6 easy ways to make your property more appealing to buyers

Faced with a massive glut of unsold homes, many would-be sellers are struggling to make their properties stand out in today’s downtrodden real estate market. But while the economic head winds are beyond property owners’ control, author Barb Schwarz says they can dramatically improve their chances of making a sale by devoting attention to an often-overlooked corner of real estate marketing: home staging.

Or they can hire IR2 - Excellent staging at IPOP’s!!!

The dirty secret of selling RE right now is you need ‘The Total Package”

- Staging
- Pricing
- Flexablity
- A little luck

Hiring the Deuce can’t hurt either.

She hit my big two:

Make it clean.

Declutter.

I always thought it was obvious, but wow do people miss it.

The decide from the doorway is good to.  Frankly, live in is too much stuff to “display” a room.

With me good is bad and bad is good.

I want to see a house with good bones and a whole
buncha wrinkles.  I want a slight moldy smell.  I want
worn carpet.  I want it to need painting.

I want to pay hardly anything and rip it all out,
and replace it to my taste, which is what I did with this
house, and what I will do with any future house, assuming
we want to/are able to ever sell this house.

This is hardly to someone like IR2’s advantage.

I would say than anyone south of a line drawn from Cocoa/Cocoa
Beach to Tampa is wasting their time and money spending anything
on a house until after you bought it, because virtually NOTHING is selling.

Maybe north of that too, but that’s what I know about.

I read somewhere that large apartment complexes in FL had 80% vacancy.  Is this true?

I’m sure that’s true of many of what I’ve called the “Towers” in other
posts.  Near downtown and in downtown, anywhere on Miami Beach,
near Dadeland in Southish Dade.

I don’t know if I posted here or on Calculated Risk, but the emptiness
thing is really starting to hit home on the lack of maintenance assessments.

I told a client who is current on a rental he owns, and only has to
subsidize it to the tune of $200 a month, which he can do and planned
to do for at least another 4 years, and who has a nice fixed mtg to walk.

Because.

So many foreclosures, only one water hook up, water bill 8 months late,
not property insurance either, we’re in hurricane season in hurricane
land.  These are 2 story low rises.  The people are not leaving until
the foreclosures are done, hence water continues to be used.

I thought it would hit the fan in high rise towers, but no.

Wait a minute, I did post somewhere here on the garbage building.
Hit search and find it.  I wonder it searching “garbage” will do it.
Literal garbage, not metaphorical garbage.

Anyway, bottom line is this is a disaster of biblical proportions.

The only condo I’d buy is an old one run by old people who have
paid their mtges off and have no intention of leaving, except feet first.

The cost of getting a house professionally staged is not worth it under any circumstance. If homes have a really challenging feature, like a tree growing through a room (South Laguna-I thought it was cool when I was 13, 35 years later there I was standing in my junior high school crush’s old house wondering about deja vu until it hit me how I knew that house) you might need to throw in some furniture to show people how the room could be used. Other than that, just leave the home empty. A seller’s money is much better spent on paint and gardening than on on staging. If a seller is living in the house, then by all means rent some storage space and shove all the junk in there. Just keep the bare minimum in the house.