SELLING YOUR HOME & THE VIRTUAL TOUR

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

PREPARING YOUR HOME FOR THE VIRTUAL TOUR COMPANY





You finally realized that hiring a professional Virtual Tour company to photograph your property was a great move. Next step is to prepare your home so that it looks appealing to potential buyers who will be looking at your home online? Think about “staging” your home, or in other words, setting the scene for immediate buyer interest in your property.

To be really effective, you need to look at both the outside and the inside of your home. Here are 3 tips to get you started with the inside of your home:
1. De-clutter. This is one of the most important things you can do. It might be easier to think of de-cluttering like this – you’re moving anyway, so why not start packing now?
Pack up everything you don’t need and store the boxes out of sight in the garage (or consider temporarily renting a small storage locker).
2. Organize your closets – put similar colors together, pants together, skirts together, shirts together etc. Why? Because it will make the closets look bigger. (Really.) An organized closet appears bigger, and you want your closets to look as spacious as possible.
3. Make your home look like a model. You want to de-personalize as much as possible so potential buyers can imagine themselves and their own belongings occupying the space in your house. That means minimizing – putting away everything you don’t need or use. Clear off kitchen counters as much as possible – stash all those appliances you don’t use, and put miscellaneous small clutter in a few attractive baskets or boxes
And the biggest tip of all? Imagine yourself as a potential buyer looking at your property for the very first time. What impressions are you getting? Would YOU buy your house? What would you like to see changed before you submitted an offer on your house?
Proper staging helps you sell your house in a shorter time and at the price you want.

Interested in selling YOUR home? Consult with Selling Homes by Design for a no-obligation meeting to discuss your home and our professional realty and Staging services!



(preparation information provided by The Murphy Group of Keller Williams

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