Make Your House Look Good Enough Through House Staging Methods

By Seana Witts

If you have really made up your mind on selling your house, make sure it looks good! You should check out every aspect to see what needs repairs and other works. However, if you are so confident your house can bring in the big bucks quickly, you may decide to sell it as it is. In this case, just double your efforts in advertising your house so that those interested will take a look at your house first. If you ignore the demands for even minor renovations, your house may not get sold.

If you're not quite sure if your home appears ready enough for selling, the best thing to do is to hire a person from a home staging business. They can give you recommendations on how your house should look to snare the first client that takes a look at it. If you think this will cost you too much, you can decide on what should be done yourself. However, this will ultimately cost you more in the end. You'll end up doing renovations over and over again because no possible buyer seems to appreciate the way you've renovated your house.

You should not expect people involved in the home staging business to just take a few glances at your house and come up with a prescription on what should be done. They are professionals that see their job as an art that requires perfection. You can tell them apart from an interior designer. They do not get inside the house and redo everything including the decorations that you have. Instead, they will just improve your house and make it presentable enough to catch the interest of people who are searching for a home to buy.

In fact, they may even suggest that you keep some decorations hidden until the house is sold. Since they require no extravagant renovations, you don't have to spend much. The only things that will probably need your money are paint and other house construction materials. These people believe that too much decors or even bright paint colours will simply cover the important aspects that people like to see when buying a house. That's why they are very minimalistic compared to interior designers.

If you decide not to use the services of someone working in the home staging business, you do have the option of simply trusting the real estate agent. This may get you a cut in your expenses but you also lessen the chances of your home being sold earlier. A real estate agent can only talk his way into convincing a potential buyer to purchase. However, they run out of excuses once the client finds out that there are many things that need to be repaired. People buying homes are more prudent now. They don't always believe in everything that the agent says; they wait until they see the house.

Having the help of home staging business people, you can be better assured that a possible buyer's visit to your home will turn out to be fruitful. They won't just take care of the home's interiors. They can redo the outside too, from the sidewalk, to the lawn, to the backyard. Businesses rely so much on promotion and packaging to sell their products. It's the same with selling your home; you need to package it in a way that ensures it will sell. - 32399

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Tips To Getting The Exterior Of Your Lakefront House Ready To Sale

By Hubert Miles

If you are thinking about putting your lakefront house on the market, you may be looking for ways to help your lake house sell faster and for more money. Staging your home is the act of setting your home up so that it is visually appealing to potential buyers.

To be really effective, you should look at both the interior and the exterior of your lake house. Here are three tips to get you started with the exterior of your lake house:

1. Evaluate what prospective buyers see from the street. By standing at the street, what do these buyers see as the drive down the driveway? Avoid making a negative impression. Is the landscaping well maintained? Is paint peeling off the front of the house or fencing? If they see that the house appears neglected, they will be more critical of the rest of the house. This can also reflect badly on the interior, even if you spent a lot of money to fix it up.

2. Next, step outside your front door and close the door; then stand on the stoop and look around for 5 minutes. While the Realtor fumbles for keys and tries to figure out how to open the door, the clients are standing behind and looking around. So what are they seeing? Dead plants, old Halloween decorations in the middle of January, cobwebs? Again, not a good first impression!

It will pay dividends to make the effort to clean and make the surrounding area look nice. Why not go ahead and put a fresh coat of paint on any furniture or accessories.

3. Don't forget the backyard. While that might not be part of the potential buyers first impression experience, if the lake is visible from the house it will certainly make a lasting impression. Pull up weeds, water plants, do some sweeping or raking and maybe even purchase new furniture or accessories (plant pots, bird houses, etc.). If a dock is present, has it been cared for? Are there weak or missing boards that need to be replaced?

And the biggest tip of all? Think of yourself as the potential buyer looking at your lakefront house for the very first time. What impressions do you get? Would you buy your lake house? What changes would you like to see made before you put an offer to purchase your house?

You don't have to spend a lot of money to prep your lake house for sale. What ever you do put into your lake house you'll likely get back by selling the home quickly and for your asking price. - 32399

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Getting The Inside Of Your Lakefront Home Ready To Put On The Market

By Hubert Miles

Are you thinking about putting your lakefront home up for sale, but not sure where to begin? Scared it will take a long time to sell, or that you wont receive the price you are looking for? Consider staging your lake home, i.e., arranging the lake home to peak a buyers interest in the property.

A good idea is to stage the inside and the outside of the lake home you are selling. This article will discuss three tips you can use to get started on the interior of your lakefront home:

1. Remove unneeded items. By removing unneeded items you can make your home feel larger than it may actually be. Remove things that you do not have to have like furniture, seasonal decorations, seasonal clothing, and other housewares that you can live without for a short period of time. You can either store these items in a garage or portable storage building.

2. Organize your closets and cupboards- put like colors together, pants together, skirts together, shirts together etc. Why you ask? Because the closets will appear bigger. An organized closet looks bigger, and you want your closets and cabinets to look as spacious as possible.

3. Create a show model lake home. After you are done packing up your personal belongings, you can hang pictures of boats or other lake pictures in place of your personal photos. You can also place decorative items like boat ores, signs, and plants in corners or shelves. Place some decorated canisters or fruit in some attractive baskets or glass vases in stead of counter top appliances that you don't need.

Another tip that should not be overlooked is to think of yourself as the potential buyer that is seeing your lakefront home for the very first time. If there are things that you would like changed, it is likely that others will feel the same way. Try to make your home look the best.

You don't have to spend a lot of money to prep your home for sale. What ever you do put into your lake home you'll likely get back by selling the home quickly and for your asking price. - 32399

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