Staging Do's and Don'ts........
Please do:
*Set your listing price by utilizing area comparables, not based upon what you need to buy that ostrich farm.
*Put personal collections away someplace safe.
*Invest in a fresh coat of paint ... and get 150% green $$ back on your investment.
*Disclose everything, especially the stuff you are tempted not to, it will only come back to haunt you.
*Fix all running toilets, or risk flushing profits down the drain.
*Remember that "outside" is the new "inside." Show off all of your living spaces, patios included!
*Visit model homes to see how neutrality and spaciousness are made to feel so inviting.
*Grind a lemon in the garbage disposal – it smells great and it's such great exercise....flip on..flip off!
*Display live plants....you can buy news ones if your thumb's not green.
*Keep your day job. Hire an agent and assist them in doing what they do best.
Please DON'T:
*Rationalize that a higher asking price means you will have more wiggle room. You could wind up sitting idle on the market and that will certainly make YOU wiggle!
*Respond to lowball offers with an explosion of insult, make a counter-offer because most buyers are expecting you to counter and in doing so, you may get to a number you both agree on.
*Refer to a leaky foundation as a central humidifier.
* Make your house smell like a cherry orchard or a department-store perfume counter.
*Air your dirty laundry. This includes leaving bills and private papers out, and, of course, the airing of your dirty laundry.
*"Clean up" by stuffing all of the closets.
*Leave unfinished "DIY" jobs for the buyers' honey-do list.
*Defer yard work. Your house only gets one chance to make a first impression. Overgrown shrubs and broken gutters are the real estate equivalent of dandruff.
*Think licks from Rex The Bulldog will help generate more offers.
