Do you stage your flips?

[Peter Ryabikin]

Curious to what everyone else is doing? We stage all of our houses. We did close to 30 flips last year and plan on 50 this year. We stage houses as low as 230k to over a million. I know a lot of people don't do it but I feel like the property shows better and feels more like "home"? We are spending 1300-1500 per house and that adds up over the year. Staging just 1/2 the Houses this year could save me over 30k but will I really save me money??? Btw the 230k house in Portland that was staged, I walked into the house to evaluate the repair addendum and found a naked guy sleeping in the bed. True story.

[Patti Robertson]

Wow on the naked guy. Our staged beds are empty boxes with air mattresses on top, so he would have been in for a surprise when he tried to jump on in!  We stage all ours too.  Most flippers in our market to.  We've moved away from putting in fridges though, and that has saved some money.