home staging Tampa

Home staging consultations are perfect for home sellers who want to benefit from home staging and who are willing to put some time and effort to make more money from the sale of their home. This service is not for someone who simply wants someone else to take care of everything and basically move the home sellers out of their home until the sale goes through. There are enough companies out there that are happy to charge them a fortune to do this. I am not one of them.

Most people do not require the services of a company to come in and do everything for them (including charging them an arm and a leg for the privilege). Most people simply need someone to guide them towards fulfilling their home staging needs with advice and a solid plan of action and helpful tips to achieve success.

It is on this premise that I founded my business and it is my pleasure to help you get your home in top shape prior to sale. I want you to make more money selling your home. I want you to sell it faster and with less stress. Most of all, I want you to achieve these goals without breaking your bank account.

When home sellers contact me to schedule a home staging consultation, I give them a homework assignment to be completed before we meet. I ask them to have their Realtor take them on a tour to visit a minimum of five properties in one day to scout the competition. I ask them to take their Buyer's Eye with them during this process and to keep emotions out of the equation. They need to carefully consider what the other homes offer and they will see first-hand what buyers will be looking at during a tour of homes in their price range and size. I ask them to take good notes and then return to their home and take the time to make more notes while still using their Buyer's Eye. I ask them to take in each room making positive and negative points a buyer will consider in their home.

Now they are ready to schedule a home staging consultation. This consult is both an information and a working session in their home. Many of the rooms will be changed during this meeting. For example, if I think a piece of artwork should be moved to a different wall or that a coffee table would be better moved to another room, we can do it ourselves right there on the spot. The consultation is really a working meeting.

When I first arrive at the home, I will go through the entire house with the owners, from top to bottom. This will help me understand the flow of the house and how many rooms it has. I will be taking a mental inventory of what is in the house as I am walking through it, so when I begin making suggestions, I will already know if there is a table in one room that would work better in a different room, and so forth.

After the walk-through, we will go through the house room-by-room, and I will tell them exactly what needs to happen in very room, down to the last detail. I may recommend certain furniture be removed and put in storage or that furniture be rearranged. I may suggest putting the bed on a different wall or moving things between rooms.

If I think a room needs to be repainted, I will explain why, and I will tell them exactly what color it needs to be painted. If they want to paint it themselves or use their own painter, that's fine. If they want me to recommend a painter, I can do that as well. It is completely up to them. They choose how much of the remaining work they want to do on their own and how much they want me to do, if any. Either way, at the end of the consult they will have a very specific action plan to get their home ready to sell.

I leave them with a Plan of Attack--Game Plan, that will set them up for success. I don't show up empty-handed. I bring packing boxes to get them started, product samples, 8x10 wall color samples, energy-saving light bulbs, checklists, marketing tips and much more. When I leave, they have all the tools they need to help them get their house ready for market while they are still living in it.