Month: April 2019

Ever wonder why some homes for sale sell quickly and others stay on the market for quite some time? For home owners who are eager to sell, a long transition period can be very frustrating, time consuming and costly. Luckily, home staging is a real estate process that anyone can try. It can speed up the sale of your home just by making simple adjustments. Home staging helps to make your home’s beautiful features stand out and entice buyers.

Here are some tips for home staging your house.

1. When it comes to real estate, keep things clean. Cleanliness is the first thing a potential home buyer will notice, so take extra time in cleaning every room before an open house or showing. You want every room to look spotless – even the areas where you wouldn’t normally explore. Washing, dusting, steaming and cleaning are all important tasks when making sure your house is immaculately clean.

2. Clear out the clutter. Try to de-clutter your home as much as possible by sorting through what you need for your new house, and what you can give away. Minimize clutter on shelves, countertops, and coffee table. If you can, hold a garage sale with the items you won’t need.

3. Let your home show its personality. Remove any family photos, personal awards, souvenirs, etc. When potential buyers walk into your home they want to envision their life- not someone else’s.

4. Draw them in from the outside. The outdoor appearance of a home is a vital factor when buying. It is the first thing buyers will see when they walk into the home. Be sure to paint and/or wash the house’s exterior walls and inspect the gutters, windows and chimney. Also make sure the lawn is trim and your plants and gardens are tended to.

Real estate can be a tricky industry for home sellers and home buyers. That’s why it’s important to explore the benefits that come from home staging. Imagine selling your home in a matter of hours or days just by applying some simple adjustments to the look of your home. Home staging is a great tool if you are finding it difficult selling your home. East2WestHomes.com offers a complete listing of homes for sale in Burlington, Mississauga and Oakville areas and includes valuable real estate information.

East2WestHomes.com offers a complete listing of homes in Mississauga, Burlington homes, and Oakville areas and includes valuable real estate information.

The pricing structure (and items you charge for) you set up for your home staging services can either make or break your business. Good for you to follow your heart and get into a career you enjoy, but if youre doing something you love and not making money, its not a business its a hobby.

Even if youre the best home stager in your city, if you charge a flat rate for your services, you could end up broke faster than you think. In fact, you could be setting yourself up to flat-line a business that could otherwise be extremely profitable.

Charging by the square foot or setting a flat rate per room is a common mistake that has ended more than one home stagers career. Why? No two spaces are ever the same. It could take more time for you to stage a 900-square-foot condo than a 3,000-square-foot detached home. Why should you charge the same rate for both?

When youre elbow deep in a project and realize it will take hours more to complete than you originally estimated its too late. By charging a flat rate instead of by the hour, you will have successfully undercut yourself!

There are several scenarios youre likely to find yourself in if you do any amount of home staging at all. In these classic time-sucking situations, your flat rate couldnt possibly compensate for the amount of time thats wasted:

Your home staging client has to tell you the entire background of each piece of furniture or art work in their home and why they love them all.

Your staging consultation is interrupted dozens of times by a client thats constantly taking phone calls or breaking up fights between screaming children.

You find yourself elbow-deep in a project only to learn that the client has changed their mind about using your services.

You end up in the midst of heaps of clutter that would rival an Oprah hoarder episode, spending hours to go through your clients beloved items.

If you have the proper hourly pricing strategy in place, none of these time-suckers will matter. In fact, if clients like these are eating up your time, youre making more money by charging hourly. However, if you charge by the square foot or by the room you will find yourself working for nothing much of the time. Im sure you didnt go into business for yourself to lose money.

If you dont charge by the hour for your home staging services, you really need to reconsider your pricing strategy before you burnout from all the extra work you must do to make ends meet or your business flat-lines.