How to Get Your House Ready for Sale

The first Home Staging Tip is to consider the time line. Staging your house for sale to potential buyers takes some planning.

How much time do you have until the house will be put on the real estate market?

As you read through the rest of this post consider what types of tasks are you good at?  What type of tasks are you alright with doing?

What types of task do you dislike or are not good at?  Maybe that task can be given to a family member or hire someone.

Home Staging Tips on Decluttering

Clutter is the extra items…..you don’t need for Staging your home.

Control the clutter one room at a time. Start in the basement or the least used room. In that room start in the closet. Start with one shelf in the closet. You get the idea.

Get three boxes and label them:  Toss, Donate and Sell. Fill the boxes.

Then repeat using more boxes (or bags)…Toss in the garbage, Donate, Sell.

When the closet is done move on to finish the rest of the room. You just need to start!…You can do it!

Home Staging Tips- Clean, Repair and Paint

Who wants to buy a dirty vehicle? The same is true when buying a house. If you are not good at cleaning or just not into it consider hiring professional cleaners to save time.

Maybe you haven’t got a lot of time. The cleaners will take care of those corners and grooves that get clogged with dirt. For a few hundred dollars it will be dollars well spent.

Make your house look and feel new again. Fix any holes in the walls, the cracked floor tiles, damaged cupboard doors, bath surround tiles. Replace worn carpet.

Home Staging Tips – Consider a Home Staging professional

Home Stagers are committed to helping you prepare your house for sale. You may be very handy and want to do most, or all of the work yourself. Maybe all you need is a professional with a “fresh eye” to help you decide on your specific priorities.

Home Styles Decor of N. Vancouver offers In-Home Consultation to help you decide on priorities.

home staging tipsHome Staging Tips- Depersonalize

Put away personal items so that the potential buyer can picture themselves making your house their home. Start by making the space as neutral as possible.

You achieve this by packing away as many personal items as possible. This includes family photos, collectibles and extra books.

Home staging Tips –  Return on Staging Investment ROSI

When potential buyers go house hunting you want them to remember your house as the one that was in “move in condition”.

The most important Home Staging Tip is  that the money invested in your home during the staging process will help from the sale of your home.

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