hello and welcome to real estate agency the program that will bring you the most current information about real estate and home staging i'm karen was auto home staging realtor with charlie warns real estate professionals and today's topic is the benefits township gina macklin she's a resident of peter's house and home staging professional with five years experience in home staging since two thousand and six she's been trained by certified staging professionals and she was selected to stage presidential s for the g twenty summit and she's here today to discuss the benefits of home staging and how to show how to how changes can make a difference with some for foreign after picked so welcome to now i have really got to see it you too thanks for having me karen my pleasure there are so many benefits to home staging to the homeowner and to the buyer and i was just wondering if we could talk a little bit of how the result of home staging can be on the home seller oh well there's plenty first of all if you sell faster you sell for more money and it really is a lot of stress to having some of these things that need to have tension you know when you're selling a home and it's pretty much done already so  does it leave steps on the on the seller well for one you know you're going to have to pack up somewhere things anyhow and your home is going to be less cluttered so if you have a lot of cares and worries around extra clothes in your closets all those things are going to be addressed and those things are going to be taken out of the picture early enough so your home is going to like a hotel ready that's what we call it so you can have a relaxed feeling your home going to be ready when you get a phone call in the morning and they're coming in the afternoon to look at your house and everything is going to be ready for you to help staging get top dollars for your home well it all starts in the beginning with before you even list your home so you want to have everything visible to somebody who's going to walk through your house and see if they want to see you know the floors the ceiling the walls the tile maybe hardwood flooring many you know beautiful summer more porches and you're going to have things that are needing repair already pretty much attended to so things like  three comparables you're going to be at the top of your game because you're going to be on the top of that comparable is your home is ready your home has been maybe freshly painted or dick uttered properly it's going to have the hotel feel so all those things take place i mean nobody wants to pay for it clattered nobody's ones which they already have so you want to give that feeling like a hotel relaxing you know that it just helps your self faster we all want that we don't want that same thing you know lifestyle change there goes my company lifestyle stagers but it's because it's a lifestyle change you know your home you know you cook and clean and do laundry and all those things in your house and when you go to the stage down and you're going to buy a new home none of that stuff is there or the laundry rooms are cleaned up the dishes aren't piled in the sink you don't have ironing boards out you don't have clutter and toys everywhere so if you're buying something new and you want to be able to see yourself living in something like that a lot of times and this is true they say and yes very true for high and very true for small you know low rent homes lower in homes tend to have their own set of problems hiring homes have problems such as like they're comparing with new homes on the market so you want to update maybe like fixtures and paint and carpet and such but on the smaller room you know those first time homeowner buy that buys those homes and so they have you know one or two children now and they need a bigger home so obviously that house is going to be  know so they're going to have no closet space left the toys are going to be everywhere they may have gotten furniture from their in laws and then they bought new stuff so now they have extra furniture they benefit greatly from staging a home it's not very costly you can we need to make the rooms with bigger the storage less cluttered and there are things like pots and certain things you can use you fill up a pod that goes to your new home when you're ready for it and hold onto it and then select area i'm not sure we know where they put it all but they had a little  guess a lot of people think that home staging is just about the clattering what else about what else about home save for oh you have to vote you have to like a fireplace for example you want to make sure the furniture is focusing on the  fireplace a lot of times you walk in the room the fireplace might be to the left and your your eyes not going there it's going maybe to french's do you have in the corner on to the right so to make it more memorable because that's what's on your house right way remember what's in it right you want to place the frontier in the proper position maybe to see the fireplace or if you're going from a kitchen to a family room you don't want to block that off with a couch because it's uninviting and it separates the rooms and chops them up so there's a lot of furniture and there's different avenues you might not want to do any of it at all but it's really important and flight if you know you see four or five times when you stay home those potential buyers are looking at all these homes in one day right stager well if you have your home staged before an agent comes and they bring three comparables guess what's comparable your home is going to be on the top of that list you're going to be in the top of your game we're going to get the highest priced out what's it like when you hear you call wanted to cause you to go halfway around the world peace corps life is calling how far will you  come do something then like you can control and this booklet can help from keeping your family healthy to saving for retirement or your free copy now from the american diabetes association because you want everyone to be healthy and happy don't see so look at the cutter and everybody has that in their home we live like that but we don't want that so we want to lifestyle change it even if it is to clutter you can notice that you can't see the floor you can't see out the window there living room oh wow mornings there that you don't see there's a lack of color on the wall so nobody wants to know that that's where they have to put their office that is just not good right not memorable but the rest of the house that's what you're going to remember that's not going to better than the picture alone without those heavy bright lights in lansing it just makes a really nice yes that's what you want to know that when someone's coming to your home that's where you're going to go since that's you know that's a lifestyle change that's a big beautiful room now very very nice that's a condo that that's but on the market for quite a while before we staged it but you know you can rent furniture and it's not very costly it's you know less than your first reduction going to be i can tell you that right so nobody  visualize what's in this this term here you can see what to do with that kind of space that's taken you from a living around to a kitchen you don't have a second living room in this condo and the kitchen is just you think yourself where am i going to put everything staging an empty home is very important nobody wants to live in an empty house writing them up not want to buy something and to use your price is going to be lower you know when you felt like that when you put furniture and you'll see a big difference well in this picture any time home staging gives the seller the opportunity to make a lasting first impression buyers want homes that offer a life changing experience and one that presents itself to what they don't already have a home is offered to any budget and to homes in any price range and even if you're just thinking about putting your house up for sale so staging is the first step toward success in the sale of your home before you call a realtor why not give  lifestyle stages a call for a free home staging consultation when you mention this program email gina for details that c s p stagers de jure at yahoo dot com or visit us both on peter's got patch dot com thank you to all the students and staff here at channel seven and thank you for watching the state agency and remember the home state owned cell cracker and from your money the next time