3 Tips to Staging the Outside of Your Home Like a Pro

Are you granted in putting your house up for sale, but not sure where to start? Afraid it will takes too long to sell, or that you did not get the price you want? Think about “staging” your home, or in other words, setting the scene for instant buyer interest in your property.

To be really influential, you need to look at both the outside and the inside of your home. Here are 3 tips to get you begin with the outside of your home:

1. Go stand on the street to see what clients see when driving up to the house. Be conscious that any negative assumption they get outside the house (landscaping not maintained or non-existent, peeling paint, etc.) is just going to make them devise that the house itself has not been well taken care of. So even if you have spent the time and money to arrange the interior, it would all be wasted if the clients get a bad first impression as they drive up to the house.

2. Next, step outside your front door and close the door; then place on the stoop and look around for 5 minutes. While the realtor fumbles for keys and tries to think out how to open the door, the clients are standing behind and looking around. So what are they seeing? Dead plants, old Halloween decorations in the middle of January, cobwebs?  Again, not a good first impression!

It’s certainly worth it to take some time and clean it up. Want to go a step further? Try a new coat of paint or some new furniture or accessories.

3. Don’t neglect the backyard. While that might not be part of the possible buyers’ first impression experience, you still must make sure it’s in the best condition possible. Pull up weeds, water plants, do some sweeping (if that’s applicable in your case) and maybe even purchase new furniture or accessories (plant pots, bird houses, etc.)

And the large tip of all? Imagine yourself as a possible buyer looking at your property for the very first time. What impressions are you getting? Would YOU buy your house? What would you like to see changed before you put an offer on your house?

And don’t worry about utilizing several thousand dollars to get your house ready to sell – you’ll get it all back when your house sells. Proper staging support you sell your house in a shorter time and at the price you want.