Home Staging Tips
and Home Selling Advice
Home Staging Your Vacant
House - without Moving in Truckloads of Furniture
By Jeanette Joy Fisher
If you moved before selling
your home, you might be left with a vacant house
costing you double mortgage payments. Here are some
home staging tips to help you.
Home staging has proven to sell houses in less time
and for more money.
According to a report by the Christian Science
Monitor, March 2006, staged homes sell for 7.4 percent
more and twice as fast. Many home staging services
will furnish your vacant house with their furniture
and charge you a monthly fee, with prices ranging from
$1,000 to $10,000 per month.
These high fees may be worth the investment. However,
if you don't have the extra cash, there are simple was
to get the staged home advantage without spending a
lot of money.
New marketing and interior design psychology ideas
help you stage homes for sale to motivate buyers and
generate top-dollar offers. Instead of leaving
investment houses vacant, add a few props to increase
your profits.
To gather interior design ideas, visit nearby model
homes and take a close look at the way the interior
designers dressed the homes to sell. Notice how the
designers under-furnished the model homes by using
just enough accessories to make a superb marketing
presentation, without over doing it to make the rooms
seem crowded or small.
Vacant House Staging Tips
You don't need to add as much
furniture to your vacant home to encourage buyers to
visualize their own furniture in the home. That's the
key to your selling strategy--to make your home FEEL
like the buyer's dream home.
Use a few props to dress up your vacant house. This
helps you sell quickly for more money in many ways:
1. Props chosen with your target buyer in mind help
reinforce the desired emotions.
2. Props add perspective with
visual depth -- vacant rooms look flat.
3. Props, especially fabric
cover round tables, soften the hollow, echo sound.
4. Props help to keep property
in the mind of buyers who view many houses in a row.
5. Props create focal points
for buyers to imagine their own furnishings in the
home and get them thinking about living in the space.
Learn how to take advantage of
interior design psychology home staging. Find out how
to profile your target buyer and use interior design
details proven to turn houses into buyers' dream
homes.
Copyright © 2006 Jeanette J. Fisher
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