You are ready and need to sell your home. You have found a realtor who has assessed a selling price and they are ready to put your home on the market. Their job is to market your home so it will sell for the highest price in the quickest amount of time. At this point your home becomes a product. That product has to compete with a huge inventory of homes, especially because of today’s market. So your home needs to be priced right and look the best among the competition. This is where “home staging” comes into play. So your realtor will enlist the help of a “home stager” that has been accredited by “Accredited Staging Professional (ASP).” The ASP has gone through a rigorous training at the ASP University that was started by Barb Schwarz. Barb Schwarz is the founder & CEO of Stagedhomes.com. She is known worldwide as a leader in the Home Staging business teaching courses at her ASP University where realtors and individuals become accredited to do Home Staging.
Before Home Staging
“The definition of home staging is professionally preparing homes for sale, so that they appeal to the most amount of buyers and generate the highest price in the least amount of time on the market.”
After Home Staging – Photos Courtesy Stagedhomes.com
Home Staging doesn’t mean your home is re-decorated or redesigned. It is de-cluttering, taking all personal goods from sight, and preparing the home to look like a model home. By having a professional cleaned home, removing personal pictures, valuable items, books, reducing the number of paintings in every room and removing houseplants are just a few of what an accredited ASP will recommend to make your home like a model home. An ASP home stager will go room to room suggesting what needs to be done. You need to decide what you can live without and move it out early. You will be moving anyway so moving and packing the goods you can live without while your house is being sold will help your home sell. It is some work so enlist the help of your local moving & storage company Columbine Moving & Storage to help move, pack, and store your goods. The local ASP Home Stager in the Aspen and Vail, Colorado area is White Orchid Interiors.