Selling Tips
Staging Strategies for Homes
STAGING STRATEGIES FOR YOUR HOME
Staging your home is all about putting the best foot forward for potential buyers. By highlighting its most desirable features, you can draw more interest for your home and leave a lasting impression that is sure to help you sell it more quickly. Here’s what you should keep in mind as you prepare for your next open house or viewing!
- Help them visualize it as their own. Make it easier for buyers to imagine themselves making your house their home by removing personal memorabilia, knick-knacks, and photos. Instead replace them with simple décors, such as paintings, nature images, and plants.
- Think sleek instead of comfy. Modern-day buyers are leaning toward modern, crisp, clean interiors over comfy, homey looks. When staging your home, keep a minimalist mindset, and incorporate bright colors and metal accents.
- Deep clean the small spaces. It’s obvious to say you should clean your home before viewing, but don’t forget to cover your bases by deep cleaning the small spots. Take time to scrub porous areas like grout that may hold on to stains and baseboards where small pet hairs and dust love to cling.
- Spruce up your landscaping. The first impression your home gives to potential buyers is its exterior. Ensure you have a freshly mowed lawn, neat hedges and shrubbery, bright flowers, and a clean driveway.
- Set the mood. A home is so much more than just the way it looks, so you need to appeal to the other senses. Prior to having potential buyers over, set the mood by burning delicious smelling candles and selecting an upbeat, happy soundtrack to play in the background.
And the final step…talk to a professional to market and sell your masterpiece!
Gary and April Greer @ (951) 522-0518 OR april@teamgreer.com
Showing Homes with a Lock Box
WHY ARE THERE STILL COMBO LOCK BOXES ON OCCUPIED HOMES OR ANY HOME FOR THAT MATTER?? If you only realized how easily access to your home can be gained with this method…
Below is an illustration of the differences between the electronic key box and the combination lock box. When you are selling your home- the public is being invited inside. The best protection we can give that situation is to control and monitor the access by restricting it to persons that are LICENSED to provide that access. And that is why we ALWAYS provide an electronic key box for our clients.
| Electronic | Combo |
| Expensive | Cheap |
| Purchase or Lease from the Board of Realtors | Buy one anywhere |
| Can only be opened by a licensed agent or vendor that is a member of the Board of Realtors and is in “good standing” | Anyone can open |
| Logs Showings with date/time and Broker/Agent information | Not capable |
| Alerts Listing Agent when accessed | Not capable |
| Can be programmed to restrict showings by time | Can be opened whenever by whomever |
Our advice is to allow the lock box to determine who gets inside (NOT YOU) because the most unsafe thing you can do is open the door yourself. Insist that your agent provide an electronic lock box and then be gone for showings.
If you are considering a move we would love the opportunity to meet with you and go over our marketing and showing strategy for optimum results!
Call, text or email (951) 522-0518 or april@teamgreer.com
