CHAPTER 5 Ready, set, sell! Prepping your Home for the Market
While cleaning, painting and minor repairs will prepare your home for sale, staging is the process of showcasing your home for sale. Staging and preparation for selling is turning your “home” into a market commodity. I like to think of it as a beauty contest. All the pretty ladies (or guys) are up on stage for the judging. We want to be the prettiest, best value and most enticing so we catch the buyer’s eye in those first three seconds. Buyers will actually disqualify themselves based on the pictures they see online.
We want to create the vision that the Avatar we have built for your home is drawn to it from the first glimpse online. We will discuss your homes' avatar later in the book.
Staging is the act of sprucing up and
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