Don’t Be Fooled By Home Staging
Based on a report that was just out, being fooled by home staging is actually very easy. A term that we are gradually becoming familiar with is home staging. It is the idea that we try to create the best impression of our home when selling the house. There is a whole set of rules to follow nowadays unlike before when it used to be just the run the vacuum over it and do the dishes.
A staged home will stand out from all the others and because of this fact, it will get sold more quickly. This can be carried to extremes with reports of sellers hiring storage units in order to cart their junk off to. In order for the house to look bigger and more spacious, larger items of furniture are encouraged to be put into storage by professional 'home stagers.'
If you want the prospective buyer to visualize the house as their own, then another instruction is to remove anything personal like photographs. All the bathroom paraphernalia should be removed from the counter top and closets must be de-cluttered so that they look more spacious. You should also remove garbage bins and hide them from sight.
Home staging can also be deliberately used and this has been suggested in order to hide a multitude of sins.
As much as 82% of buyers are sidetracked from the important issues by a well-staged house and this was suggested by the National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents or NAEBA who solely represents buyers in the realty business. This organization also concedes that home staging nets more cash and faster sales - so it works!
Using smaller furniture to make a room look larger, using curtains to hide rotting sills, as well as placing rugs over damaged parts are some examples of the underhand tricks that are used in staging. Another thing that's specified is the practice of putting a cheap paint job so that the defects will be covered. Your Realtor is legally obligated to let you know of any defects, but only if he actually knows about them!
Urged by the NAEBA to be cautious are the buyers and they should remember that when the house is sold, the stage is taken away. The tricks of home staging do not improve the floor plan, or the square footage of the home or the quality of the neighborhood, and these are the qualities that you will be re-selling at a later date.
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