Home Staging

Home Staging Works!

March 4, 2018 by Gosia

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From Stress & Clutter to Clear & Beautifully Organized, I turn your space into a wonderful place!

Are you planning on selling your home any time soon?

Almost every time I hear my clients expressing themselves with a simple statement: I’m so stressed and overwhelmed with selling my home. I believe that either you are selling an empty or occupied home, you should consider hiring a Stager.

“Why to Hire a Stager?

As I was being approached by my clients located in Manhattan, New York, I explained to them the importance of Staging before selling a house or condo. You never get a second chance to make a first impression

Buyers are quick to jump to conclusions about a home after a single glance. That’s why more sellers are turning toward professional home stagers to prepare for selling their homes.

A Professional Stager: Helps eliminate clutter

First step is to organize / declutter your home.
Removing papers from tables and furniture
Any personal items that add to the unnecessary clutter such as diplomas, family pictures and anything that relates to your family.
Use design elements in planning out the rooms, space and lighting.
Create traffic patterns to highlight positive attributes of a home while downplaying its negative features.
Suggest to owners design adjustments such as painting neutral colors
Removal of all excessive furniture to open up an additional space and create more open space.

From empty space into beautifully furnished home

Let me give you an example of my client from Hoboken, NJ who was trying to sell his beautiful condo right by the Hudson River for more than 1 million dollars. The place was specious but totally empty. What it means is no furniture, no colors, no imagination of this place when furnished and not a full beauty of this amazing place.

My client contacted me after he realized that potential buyers didn’t have a full interest in this place. Something was missing? STAGING!!!

Consider buyer demographics and buying psychology:

The goal of staging is to make a home appealing to the highest number of potential buyers, thereby selling a property more swiftly and for more money. Staging techniques focus on improving a property’s appeal by transforming it into a welcoming, attractive product that anyone might want.
Staging promotes design elements in planning out the rooms, space and lighting.

It is not to overwhelm potential buyers with wild colors and furniture, even if you think it makes your home “special.”

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Prepare Your Home for Sale

September 20, 2017 by Gosia

My role as a Professional Organizer and Stager is to help my clients and assure them that we can provide the best service and the best solution for them.

Working in the Tri-State Area for over 15 years by helping many Individuals and Businesses, the process of selling homes can be very overwhelming and stressful. One of my clients located in Greenwich, CT asked me to help her and her family with selling the home that they owned for almost 35 years.

First of all, you can’t do it alone!
When it comes to selling and moving services, there are multiple steps involved.

There is nothing more important then to make your home desirable for potential buyers. Remember, you want to sell your home and as the owner, you should do everything whats possible to make it happen. And I’m not going to tell you that will be easy. Almost all the time I hear how overwhelming this process is. This is why you should consider hiring professional organizer and stager who will help you with the process of decluttering, organizing, packing and staging. I also help my clients to find the right moving company, pods, relocation process and so much more.
The first step is to perform decluttering, packing and organizing all spaces and decide what to keep, donate, discard and to sell. This quadruple system will allow you to keep focus during the process of selling your home.

It’s important and necessary to pack all unwanted items room by room including closets in order to create your home open and clutter free.

The owner should consider renting a dumpster if necessary plus renting a storage facility for some items that may have to be removed from their home while selling it.
Everything that you want to keep, should be packed, labeled by categories with room and detailed description, so that you know the full content.

For example, think as you are packing for your favorite trip. You are planning on taking few of your pretty dresses, shirts, shorts etc. The same concept applies into your packing, where you have to think about your new home and its content.

Here is another tip: Think about creating your inventory for your new home, not for your existing one. It will be much easier to unpack knowing where everything goes.

Once packing necessary content of home is done, owner should consider Staging their home.

I’m sure you have seen many photos of homes perfectly organized and staged soon you walk in. You call it ” A Catalog Home”simply because you think it’s perfect. What if I tell you that home can look amazingly attractive to all potential buyers. Yes,you as a seller have to do some homework by looking at your home and decide what’s best solution for your home, what type of organizing your home needs, what repairs and type of staging will allow your home to be shown in the best light?

The easiest way to stage home is to use existing furniture and simply make clients home attractive to potential clients.

During the process of Staging, all spaces should show their beauty and best features, and hide imperfections.
Stager will provide all necessary materials so that client doesn’t have to worry about the process. Please note that clients can be fully involved with the project if they wish.

Always free to contact me if you have any questions.

~ Maggie

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Sellers Real Estate Market

September 13, 2017 by Gosia

[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Sellers Real Estate Market: Common Mistakes Buyers Make

As a stager working in the Tri-State Area, I understand the importance of preparing homes and condos for sale, organizing and staging them and most of all, making them desirable for potential buyers.

One of my clients located in Saddle River, Bergen County, NJ, was asking me about staging her home and sell it at the highest possible price.

I’m not a Real Estate agent. I’m a stager, organizer and decorator. I will turn your space into a beautiful space. I have no doubt that I will create much less stress during a process of selling your home.

Yes, markets fluctuates and it depends on other factors, like is it buyer’s or seller’s market.

But what happens when you’re looking for a home in a seller’s market?

First of all, you need a plan in place to avoid making mistakes.
As The real estate market fluctuates, it’s much tougher to predict whether the market will favor buyers or sellers.

The question is, how much do you want a house in a hot market?

You may make a mistake if it’s not your best offer!

Offering lower than asking price is a reasonable strategy, especially if the house is overpriced compared with other similar homes in the area, or if it’s a buyer’s market with lots of available inventory. But trying to get a deal when you’re in a seller’s market might not be the best tactic.

Waiting for too long to make an offer!

When you wait too long, “You are at high risk of losing a home you have fallen in love with. Once you’ve determined the type of home you want, the location you desire, and your price range, and finally find a home that meets your dreams and needs, don’t wait to make an offer.

In a seller’s market, it benefits buyers to get all the help they can. Working with a real estate professional saves tons of time and stress, as they know the ins and outs of the process and can provide tremendous insight regarding upcoming inventory. You will have a much better chance to get a house you want. Just like working with a Stager will help you to prepare the house for sale and make it most desirable to potential buyers.
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