Over the past decade, the concept of home staging has caught fire. Whether it blossomed due to the market conditions or the home’s location, one fact is evident – staging gets results! REALTOR® Linda Kemp in Naperville, IL says that a good Realtor/Stager can save a homeowner the stress of making their home appealing for a quick sale without trying to duplicate the often unreal demands of reality TV home design programs.
Over the past decade, the concept of home staging has caught fire. Whether it blossomed due to the market conditions or the home’s location, one fact is evident – staging gets results!
REALTOR® Linda Kemp in Naperville, IL says that a good Realtor/Stager can save a homeowner the stress of making their home appealing for a quick sale without trying to duplicate the often unreal demands of reality TV home design programs.
“In my career as a Realtor/Stager, I find that homeowners are extremely stressed with the prospect of selling their house and have called in professionals to help them get their homes sold as quickly as possible. The last thing that they want to do is spend their time doing arts and craft projects. Certainly I have engaged their help in moving furniture, painting walls, and packing away unused items, however, these are tasks that well fall into their area of responsibility.
Typically when I go into a client’s home my goal is to use as much of their stuff as possible to keep costs down. My only exception to that rule is staging a vacant home or staging a luxury home where there is money budgeted for making a high impact on consumers in their price range. It has been my experience that most home sellers today selling in this market and doing so because of some type of necessity in their lives.
They are usually grappling with the fact that their home is worth much less that it was last year, the previous year and the year before that!!! Their budgets are limited and the cost of hiring a skilled carpenter to create an original table or headboard is not in their best interests.
So while these shows provide a wealth of good ideas and suggestions, the reality lies in improving your home’s appearance and making it appeal to as many buyers as possible.”
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