Home Stager - How to Effectively Stage a Home and Make a Sale

Home staging is an industry that is on the verge of exploding because of the slowing real estate industry. And this is where a professional stager comes in.

How to Do Home Staging Effectively

“In a buyers market, sellers have to utilize every powerful tool they can to sell their home as fast as possible and for the best price,” says Karen Schaefer, national real estate sales expert. “Unfortunately, sellers are subject to antiquated direction that immediately tips off the potential buyers that they are being “sold” which often stops the sale on the spot.”

You may have noticed that selling a home nowadays doesn't seem to be easy since there are a lot of competitions in the real estate market. But it is not impossible to sell a property if you are equipped with the right tools and if you have learned the proper methods on how to make a sale fast and easy. So how would you be able to do that and stand out from the crowd?

How to Make a Sale

Having a clean house is extremely important if you want to make a sale but is it everything? The answer is no. There is much more involved in getting your home ready for a successful sale than simply cleaning it. That’s where home staging comes in. In order to make your home stand out from the rest and look appealing to potential buyers, you will need to create what we call as Pockets of Emotion. These are the little moments when the potential buyers are hit with a strong emotion as they walk through and inspect the house. Instead of checking and evaluating the closet space and the layout, they feel the house and become emotionally connected. And properly trained home stagers can do this job for you.

What Home Stagers Do

Home stagers take time to properly stage a property for sale. Home stagers will take your house from nice to sensational by using simple staging techniques that appeal to a buyer on an emotional level. Remember that appealing to a buyer on an emotional level, so that they can picture themselves in your home living their life – is what will sell your home. The basic rule of thumb is to ask yourself two questions: can I make more money if I do this? And can it help to sell my property faster? And the answers to these two questions are within the reach of an expert home stager.

About The Author

Karen Schaefer is the Founder of Simple Appeal, Inc. and APSD - The Association of Property Scene Designers which is composed of professional Home Stagers who have accumulated and gained the best Home Staging Training there is. Karen will teach you more about staging, marketing, and selling houses quickly. You can click on the links for more on home staging careers.