What you need to know to increase your house value with inexpensive staging tips?

It is true. A low price will get past most buyer objections.
Here’s some tips so you DON’T HAVE TO LOWER your price.

Here are a few easy and inexpensive staging tips that will make your home attractive to new home buyers and hopefully lead to a quick sale. Remember, when it comes to selling your home, appearance is everything.

If you have decided to sell your home and would like to do so quickly, you will have to come up with ways that will set your home apart from the others currently on the market. One of the easiest ways to do this is to stage the home to highlight its benefits and down play any undesirable features in order to attract prospective buyers. Your home should look as clean and attractive as a model home that buyer can see themselves living in for many years to come.

Here are a few easy and inexpensive staging tips that will make your home attractive to new home buyers and hopefully lead to a quick sale.

Get Rid of Clutter

After years of living in the same home, clutter collects in such a way that may not be evident to the homeowner. However, it does affect the way buyers see the home, even if you do not realize it. Clutter collects on shelves and countertops, and in drawers, closets, garages and attics. The first thing you need to do to prepare your home to sell is to get rid of all the clutter and junk that you may have laying around including in your garage. Rooms with fewer pieces of furniture make the room appear larger than it is. Professional stages often take as much as half of the furniture out in an effort to open up the room and make it appear bigger. You may consider renting a storage unit while your home is on the market to store items that aren’t currently needed or to store extra furnishings.

Make a Small Room Appear Larger

One trick that stagers use for small rooms is to paint it the same color as an adjoining room. A small kitchen and adjacent dining room will look bigger if they are the same light shade. Using the same color drapery as the walls is another trick to make a small room appear larger.

Neutral Colors

If your home has been painted recently, consider yourself ahead of the game. If not, take a paintbrush to the rooms that need it most. Sellers who paint the interior of their home will see a large return on the investment. While we all have our own personal taste, when you’re selling a home it’s best to cover up bright and bold colored walls with a fresh coat of neutral colored paint in off white, beige and tan. Very light blues and soft greens work well too.

Remove Personal Items

Packing away personal items is one of the simplest – and cheapest. You should de-personalize your house by removing personal items like family heirlooms and photos. The reason you want to ‘de-personalize’ your home is because you want buyers to view it as their potential home. You want perspective buyers to think of your home as their home, and it’s difficult for them to imagine themselves living in your home if it’s full of your memories.

Clean, Clean, Clean

When buyers see an unkempt home or smell something when they first walk in, they become turned off immediately. They can rarely see past it to look at all of the great features in the home. Remember, anyone serious about buying your home will look under kitchen and bathroom cabinets for leaks, so everything from top to bottom should be sparkling clean. A dirty, smelly home will turn a buyer off immediately. Have your rugs professionally cleaned and get regular cleaning service keeping your home spic-and-span throughout the time it is on the market.

Don’t Forget About Curb Appeal

Curb appeal is just as important as cleaning the inside of the home — it’s the buyer’s first impression of your home. The first impression your home will make will be when the perspective buyer and their Realtor pull into the driveway. Make sure that all children’s toys and bikes are neatly put away. Make sure garbage cans are put behind your gate and be sure to cut the lawn. Here in Phoenix many of the homes don’t have grass but decorative rock instead. If your home has rock, make sure there are no empty patches. Have a landscaper sculpt trees and bushes and trim any cactus, to make sure that your home makes an impressive first impression.

By following these inexpensive staging ideas, you will be making you home look more like a new model home and These points are especially important to selling your home in Phoenix, especially if the sale in contingent upon you buying another property.

Swee Ng, Realtor and Phoenix East Valley resident specializing in win-win real estate transaction through great communication and fighting for his clients’ best interest. After all, this is more than real estates, this is about your life and your dreams.

If you are looking to buy or sell your home in Phoenix AZ area, we hope you will consider us. Contact us today for complimentary consultation.

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