will add a level of sophistication to your home, releasing extra endorphins within the bodies of your potential buyers, and providing them with a sense of wealth as they stroll through the beautifully-arranged home.
HIRING A PRO VS. DOING IT YOURSELF
Most home sellers will sell only a few homes in their lifetime. It is not what they do for a living, therefore, they are not experts in the field. Listing a home for sale consists of many more activities than sticking a sign in the front yard and waiting for the phone to ring and offers to arrive. What selling a house takes most of is time. Even sellers who engage the services of a professional real estate agent have an enormous amount of work to do to ready the home for the market. The cleaning, landscaping, emptying, repairing, touching up, improving, and maintaining the house in a pristine condition is an enormous investment of time and effort, even if commercial concerns are used for part of the painting, cleaning, landscaping, etc. Most sellers have other commitments while selling a house — like a full-time job, raising a family, and meeting other obligations. To conserve as much time as possible, the seller will want to delegate tasks where practical (i.e., hire a neighborhood teenager to maintain the lawn), thus freeing the seller to focus on other aspects of the move. A professional home stager can be a seller’s lifesaver. Staging experts have expertise, valuable experience (often in your own neighborhood or area), and resources (i.e., furniture and accessories) they can put to work on your home to increase its salability.
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