Staging Your Home for a Warmer Enviroment

From time to time we like to pass on information that we gather from other sources looking at how to properly stage one's home. In other words...getting rid of all the stuff we really use on a daily basis and making it more like what we would like to see! And by that, what others would rather see. We all know that this is not functional and living in Panama City Beach Florida...we know we would rather be at the beach! But if you are trying to sell your home here in Panama City Florida or anywhere for that matter, certain things can be done fairly inexpensively. We hope the following is helpful and beneficial for selling your home.

8 Tips for Low Cost Staging

In a tough sales market, staging can help move a property.

Barb Schwarz, who claims to have invented home staging in the early 1970s, estimates that about one in four homes nationwide are now staged. Julie Dana and Marcia Layton Turn state in their book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Staging Your Home to Sell, that a seller stands to gain as much as $9,000 on a $200,000 house if it's staged.Shelly Wagner, a Detroit-based stager, estimates that the cost per room for staging is $100 – small potatoes if it really helps a home sell.Here are some ideas from Wagner for effective, low-cost staging:
-Remove scatter rugs and knickknacks from every room.
-Get rid of everything on the kitchen counters, including appliances, except for the coffee maker.
-Remove as much as you can from closets.
-Hire a cleaning service if necessary to make the house spotless. Scrub floors, walls, and windows. Pay special attention to the microwave, oven, and refrigerator.
-Focus on the feature rooms, the living, dining, and master bedrooms. Additional bedrooms are best left empty or minimally furnished.
-Arrange the furniture to show off each room’s best features.
-Set the dining-room table with napkins, plates, and flatware.
-When showing the house, turn on soft instrumental “buying” music, preferably classical or jazz.

Source: Detroit News, Marge Colborn (05/03/08)

For more information on the Panama City Florida Real Estate market, or Panama City Beach Florida Real Estate market for that matter please visit www.InvestSmarter.com to see what is happening.

For available homes and condominiums please also visit

www.Panama-City-Beach-Florida-MLS.com
and
www.Panama-City-Beach-Florida-Condominiums.com

We hope you have a wonderful day and find all of the wonderful things about our area as warm and welcoming as we do. Once you visit Panama City Florida you know why everyone continues to come back year after year and why many people make Panama City Beach Florida their home!