larger to show up nicely online. One rule most home stagers use when preparing a home for a real estate open house, is not to use any accessories that are smaller than a cantelope. I agree with this rule and apply it as well when staging homes for sale.

All of the above steps need to be done before any digital pictures are taken. Today, over 85% of potential home buyers are searching for a new home on the Internet. Your home's online MLS presence needs to show how great your home really is. Make sure all your pictures are bright and taken from correct angles. If you need help with this ask your Realtor or local home stager. Homes that have 20 or more pictures online tend to generate the most traffic, this is another important fact to consider.

Good luck with your home sale and remember to prepare your home before you take any digital pictures.

-Kate

Kate's Home Staging and Redesign now sells semi-custom window coverings at discount prices. Our window coverings include roman shades, Levolor and Dynasty blinds, faux wood blinds, bamboo blinds, woven wood blinds, cornices, valances, sheers, and drapes. Our roman shades can be ordered in 100% pure silk, linen, cotton, or designer fabric. We also offer Benjamin Moore color consultations and test color boards, interior decorating, home staging, and redesign. Please visit http://www.kateshomestaging.com for more info or call 845-538-3623. All window covering appointments include a free 30 minute design consultation for the same room. We serve Passaic County and Bergen County of New Jersey and Rockland County and Orange County of New York, basically the lower Hudson Valley. We are an affiliate member of the Passaic County of Realtors, a member of RESA, ASHSR.

Priced properly with aggresive marketing any home can be under contract in 30 days or less, The Three Things Sellers Need Today Are, EXPOSURE, EXPOSURE, EXPOSURE, if your shopping for a discount broker and you have landed here please keep searching! if your looking to get your home sold for the most money and least amount of time YOU HAVE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE!

Out of the many competetive advantages I have over most of the industry, only one advantage is most important to sellers. EXPOSURE. The question that we answer the most is "How are you going to market my home for sale?" Typically, a realtor has paper marketing (flyers and magazines), Multiple Listing Service (MLS), and word of mouth. You are currently looking at the biggest asset to a real estate company in today's new era of the industry. INTERNET MARKETING.

Statistically, 90% of prospective home buyers start their home search on the internet.

So if there are 20,000 total searches for homes for sale in Nutley, Belleville and Clifton NJ , normally I would receive nearly 10,000 unique visitors of those 20,000 which exposes all of my real estate and listings for sale more so than any other type of marketing.

Nearly 20% of my visitors come from another continent. If you don't think foreign nationals are buying Nutley, Belleville and Clifton NJ property, think again. It is happening frequently every single day. My website is simply a tool for anyone online to view Nutley, Belleville and Clifton NJ homes for sale, most importantly my very own listings. Of course, I do the typical paper marketing, MLS, and other exposure techniques, but using internet marketing in conjunction with a powerful Google, Yahoo & Bing-popular website, I can expose your property to tens of thousands of prospective buyers every month, not to mention I have a database of over 700 buyers that is constantly growing I create the most powerful sense of exposure you can get today.

Sellers looking for turn key realtor services, I would value an opportunity to earn your business. I will meet and you may interview me to any extent. If you believe there is a better person for the job of selling your home, there are no hard feelings. I would only wish you success. Let me show you what our competetive edge is over everyone else. Is it worth an hour to meet? Call Me Today at 973-846-0065 to find out how I am better.

Homes for sale that have 20 or more pictures on the Internet get the most traffic from potential buyers. Virtual shows are also very attractive to potential buyers. The Internet is how we attract the buyers into your home in today's technology driven market.

It is extremely important the you prepare your home before you take your MLS pictures that will get posted on the Internet for everyone to see. The home with the best Internet pictures will most likely get the most buyer traffic to its' front door.

Here is a quick list of what you should do:

1. Clean each room. Get rid of any clutter and make sure all the counters sparkle and look fanstastic.

2. Bathroom. Please close the toilet lids and put in fresh towels. Put your personal items and toothbrushes away please. Absolutely no medications on the sink.

