Testing My Real Estate Theory - Setting the Stage

Selling a Boston North West home can be a drastic change for families.  As we move furniture out and all around, children can start feeling anxious and uneasy about what is going on.  This is what I try and warn my clients of.  If you have school age children, often teachers will notice that they are acting differently.  I have also found this to be true with Ella and Logan.  Granted, they are only two, but their toy room was changed and we staged our Boston home so that Ella and Logan were sharing a room, when the reality of it is they haven't done that since they were a month old.  Our kids had a hard time sleeping in their "newly" laid out room.  This is why I also suggest that families leave for the first weekend their .  Take time to bond with your kids.  Especially since, for the the last several weeks or months, you have been preoccupied with getting your home ready to sell.  This also takes the stress out of trying to keep the house perfectly tidy.

We decided that we needed to relieve our stress with some family bonding and home staging.  That may sound funny, but by spending time together outside of the house and having a home stager take care of making sure our home is neat, tidy and ready for showing, the stress levels of my husband and I as well as our kids was relieved.  We took some furniture out and had a stager come in to tie the whole house together.  It is completely worth every penny.  Staging is important and essential to selling a house.  I have been in many homes that don't need to be staged.  But for the most part, every home could benefit from being looked at through a stager's eye.  Look at the pictures in this post and you can see how the home just comes alive! 

Once our house was perfectly staged, we had a photographer come through.  The importance of good pictures is essential to the successful sale of your Boston North West property.  They are displayed all over the internet, property website and, most importantly, the MLS, where other REALTORS® are looking for the perfect home for their clients...the buyers.  Some rooms benefit from a wide angle lens and some over exposing in order for your home to look spacious, bright and even more appealing to a buyer's eye.

And at that point, my family was out for the weekend, not to return until the open house was over and all showings had ended.  It only took us a matter of 15 minutes to make it feel lived in all over again.

Heather Plate, your source for Boston North West real estate

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Testing My Real Estate Theory - Moving Things Out