Staged 2 Perfection

When getting your home ready for the market, you must walk through your home with “buyer’s eyes”. You have to be able to see your home as other people would when evaluating what needs to be done for a fast sale!

Typically, if an item is sentimental to you, chances are you need to remove it from the room. If you have a collection displayed, lots of trinkets and figurines, family photos or any other thing that would be considered clutter or personal, it needs to be removed! Pack up anything that is very taste specific, like unusual or crazy art!

Create a space that a wide variety of people could imagine themselves in and calling it home! When you personalize it, you create a barrier to potential home buyers from seeing themselves calling it home!

If you need help disassociated yourself from your home, call a friend over. If you really need help, call a professional home stager here in the Quad Cities! We are trained to do exactly what needs to be done to sell your home fast and for top dollar!

Staged 2 Perfection moves you to the next stage of your life…faster!

Staged 2 Perfection is offering a special free one-hour consultation to all of their listings in the Quad Cities area. This gives the real estate agent the opportunity for a Professional Home Stager to consult with their client in order to help get the home in the “showhome” condition that it should be in when it is listed.

Let Staged 2 Perfection do all the hard work for you and deal with the sensitive issues that you shouldn’t have to address. We will do our job in staging and transforming the home, you just do what you do best…sell it!

Having a new construction or a vacant home on the market can be frustrating! When you have a home that is vacant, especially a home that has been previously lived in, the buyers will come in and only see the bones! If there is nothing to detract the eye, buyers will only focus on the negatives of the home or the problem areas. Those not-so-hot features like a crack in the wall, scratch on the floor or a stain on the ceiling will stand out like a sore thumb!

Another problem with having the home missing furnishings is that it doesn’t have that homey feel that is needed to seal the deal and get the sale. People don’t by houses, they buy homes.

Filling a vacant home with attractive furnishings and decor will help give provide that emotional connection with the home buyer while helping to take the focus off of the homes least attractive features.

Help home buyers focus on the homes greatest features and give them that “at home” feeling that will have them singing…”this is IT”.

Staged 2 Perfection is that professional staging company that can make this happen! We have partnered up with a local furniture company that has given absolute rock-bottom prices on leasing furniture for the home! We have the best prices in the Quad Cities….guaranteed! Give us a call and we will transform your space for a SUPER fast sale at a SUPER affordable price!

Some people may thing that home staging may be more complicated than it really is. Staging your home can usually be just a matter or clearing out the clutter and taking things out that are personal to you, such as photos, specific taste artwork, furnishings or decor!

Even though this, in theory, seems so simple, this may be the most difficult part for home owners. They believe that people will love those items just as much as they do! I mean, who couldn’t love that cute picture of your 3-year-old washing his own hair in the tub! There are two major problems with that picture. One, homebuyers get distracted by the photos and other things that they are not focused on the item that is for sale…THE HOUSE! The only thing that they will remember about your house is your cute pictures! We want them to remember your fabulous kitchen or the fabulous fireplace, not junior! The second problem is that even if they do remember the house and its features, they have a hard time imagining themselves in that home. It seems personal to YOU and your family, but not them.

In home staging, the idea is make them walk into your home, notice the home and its greatest features. You don’t want home buyers distracted by personal items or clutter. 90% of homebuyers don’t have the imagination to picture themselves living there. The home has to do that for them!

That is where a professional home stager comes in! We use our expertise and unbiased eye to evaluate the home and decide what needs to go and what can stay! We are not attached to your items. We can give you honest, objective direction that will sell your home fast!

Staged 2 Perfection plays a crucial part in staging homes in the Quad Cities so that they sell faster and for more money, however, that is not all that we do!

Staged 2 Perfection also does Interior Redesign! Interior redesign is a lot like home staging, yet it is different. It is the same in the fact that we still use and build around what the home owner already has to give the home a dramatic new look! It is different because home staging revolves around making the home as warm, comfortable and inviting for hundreds of home buyers, where interior redesign focuses on the home owners specific tastes, desires and wants for the home to make that space complete theirs and not for someone else’s wants!

Interior redesign is a great budget-friendly way to make you feel like you are walking into a new home! We can create space to give you that exact feeling that you want to experience as soon as you walk into a room whether it be relaxing, energetic or just cozy and comfortable!

Redesign is MUCH more affordable than interior decorating and you will shocked at the difference just a little bit of imagination and the re-use and repositioning of your own accessories, decor and furniture can make!

Be prepared to fall in LOVE with your home! Let Staged 2 Perfection work their magic today!!

Realtors that don’t take advantage of using a professional home stager aren’t using every resource possible to get their listing sold! There are many advantages to using a Home Stager as a part of your listing package. A professional home stager could greatly benefit your career, reputation and your pocket book.

Most Realtors are nervous about spending the additional money on the listing, fearing that if it doesn’t work, that is money that they will be out. However, Professional home staging has been proven to work all over this country, including the Quad Cities! The more that you invest to make the house picture perfect, the faster that you sell that home. Stop suggesting price reductions because that in turn is just more money that both you and the homeowner lose!

