Prepping Your Home for Prospective Buyers in Cary, North Carolina

Prior to placing your residence on the market, consider the best way to sell your house: well-planned home staging. Some advantages to home staging include fewer days on the market and higher selling prices. If you want to sell your house quickly, go for a well-planned approach to home staging.

Look at staging your home as creating an "image" for your house similar to what a manager would do for a high profile celebrity. Just like creating a style draws more positive publicity to a public figure, staging makes your home a more desirable listing on the market.

Prepping your property for an Open House shouldn't be thought of as a nerve-racking experience. It can turn into an eye-opening and inventive task. Together, we'll work to get a top dollar bid for your property. Below are a few home staging tips to get you going:

Curb Appeal Checklist

First, look at the exterior of your home, or your curb appeal. Look at the exterior of your home from a street view. What jumps out at you? What wonderful characteristics seem hidden?Understanding this helps us to decide what plan of action we can use to invite buyers from the street and into your home. If your home isn't pretty on the outside with refreshed paint and colorful garden plants it's time to get those things done. Follow the Curb Appeal Checklist and increase your home's final selling price.

Welcome Home Checklist

Does your home seem to say, "This is Your Next House" to a buyer? Touring your home with a buyer's eye, I'll recommend adjustments that build up Open House appeal. I'll tell you put in storage things that give the appearance of clutter. Tabletops should be free and clear. Knickknacks, souvenirs, family photos, and play time artwork should get moved out of sight. I can help you simplify the decor of house. Disheveled or messy places make your home seem smaller and buyers have a more difficult time seeing themselves calling your property "home".

I know instantly what a room's best features are and how to highlight them. Changes that directly impact your sale price include easy-to-fix items like furniture pieces that should get rearranged, rooms that need new paint, carpet that needs to be steamed, fixtures that need shining, and windows that need washing

Buyers' agents know that their clients want to see a home that charms them. Items that could be too personal should be put away in order for your property to impress buyers while on the market.

Setting the Stage

At your Open House, we want to engage the buyer's senses. Dark living areas can really dampen a buyer's spirits, so we'll do things like part the curtains and reduce shadows where needed to invite the buyer inside. Together we'll enhance the air of the house with enjoyable music to listen to while guests look around your home and ensure a delightful aroma flows from every room. We'll include cozy-looking bedspreads, and pillows on your couch and bed. We want buyers to feel like your current house is their future home.