According to a report just out, it is too easy to be fooled by home staging. Gradually, we are becoming familiar with a certain term called home staging. When selling the house, it is the idea that we try to create the best impression of our home. It used to be just run the vacuum over it and do the dishes but nowadays there is a whole set of rules to follow!
A staged home will stand out from all the others and because of this fact, it will get sold more quickly. There are reports of sellers hiring storage units cart their junk off to and this is an example of it being carried to extremes. Encouraged to be put into the storage by professional 'home stagers' are larger furniture in order for the house to look bigger and more spacious.
Another instruction is to remove anything personal like photographs, so that the prospective buyer can visualize the house as their own. Closets are de-cluttered so that they look more spacious and all bathroom paraphernalia is supposed to be gone from the counter top! Other things that are removed and hidden from sight are garbage bins.
Home staging can also be deliberately used and this has been suggested in order to hide a multitude of sins.
The National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents (NAEBA, who solely represent buyers in the realty business) has suggested that as much as 82% of buyers are sidetracked from the important issues by a well-staged house. This organization also concedes that home staging works because it actually nets more cash and faster sales.
In staging, there are some underhand tricks that are used and these include using smaller furniture to make a room look larger, placing rugs over damaged parts of the floor, or using curtains to hide rotting sills. Another thing that's specified is the practice of putting a cheap paint job so that the defects will be covered. Your Realtor is legally obligated to let you know of any defects, but only if he actually knows about them!
Urged by the NAEBA to be cautious are the buyers and they should remember that when the house is sold, the stage is taken away. The tricks of home staging do not improve the floor plan, or the square footage of the home or the quality of the neighborhood, and these are the qualities that you will be re-selling at a later date.
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