Here are some benefits to partnering up with Staged 2 Perfection:

1. Fast sale – staged homed average time on the market is 85% less than an unstaged home!
2. More money – Staged homes sell for 5-15% more money! Plus, with a faster sale and no price reduction, that again is another way that their is a better monetary gain for you!
3. Credible Reputation – when potential home buyers are walking through and browsing your listings, they will notice that your listings stand out amongst the competition! Word of mouth is your best advertisement! You will be the one to call when they need to sell their home.
4. Higher traffic – After home buyers view your beautiful listing photos online, they will have to come see the home. Plus, when your fellow agents know that you have a home that is buyer-ready and in showcase condition, they will naturally bring their clients to your listings first!
5. Less stress – Using a professional to stage your listing will prove to be less work and less stress on you. Knowing that Staged 2 Perfection will take care of the home seller and their home, implemented all the staging techniques, dealing with the home seller on the sensitive parts of their home and taking our time and resources to get the home in tip-top shape will ultimately give you peace of mind!
6. More time to get more listings – Getting listings is what makes you money! Giving the job of staging your listings to Staged 2 Perfection creates more time for you to do what makes you money!
7. Your clients will be happy – Happy clients make for EXCELLENT referrals! Referrals can make or break your career whether you are already successful or just starting out!
8. Gain more listings – Because of your reputation for your beautiful, fast selling listings, you will have more home sellers contacting you and not to mention those that will come to you from your referrals from your happy clients whose house you sold!
9. Less work – Staged 2 Perfection will do all the work for you!
10. Industry status – Other agents will see your listings and know that you go above and beyond! They will be more likely to bring their clients to your listings first, knowing that they are buyer-ready!

Call us today at (309) 721-1892 to see how Staged 2 Perfection can accelerate your career and make you more money!

Staging is fairly simple to implement! If you have a good grasp of the fundamentals of staging, a good eye for design and desire to get it done, you can stage your own home. The hardest part of staging your own home, is that homeowners have a hard time being objective in their home or with the things of their home!

Let’s say that you inherited this beautiful dining room set from your grandmother! It is considered an antique and full of character and detail, yet chances are that home buyers may have a problem with them set. Not personally, but here is what can happen. The set may be too big for the room, causing the room to look crowded and small. Antiques are taste specific and not many home buyers today like them, and not matter how exquisite the set is to you, it may turn them off. It also may serve as a distraction. You don’t want home buyers to focus on your grandmother’s dining set, you want them to be able to picture themselves eating a meal with their family in that room!

Home sellers have to remember that you are not selling your stuff, you are selling your house! Pack up and store those distracting and outdated things in your home, especially if they crowd the room! Let your home buyers see the true potential themselves. A shocking 90% of home buyers don’t have an imagination, so it is your job to do it for them!

If you are having problems being objective in your own home, which is understandable, give us a call! Even if you are the do-it-yourselfer, we can still create a detailed guide for you! It gives you the direction and instruction while you do the work! That is the advantage to having a professional home stager come into your home in the Quad Cities area!

Since the tax credit has ended, the market is likely to drop again, with less people willing to purchase a new home! This means that professional home staging is CRUCIAL now for those homeowners that need to sell their home! The Quad Cities area has seen a substantial rise in market and homes have been selling, yet, we suspect that home sales will decline since the tax-credit is no longer available. You need to make your home stand out amongst the competition! Give your listings that competitive edge that is needed to make a fast and profitable sale! Call Staged 2 Perfection today! The sooner you call, the sooner you sell! (309) 721-1892

Spring is over and summer is now here! Homeowners are starting to feel the crunch of the time frame because their home is still on the market. Were you thinking that your home would already be sold? You should be moving on!

Having your home professionally staged will dramatically increase your chances of selling your home fast. Home staging isn’t just about making the home look “pretty”. It is about making it emotional connections! It’s about creating a space that can be easily envisioned by multiple home buyers as their home! The need to picture themselves and their family living there. That is what sells a home!

I am an expert in home staging and have been trained to know what draws buyers in and what turns them off! I can give you professional and objective advice and direction that will sell your house much faster and for more money.

Good morning all!  I finally got my blog up and running this morning. Trying to figure this out was a challenge, but I have got it figured out now!

Welcome to Staged 2 Perfection! I just would like to start off just to say how blessed I am in being able to get this business going! This is my dream job and I absolutely LOVE what I do!

Home staging is a fun and rewarding career, as two things that are my absolute favorite things to do are;

One: Helping people like me get ahead a little by making more money and moving them to the next stage of your life much faster, by implementing techniques and my budget-savvy knowledge to create an expensive look for very little money!

Two: Is using my God-given talents to transform a not-so-appealing space into something that is beautiful and admired by all who see it.

I will be using this blog to write articles, update you all on the real estate industry and market.