Seller Tip: Home staging maximizes sales price

Home staging can help you earn the maximum sales price for your house or condominium. Barb Schwarz’s new book ~ “Home Staging” ~ tells you how with words and pictures.

The author, a professional home decorating stager, shares her secrets for making a home listed for sale show its best. In other words, her goal is to make your ordinary home into a model home.

Most home buyers have zero imagination, until a home is staged and professionally presented. They won’t be able to spot the potential of a home offered for sale. Schwarz’ new book explains the tactics of presenting a home to look its best, even on a limited budget.

Schwarz emphasizes both the visual changes home staging makes, and its resulting dollar benefits in the form of quicker home sales and for more money. She backs up her statements with facts rather than just opinions.

“As the creator of home staging, I have never seen it not work. Sure, overpriced properties may sit, but it’s price that holds them back, not the staging. Two things sell a house: one is price, and the other is home staging,” Schwarz modestly explains.

Chapter topics include: “So You’re Selling Your Home”; “Ready, Stage, Sell: Home Staging Guidelines That Work”; “Staging Magic: How to Stage Each Room in Your House”; “Take the Staging Magic Outside”; “Getting It Done: It’s Commitment Time”; “Tagging on a Dime”; “Showing Your Staged House: Lights, Music, Action”; “What Do You Do When You Need Help?” “Staging Tales from the Trenches”; “How to Work with Your Real Estate Agent”; and “How Home Staging is Changing the Real Estate Industry.”

Resource: “Home Staging,” by Barb Schwarz (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, NJ), 2006, $19.95, 205 pages.

Source: Bob Bruss, Inman News