Has Your Home Been On The Market For A While?

Staging your home could be the answer you need, if your home is still sitting on the market for sale. 

What is staging? It’s when a professional CSA (Certified Staging Agent) comes in to give you advice on how to enhance your home to show it at it’s best to get the home sold quicker! Also, known as ‘property presentation’ or ‘property styling.’

When it seems like it’s taking forever to sell your home and all else fails, staging can be very beneficial to you. Instead of dropping the price continually, staging may be the answer you've been looking for. 

A “Stager” or “Stagent” (a Real Estate Agent who is, also, a Stager) takes real notice of what the buyer’s are really seeing when they approach the home inside and out.  If you’re on a tight budget they can make suggestions with what you have, and keep costs down to a minimum on how to enhance the home.  The simplest of furniture movement can make a huge difference, or a change of a curtain rod, pulling up a rug, or a coat of paint, etc.

According to Wikipedia: 

"Home staging is the act of preparing a private residence for sale in the real estate marketplace. The goal of staging is to make a home appealing to the highest number of potential buyers, thereby selling a property more swiftly and for more money. Staging techniques focus on improving a property's appeal by transforming it into a welcoming, attractive product that anyone might want."

Having a Stager come in can be very eye opening and brutal at the same time.  But, if you need an extra keen “eye” for an opinion to help reach your goal of getting your house sold, then it’ll be worth it in the end.  

Remember, when a Stager comes to view the home, they are seeing it first hand and getting the first impression just as a new buyer would. You live there, so you’re so used to seeing what you see everyday and possibly don’t notice the small details a new person entering, would.

In this economy, you need every bit of help you can get. As a CSA, Certified Staging Agent myself, trust me, it helps and has been very successful.  I’m not saying to use me, I'm just saying it works! There are plenty of other professional stagers out there, but if it can help you move on with your life.  Go for it!  

Several links for LI, NY Home stagers can be found on www.Google.com  Best of Luck!