preparing house for sale

[Roshni]

Re: preparing house for sale

@khattichic

Umm…speaking as a Realtor, properly staging your house can definitely get you more money but 100,000 more in sales price? I’ve never seen or heard of that in my 10+ years of working in this industry. Do you mind me asking me what state/market you live in? Are these houses direct comps, meaning are they +/- 200 sqft, built around the same time and within 1/4 mile of your house?

Hiring a stager will definitely help out, but even more so are well taken photos for the MLS listing. Hiring a real estate photographer that specializes in taking photos of houses for the MLS only costs about $150. You don’t have to take pics of the empty rooms, your listing details will already show the the room dimensions etc. A potential buyer will already see the square footage and know how many bedrooms there are.

Ideas for presenting those rooms could be a home gym, craft room, prayer room, play room. There are inexpensive ways to stage. Ask friends or family if they have any extra furniture they need stored temporarily and use that to set your empty rooms.

I would concentrate more on what you do have, over what you don’t. A buyer forms there opinion about your house within the first 15 seconds they walk in. That’s why curb appeal is important, and your entry foyer. These set the first impression.

(Also, get a second opinion/alternative price quotes on staging companies. The ones I work with oh charge $75-$100 an hour and really good about working with the things you already have. Even if they have to being in big pieces and it costs you a couple of thousand, you can ask to pay them at the time of closing so you don’t have to come with the expense up front)

Hi Khattichic

We will be putting our house on sale in 2 weeks time. There is no sales data to compare our house with. Our area consists of small average houses and than new development has big houses. Our house is in new development. there are now 2 houses on sale in our area but both are close to $100 000 more than what we are putting our house on sale for. We dont want to under sell it and at the same time do not want to be in a position where we can not sell. We want to achieve quick sale as we will be booking new land to build. but I am worried keep think that What if we can not sell at our asking price.

can you advice on how to hold my nerves in this process. is there any way how can we know exact value of our house. actually we bought our land for 190 000 and spend about 300 000 on the house. now land on sale in our area is about 320 000 for same size block and builders charge close to 450 000 for the size of our house excluding landscaping and fencing.

we have fences, landscaped, light fitting as well.

thanks