Does anyone have any idea what company's (perhaps nationwide) offer the best rates for packages for home staging (for sale)
On an aside, is staging really all that important when selling, I'm really debating it for the Spring... When we were searching we preferred empty homes, but should we consider staging?
I see a lot of great advice here but I loved my friend's idea, which actually got her into a buyer's war during a down market time TWICE;
She emptied all the rooms, repainted and repaired and replaced woodwork if needed.
If needed, she called in pest control, so no uninvited critters would show their faces.
She took special care with scent, being certain that no pest control chemicals, or moth balls were able to be smelled.
In the "wet areas" she was certain to scrub and remove any sign of build up and mold.
Washed all windows, sprayed bathroom down with lysol for the clean scent then kitchen down with a coffee scent.
She replaced all the light bulbs, and put new shades where needed. She pulled down draperies but left the hardware and replaced the cheaper hardware to hold curtains with more substantial wooden rods.
She also replaced all the hardware on her cabinetry throughout the house.
Any damaged doorknobs where replaced with matching upscale doorknobs.
In all of the completely empty rooms she put a small picture album, labeled our ideas and uses of this room. each photo album contained pictures of activities and family fun in that room and some well furnished clean room shots from each angle. she was sure to show furniture placement possibilities in the living room, with pictures of the television and christmas tree placements they had tried through the years.
she on both occassions got more than 20 percent more than she had listed for and didn't want to sell either because they looked so great afterwards.
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