Kansas City Home Staging
Kansas City home staging is the act of preparing a house or condominium for sale. The goal of your home staging is to make a home appealing to the greatest number of potential buyers, enabling it to sell more quickly and for more money.
Urbana entrepreneur Kim Hotchkiss, whose clients include builders, homeowners, and Realtors, said, “Staging a home for a realtor means selling a house faster means happy customers, more referrals, repeat business, and of course more commissions.”
Hotchkiss is an accredited staging professional and member of the International Association of Home Staging Professionals. “I have enough inventory for about eight houses,” Hotchkiss said. “There’s a rule in home staging that the furniture and decor are non-specific. You want to broaden the spectrum and appeal to as many different buyers as you can.”
If you are preparing to sell your house, besides finding a realtor, the primary task is preparing the house for sale. Experts agree that home staging gets a house sold faster, and the seller receives a higher price.
Kansas City Home Staging
Carolyn Muse Grant, says there are two primary uses for home staging:
- Before any home is put on the market, home staging is essential. While most of us love our homes and all of our things we have acquired over the years, chances are we have too much stuff, and, let’s face it, it’s our home, and we live in it the way we want to. Well, people looking to buy that house may not want to live in it as you do, and they need the house to look like it would be one they could live in comfortably.
- An empty house may be a problem for an agent and seller. When potential homebuyers see a vacant house, they are sometimes at a loss as to what they would do with it. What kind of furniture? What would I do with this room? Would this work? A million questions. So she works with the agent to give potential buyers an idea of what the house would look like. She has furniture and accessories available to use for that purpose.
Home staging is not cheap
Home interior designers and other design professionals typically offer home staging services. “An initial two-hour consultation with a home stager runs from $150-$600, and having a home staged professionally often ends up costing up to $6,000 depending on the residence’s size,” Nieves Caballero, content manager at FixR says. A 2,000 square foot home may cost $2,400 per month, so it is to your advantage to sell quickly.
Nine recommendations for Kansas City Home Staging
If you want to save money, do these eight things to stage your home:
- Emphasize Curb Appeal. The lawn should be mowed and edged, dead stuff taken to the dump or raked, plants trimmed. Siding and windows washed.
- Freshly paint the front door. This is the welcome mat to your home. Make sure the doorbell and porch light work.
- Remove your stuff. You want potential home buyers to think it’s “their” house from the time they walk in the door. Help them imagine their belongings, pictures, art, books in their new home.”
- Make sure the house is clean. Nothing will turn off the buyer more than filth. If they feel unclean walking through your house, you’ve failed to make a sale.
- Paint! Remove the pictures from the walls, spackle the nail holes, and paint. Stick to neutral colors.
- Decorate tables with flowers. If you have room for al fresco dining, set the table with napkins. Let them picture themselves dining outside, enjoying the conversation over candlelight.
- Make the rooms look bigger. Removing furniture makes the rooms look bigger.
- Use furniture to emphasize the purpose of the room
- Have professional photos taken
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