Preparing Your House for Prospective Buyers in Albemarle, North Carolina

Careful home staging is a proven technique applied to sell a home here in Albemarle, North Carolina. Some positive aspects of home staging include less time on the market and higher bids. If you want to sell your house quickly, go for a well-planned approach to home staging.

Look at staging your home as creating a "style" for your house the same way a PR firm would do for a popular celebrity. Just like creating an image draws the spotlight to a public figure, staging makes your real estate look better when it's on the market.

Staging your home to sell doesn't have to be an annoying experience. It can actually be enjoyable. Together, we'll strive for a high bid for your property. Use these home staging tricks to get you started:

Curb Appeal Checklist

Curb appeal is your first chance to create a great first impression on buyers before they walk into your house. The pluses and minuses that jump out at buyers shape their first thoughts about your house and how you upkeep home's regular maintenance.Understanding this helps us to decide what plan of action we can use to entice buyers from the street and into your house. If your house isn't at its best on the outside with touched up paint and colorful garden plants it's time to get those things done. Follow the Curb Appeal Checklist and add dollars to your house's final selling price.

Welcome Home Checklist

Could a buyer picture themselves lounging in your living room, unwinding in your reading nook or inviting family and friends over for a dinner in your dining room? I want your home to welcome buyers and offer them a sense of easy living. I'll help you accomplish this by suggesting changes that enhance the features of your house. I'll help you put in storage things that give the impression of clutter. Tabletops should be free and clear. Kitschy sculptures, sentimental items, family photos, and refrigerator artwork should get stored away too. You need to remove the personal details from the home so buyers can perceive it as their new home.

Every room gets a once-over. Improvements that directly affect your bottom line 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 polishing, and windows that need cleaning.

I'll make sure your house has mass appeal and that it's welcoming, avoiding "offensive" or "personalized" colors on the walls and furniture. And if none of your belongings are there, you can try renting furnishings. The goal is for your house to look inviting as opposed to bare.

Setting the Stage

You'll know when for the Open House, because everything comes together to set the stage for what buyers will expect when they consider buying your house. Dark rooms can really dampen a buyer's spirits, so we'll do things like part the curtains and change light bulbs where needed to show off your property. Together we'll enhance the mood of the house with enjoyable music playing lightly and make sure a nice scent flows room-to-room. We'll include cozy-looking throws, and throw pillows on your chairs and bedding. We want buyers to feel like your current house is their future home.