Woodlands Real Estate Tip: How Staging your home can make you big bucks faster!
OK... here's the deal. Our market right now is not what you'd call "on fire". Woodlands Texas real estate is not as bad as some parts of the country but we have some inventory sitting out there and Woodlands home builders are giving out major discounts and incentives to shift product.
But, you still want to sell your home in a reasonable time frame because you've been transferred to Houston and your new job starts there in about a month's time and there's no time to waste. So... what to do?
Consider staging. The Woodlands real estate market has not caught onto this strategy probably as much as it should. It works. It is especially good value for money if you're still living in the home you're trying to sell... you don't have to rent furniture &/or accessories from the stager! I know a really good stager that will charge around $350.00 for a day's worth of staging using the items already in your home. When you consider that staged homes sell within about 80% less time on the market (see www.stagedhomes.com) this alone can recoup the cost of staging many times over. Larger homes (above 2500 square foot) will usually take two whole days to stage.
I recently listed a home in The Woodlands in Beckonvale (beautiful area right next to Carlton Woods). Prior to listing it we took a few extra days to stage the home and to take the best photos we could. Autumn Dunn (www.autumndunn.com) did the staging and it was phenomenal! We pre-marketed the home to just over 500 realtors. The day after we listed it we had an open house for realtors, however, we had two offers on day one and we closed the deal on the second day of listing at the full asking price. I'm not sure what clinched the deal but I know that we were extremely happy with the look of the home after it was staged. It was like night & day. The master bedroom below was just exquisite! The whole house looked like a dream.
Have you had experience selling a staged home? I'd be interested to know how it worked out & who you used.