When the seller of this prop­erty first called me, he was unsure about the ben­e­fits of stag­ing. But he knew that there were 5 houses for sale on his street and that most of them had been on the mar­ket for quite some time. He was con­cerned that a home stag­ing con­sul­ta­tion would basi­cally just tell him what he already knew — like that they needed to do some pack­ing and de-cluttering.

Dur­ing our con­sul­ta­tion he was happy to dis­cover that we cov­ered way more than that — right down to how to arrange the fur­ni­ture, how to style each room to appeal to their likely buyer and how to make selec­tions for high Return on Invest­ment updates in the home. After a month of doing their post-consult “home­work” we were approach­ing their tar­get list­ing date and they opted to rent a few pieces of fur­ni­ture, art and acces­sories to add a lit­tle magic. Con­tinue read­ing →

The Louisville hous­ing mar­ket has been brisk this spring but seri­ous sell­ers are still tak­ing the time to pre­pare their homes to get the high­est pos­si­ble price. Rocky Moun­tain Home Stag­ing had the oppor­tu­nity to help this home­owner pre­pare to sell. Here is what the seller had to say about the experience.

“Rocky Moun­tain Stag­ing did such a great job in prep­ping my house for sale, that I didn’t want to move.  Their ser­vice came in two key ele­ments.  First, there was the con­sul­ta­tion where the stager iden­ti­fied a lot of what I could do myself to get the house ready.  She even referred me to afford­able con­trac­tors.  I was able to make dra­matic, cost effec­tive changes before she did the final stag­ing.  The final stag­ing was a knock out and I am sure con­tributed to my get­ting an offer for over my ask­ing price within 10 hours of list­ing in MLS.  Con­tinue read­ing →

Rocky Moun­tain Home Stag­ing recently had the oppor­tu­nity to help Debra Hensen Real Estate show­case this lovely Dakota Ridge town­home. The place was in great con­di­tion and just needed a bit of “stag­ing magic” to really help it come alive.

This prop­erty received mul­ti­ple offers in a mat­ter of days and sold for more than ask­ing price. In fact, in April the aver­age sales price to list price ratio in Boul­der County was 99% mean­ing that the aver­age home sold for 99% of ask­ing price. This prop­erty sold for 102% mean­ing that the sell­ers made 3% more ($12,750 in this instance) and enjoyed a 1903% return on their small ($599) invest­ment in stag­ing. Plus they sold ten times faster. 4 days to offer ver­sus 41 days in April. Take a look at the pho­tos. Con­tinue read­ing →

I’m going to go on a lit­tle rant here so please for­give me in advance. I am beyond frus­trated by boiler plate tips on prepar­ing your home to sell. They talk about repairs, clean­ing, declut­ter­ing, orga­niz­ing — and many of them call it “stag­ing”. Seri­ously, I could hurl my lap­top right out the win­dow it makes me so mad.

There’s no doubt that clean­ing and declut­ter­ing are impor­tant when sell­ing a home but these activ­i­ties are not stag­ing. They are impor­tant “pre-staging” steps. Please allow me to illus­trate with pho­tos. Con­tinue read­ing →

Sell­ing a home can be over­whelm­ing and the prepa­ra­tion is often a LOT of work. If you are inter­ested in mak­ing as much money as you can on the sale with­out invest­ing tons of time or tons of money. Con­sider our home stag­ing con­sul­ta­tion. You get pri­or­i­tized action steps that are spe­cific to YOUR home, YOUR bud­get, YOUR goals, YOUR price point and YOUR com­pe­ti­tion. Here is what you can expect:

Prior to get­ting to your home we research your com­pe­ti­tion because we want to see exactly what buy­ers are see­ing at that moment. What you need to do to pre­pare your home to sell has EVERYTHING to do with what you are up against.

We spend 2 hours with you in your home. We talk about Con­tinue read­ing →

Lately, I’ve had a cou­ple of sell­ers tell me that their real estate agent rec­om­mended they just “try it out for a few months with­out stag­ing and see what hap­pens”. Now these were home sell­ers who were proac­tive enough to con­tact me on their own to find out about home stag­ing and wanted my rec­om­men­da­tions for their home. Most times, though, it is the seller who wants to “try it out” despite the rec­om­men­da­tions of the agent.

Here is what I know: Con­tinue read­ing →