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Is Your Home Up To Par?

Selling your Chicago home can be quite the roller coaster experience. Don't let it be. Check out this list of things you might forget to look over before selling your home so you can maximize your money and minimize your time!

 

How to Really Decultter Your Chicago Home for Buyers

Your Chicago real estate agent has come to your house to assess what needs to be done to sell it the quickest. The word, "declutter," continues to come up. You assure your agent that you are a very neat person and that everything will be clean when the potential buyers come to view it. Many sellers in Chicago encounter the same situation each day. What Chicago agents wish their selling clients would understand is that decluttering is more than just keeping the baseboards dust-free and the countertops wiped down. Try some of the following tips and wow your Chicago real estate agent, and especially, your buyers.

 

50 Tips for Staging Your Chicago Home

"Home staging" and the concept has become well known as "house fluffing," "dressing to sell," and "home presentation" to name a few, but the concept has not taken hold among home owners when selling a condo in Chicago because many people do not understand the idea or cannot create a workable plan for staging their condo correctly.

 

Can't Homebuyers Use Their Imagination and Look Past The Decor

Only a mere 10% of homebuyers in Chicago can actually visualize the potential of a home. This is why having a vacant home professionally staged is so important. Buyers in Chicago cannot visualize size and scale so furniture helps to give them a frame of reference.

 

Why Can't I Just Stage My Own Chicago Home?

Home sellers in Chicago are usually incapable of successfully staging their own home. Why? Because our homes are like our children, we don't always see all of its flaws. We've gotten used to the way it looks and in fact it is difficult emotionally to change it. If you can't view something objectively then you are unable to market and package it effectively. Not to mention most home sellers in Chicago don't "stage" homes everyday for a living. That's what professionals are for and that is where the greatest returns come in when selling your home in Chicago.

 

Is My House Worth Being Professionally Staged?

Even spending a mere $500 for an initial consultation should net you thousands in return and speed of sale of your home in Chicago based upon statistical data.