When you are meeting someone for the first time, you want to
make sure that you are looking your very best, whether this be on a first date
or for a job interview or meeting your significant other’s parents for the
first time…. Bottom line is, when you are meeting someone for the first time,
you want to make a good first impression.
You want to make sure you’re wearing nice, clean clothes, with your hair
combed and looking your best, to impress.
You wouldn’t partake in any of these appointments with terrible hygiene
and wrinkly clothes; bad breath and body odour would you? Of course you
wouldn’t.
So for something that is worth so much to you, something
that you’re hoping to get a greater return from when selling it, why wouldn’t
you want to show off this major investment in the best possible light possible?
Home Staging isn’t a gimmick, Home Staging isn’t a quick,
simple thing and Home Staging isn’t invaluable!
Home Staging is important when selling a home because you
hire someone who has never seen the home before. For the Stager, it is a clean
slate. A Home Stager will come in and assess the home, with an unbiased opinion
and evaluate the home right away and make a list of what needs to be done to
it, to make it more market ready to list it to sell.
Sometimes when you have lived in a home for a long period of
time, its easy to become accustomed to what is in the home. Certain pieces of
furniture being in certain spots, not changing a wall colour or flooring, growing
comfortable with the accessories and pictures around the home, that make it
your home. Except a Home Stager comes in and assess it from a homebuyer’s point
of view. The Home Stager knows right
away what needs to be changed or moved around or updated to sell the home for
the greatest market value that it can receive.
A Home Stager is extremely valuable because, to the Home
Stager, the home that they are assessing isn’t their own personal space. The
Home Stager doesn’t see the memories that took place within the home. So the
Stager doesn’t have a personal connection to the home and has the ability to
judge the space, without having an emotional connection.
I believe that is the biggest issue with homeowners and
selling their home. They have an emotional connection to the homes that they are
selling. Therefore it is hard to know what needs to be packed away, what needs
to be moved around or what needs to be updated. Homeowners will tend to think “well
it’s worked well enough for me to have the table and chairs there, it should
work well enough for someone else” or “I’m not going to bother changing that or
spending the money to change that when the next owners are just going to rip it
down and build something better anyway”. But the reality is, you don’t know
what the next owners are going to do to the space. Maybe the next owners don’t
have a great deal of money and would be quite content with having things the
way they are left in the space, because they don’t have the money to update it
right away. The bottom line is, if by
making changes around the home would make the house sell better, make them. If
it emphasizes the home and its features, make the change.
It’s amazing how such a little change can make a big
difference to a home.
Investing in a Home Stager will be much less than a selling
reduction and you will realize the greatest potential return on your investment
in the smallest amount of time!
Home Stagers are valuable, don’t think that they aren’t!
