The value of staging ?

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Anonymous wrote:Staging grew big just as the housing market went online and realtors' role in finding buyers evaporated. Coincidence?

Not a coincidence at all - pictures play a huge role in selling

Exactly what role DO agents play? Because they can’t even bother to work their own open houses. They send warm bodies with no knowledge of the property at all who don’t bother to make people sign in and let any random person wander through your house.

It is a protectionist guild. But necessary, unfortunately

What is necessary? That they want their big, fat commission checks but can’t be bothered to work for it?

Our landlords just did an open house and despite promising us it would only be realtors with clients, it was public and the agent sent “friends” to “work” and they let everyone on who came to the door and said it was “so great” to have nosy neighbors walk through every corner of our private living space. Zero respect for people and their lives. It’s all about getting their check.

Lol. Yes it is all about getting their check. They’re there to sell.

Realtors are necessary bc it’s very hard to market a house without one. Even if you don’t have one, the buyers may. Even in best case scenarios you shrink the pool of buyers, which is essentially shrinking demand. Lower demand = lower price.

There’s a reason most sellers use an agent, it’s not because they’re rubes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Staging grew big just as the housing market went online and realtors' role in finding buyers evaporated. Coincidence?

Not a coincidence at all - pictures play a huge role in selling

Exactly what role DO agents play? Because they can’t even bother to work their own open houses. They send warm bodies with no knowledge of the property at all who don’t bother to make people sign in and let any random person wander through your house.

Hate this. It’s true tho

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Anonymous wrote:My home was stage but I don’t think it looked staged. Main thing was we cleared a lot of stuff out will still looking lived in. We still had clothes in the closets and dishes in the cabinets, just a lot less. We also removed everything from closet floors. Our house look fabulous and I think it helped sell the house.

What furniture or items were brought in to stage it?

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Anonymous wrote:Irrelevant in a low supply / high demand SFH sales market— like today.

If the house has been maintained well, is in a desirable neighborhood, has a good school catchment, and appeals to its targeted market (families w school aged kids, single people, retirees), you do not need to wasted time staging the house.

Just declutter, freshen the paint, put it on the market.

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Where do you put your stuff when you stage your home?

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Anonymous wrote:Where do you put your stuff when you stage your home?

Garage or storage unit.

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Anonymous wrote:Where do you put your stuff when you stage your home?

Garage or storage unit.

Are there stagers who would solve this for you? Sounds like a common problem? (We don't have a garage).

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95 Kane Street (2nd link) I couldn't even tell which one was staged, they were both so beautiful (but I liked the nursery more!).

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Anonymous wrote:Good staging is very helpful, bad staging is maybe counter productive.

Some people will tell you that they don’t like staging and that’s their personal opinion - but good staging allows good pictures. Good staging + good pictures = best possible position in the market.

I am not a realtor.

A good realtor can bring in some accents or artwork to stage it.
Not demand you out everything into storage and pay to rent their furniture for a couple months.

Staged “accent pieces” are usually just sad. There are the ubiquitous mirrors in sun frames (not big enough to make the room look bigger, either) and the bland paintings that look like cheap hotel art. Why do people think this helps?

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It would be nice to see homes without a faux staged veil.

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I want to see a vacant, freshly painted, deep-cleaned home without carpet or dust collectors like fabric anything in a home. I can use my imagination.

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Anonymous wrote:Where do you put your stuff when you stage your home?

Garage or storage unit.

Are there stagers who would solve this for you? Sounds like a common problem? (We don't have a garage).

No. You rent a POD. This is not rocket science.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to see a vacant, freshly painted, deep-cleaned home without carpet or dust collectors like fabric anything in a home. I can use my imagination.

This is what we plan to do.

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Anonymous wrote:I recently went to a showing for a house where they did zero staging and no paint touch ups nothing.. Made us think if the owners were unable to afford basic touch ups and some base level staging that they might have not taken care of/maintained less visible things in the home as well that would cost us in the long run like chimney, plumbing, roofing, electrical etc.

You're absolutely right. Deferred maintenance on small things usually means that there is deferred maintenance on big things, which leads to a money pit buy.

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I've always thought staging was kind of pointless until recently. I've been looking at houses online and I scan very quickly through the photos of the empty houses because all the rooms look the same and I have a hard time imagining myself there. It's much easier for me to figure out whether or not I like the interior of a house when there is furniture in the pictures.