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Vacant Home Staging & Selling Factors

* Appropriate Market Price
* Marketing Plan in place before listing and showing
* Renovations complete before marketing and showing
* Staging complete before marketing and showing
* Location and neighborhood
* Seller Motivation
* Realtor Skills
* Buyer Financing
* Current Market Conditions

Vacant homes are a challenge that demand sellers to rise to, for faster profitable sale.

* Vacants take the longest to sell with the original asking price depreciating considerably.
* They are often taken off the market.
* The longer on the market, the less appealing your property becomes.
* Potential buyers are not likely to give you another chance and return once they have already viewed a property that they cannot see themselves in.
* Don’t be misled - people remember. They are very likely to have written off any possibility and potential.

Vacant Home Staging STAGE TO SELL
What You Need To Know

* Less than 10% of people can visualize spatially. They cannot see the end from the beginning. They will breeze through an vacant house so fast, because there is nothing stopping them! They need a reason to stop and say, "Oh, I like this reading corner", or "How nice, the living room is big enough for 2 seating areas!"
* 63% of Buyers want a home that is ready to move into.
* An empty house offers little to ‘stop' for and potential buyers breeze right through and out the door.
* Property presentation by a professional stager statistically sells homes in half the time.
* Staging property reduces objections, prompting higher offers, selling for 6.9% more on average.

Don't even give the property the chance of sitting empty for a long period. Don't wait to stage when the bulk of your potential buyers have already gone through, because they likely will not be back, reducing your chances of getting a buyer quickly.

STAGE TO SELL - The Cost of Vacant Home Staging

Some sellers become blind-sided by the up-front cost. Staging a vacant is certainly more than staging a furnished house.
* The job is very similar to moving in, and then moving out again. We can all relate to that. It is a big job!
* The furniture must be rented, moved and set up. Then removed after the sale. The cost is justified. There is a lot of expense and wear and tear in the process of moving furniture around. Movers must be paid for the physical labor. Transportation costs must be covered.
* Your Stager is Property Presentation professional, skilled at arrangement for resale. Her work has the potential to get you returns many times the cost of staging.

HOME STAGING SERVICES - Cost varies depending on location, size of the house and various factors that can be determined on initial evaluation and consultation.

* Let’s 'guess-timate' Toronto Canada. Stager fee could be up to and beyond $3000. One month rental, upwards of $1000.

* Here in Kelowna the average professional stagers fee is $1200 including consultation – could be more or less.
Rentals would start around $800

STAGE TO SELL - Now Consider the Returns Of Vacant Home Staging

* Take a $500,000 home. Average increase of a staged property return is 6.9%.
* $34,500 is 6.9% of $500,000
* By any standard, that is a huge return on how much did the that professional stager cost? $1800? $2000? $5000? - A deal at any cost - wouldn't you say?

STAGE RIGHT - STAGE FROM THE START - Sell in half the time. Sell for more

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