Quality Home Improvement

Does staging really matter? Does a vacant home sell faster and for more money than a furnished home? Should you do repairs and neutralize a home or sell “as is”? These are questions sellers are asking Realtors like myself everyday. Everyone has a different opinion. Since there is no unified consensus, let’s talk about a few things we can all agree will help sell your home faster.

Let’s assume you decide to spend a few dollars doing some updating. When you are working on your own home , you have a lot of things that you must consider. You know you have to choose paint colors, and you may even know that some of your home’s furniture is outdated which might necessitate a work around. If you go with too specific interior design, you may turn someone off or make it too specific that it just won’t sell. You can have wonderful interior design and great looking rooms, but if you make them personal to your existing taste you will end up having trouble selling it. Recently, I was showing a home where a single man lived. He customized the home with lots of sports memorabilia and dark strong paint tones. While it was very nice, it was too specific to what a man might prefer, thereby limiting or hurting his chances with women home buyers who have no interest in sports.

Some customization is OK. You don’t want to “beige” everything so it doesn’t have any personality either. Ideally, What you want to avoid is for your home d