3. Outside your home. Pick up all your yard debris and remove the cars from your driveway, this will make the picture look even better.

4. Bring in some fresh flowers for your tables. I always love fresh flowers, besides the smell they also look great in pictures.

5. Garbage cans. Please remove them from the room prior to taking your picture, a potential buyer does not want to see your over-flowing kitchen garbage can or your bathroom garbage.

6. Lighting. Take pictures with your lights turned on and off and with your blinds opened and closed. This way you can post the pictures that look the best online.

Preparing your home before you take your MLS pictures is very important since over 85% of potential home buyers are starting their home searches on the Internet. We cannot ignore the importance of technology when marketing your homes today!

Also, do not forget to crop those digital pictures after you take them. If the picture is very dark, please use the photo light adjustment feature and lighten those photos up. You can also try the "auto-adjust" feature to see if this helps your pictures. If a potential buyer cannot see what the picture actually is, they may more on the the next online listing that has clear, bright pictures.

If you need help with this process please contact a local Realtor or home stager for help. Remember, if a potential buyer does not like how your pictures look on the Internet chances are they will not come to your house to look at it.

Remember, if you are planning on selling your home also make sure you leave your light on during the evening hours and that your house number is clearly marked. A potential buyer may try to drive buy your home after work to take a look at your external curb appeal! This is why it is important to keep those yards clean and neat.

Good luck with your Home Sale.

-Kate

Contact Kate today to see how a home staging consultation can help sell your home, for more information please visit http://www.kateshomestaging.com or call 845-538-3623.

Kate's Home Staging and Redesign serves the Rockland County and Orange County area of New York, Bergen County and Passaic County of New Jersey. Kate is an affiliate member of the Passaic County of Realtors and hosted the affilitiate mixer tonight at the Greenhouse Cafe in Wayne (Thank you everyone for coming and showing your support, I really appreciate it and enjoyed getting to know all of you more!) Kate's Home Staging and Redesign is now offering Full Digital Styling Services to sell your home quickly. In other words, we will bring in the accessories, we will stage your home, we will re-take all the digital pictures, and then we will load these pictures into a virtual show to help sell your home. The virtual show is being offered to all our clients FREE of CHARGE to help SELL your home.

Kate's Home Staging and Redesignis offering a new service to all of their clients. In addition to home staging, vacant home staging, interior redesign, color consultations, custom wood signs and molding, amazing vendor discounts, and organization services, Kate's Home Staging and Redesign is now offering Full Digital Styling Servicesto sell your home quickly.

In other words, we will bring in the accessories, we will stage your home, we will re-take all the digital pictures, and then we will load these pictures into a virtual show to help sell your home. The virtual show is being offered to all our clients FREE of CHARGE to help SELL your home. Yes, you did read that right.

FREE VIRTUAL SHOWS WITH HOME STAGING SERVICES!

Once Kate's Home Staging and Redesign is finished cropping and working with your digital pictures and virtual show, we will email you or your Realtor a link to be used to market your home on the Internet.

Kate's Home Staging and Redesignwill provide you with a CD copy of all the digital pictures we have taken to be used in your online market campaign to sell your homes.

This is extremely important today, since over 85% of potential home buyers are starting their home searches on the Internet. We cannot ignore the importance of technology when marketing your homes today!

Kate's Home Staging and Redesign Full Digital Styling Servicesare ideal for those "do-it-yourself" homeowners who are selling their homes by themselves. For a small fee, I will take your pictures for you and create your virtual shows and email you the link that you can place on the For Sale By Owner web site to help market your home.

Homes for sale that have 20 or more pictures on the Internet get the most traffic from potential buyers. Virtual shows are also very attractive to potential buyers. The Internet is how we attract the buyers into your home in today's technology driven market.

Contact Kate today to see how a home staging consultation can help sell your home, for more information please visit http://www.kateshomestaging.com or call 845-538-3623.

Kate's Home Staging and Redesignserves the Rockland County and Orange County area of New York, and Passaic County of New Jersey. Kate is an affiliate member of the Passaic County of Realtors.