Perfecting Your House for an Open House in Fresno, California

Prior to listing your home for sale, consider a surefire way to sell your house: expert home staging. Home staging benefits include fewer days on the market and more offers. And you should definitely think about professional home staging if you need a quick home sale.

Look at staging your house as creating a "style" for your house the same way a manager would do for a well-known celebrity. Just like creating an image draws more popularity for a public figure, staging makes your real estate a more desirable listing on the market.

Preparing your house for an Open House doesn't have to be a nerve-racking experience. It can actually be enjoyable. Together, we'll work to get a top dollar offer for your property. To see less time on the market in Fresno, start with these house staging tips:

Curb Appeal Checklist

Begin with the outside of your house, or your curb appeal. Examine the outside of your home from a quick glance from the street. What jumps out at you? What wonderful characteristics seem hidden? Understanding this assists us in determining what steps we can take to invite buyers from the street and into your home. If your home's exterior isn't as neat as possible with retouched paint and blooming greenery it's time to get those things done. Follow the Curb Appeal Checklist and boost your home's final selling price.

Welcome Home Checklist

Could a buyer see themselves lounging in your living area, unwinding in your reading nook or hosting a dinner in your eat-in kitchen? We want your home to pleasantly accept buyers and give them a sense of ease. We will help you achieve this by recommending changes that highlight your home's features. We recommend you put in storage anything that gives the look of clutter. Surface areas like tables, desks and counters should be neatly arranged. Knickknacks, sentimental items, family photos, and kids' drawings should get stored away too. We can help you simplify the decor of house. Less than inviting or busy spaces make your home feel unkempt and buyers have a harder time imagining themselves calling your property "home".

Every room gets a once-over. Changes that directly affect your dollars include easy-to-fix items like pieces of furniture that should get rearranged, rooms that need new paint, carpet that needs to be steamed, fixtures that need polishing, and windows that need cleaning.

With RealPro Properties by your side, you'll know that your home is likable and that it's friendly, avoiding "offensive" or "personalized" colors on the walls and furniture. And if the house is empty, you can consider borrowing furnishings. You want your home to look homey as opposed to uninhabited.

Setting the Stage

In the short time that your house will be on the market, we want to capture buyers' attention. Dark living areas can be a real mood killer, so we'll do things like open curtains and change light bulbs where needed to welcome the buyer. Together we'll enhance the ambiance with enjoyable music to listen to while guests experience your home and make sure a delightful scent flows from every area. We'll add cozy-looking throws, and place pillows on your love seat and bed. We want buyers to feel like your home has the potential to be.