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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like a lot of posters on this thread are 55+ and haven't bought a house in 10 years. Things are different now, agents charge a 5% commission and many (if not most) of them include staging as part of their services. Some will do "virtual staging" where they photoshop in your pics, but I think that's so lame.[/quote]

Yes, we know staging is a “thing” as you young whippersnappers say.  :roll: That’s the point of OP’s thread.

Let me help you. What OP and others are asking is whether staging is worth it. Or whether instead it’s something unnecessary that realtors introduced to stay relevant in an era where you no longer need them to point you to open houses because you can find them online yourself with just a few clicks.

Also whether realtors love staging because they get some kind of payback from referring their own contractors to you. The payback could be “soft” in the form of gratis repairs on their own homes, or could take the form of actual kick-backs as one pp suggested. One naive but smug person claimed it was sad to question this. Another realtor says s/he never takes the hard kickbacks—but who knows about the thousands of other realtors.

Another question is whether “staging” just means getting rid of your furniture and moving in their ivory-colored furniture and wall mirrors in sun frames. Or whether it also includes the painting and repairs—which we all already knew we needed to do, thank you very much.

Feel free to comment on any of this without your insults. [/quote]

You got all of that out of OP's question? Because I thought she asked: What do you think? did you find yourself influenced by a staged home? Will you stage your home when you sell?

My answer as someone who just bought a new house and sold an older one: anyone who says they're not influenced by a staged home is lying. We can all see the potential in a vacant or cluttered or run down home, but the staging definitely makes things look nicer. Yes, we staged our home when we sold because we had already moved out so it was vacant. Our realtor paid for her stager to make recommendations for updates to our house (we did maybe half of those) and to bring in furniture/artwork/accessories to fill the rooms. I think it worked - everyone that had been to our home previously and saw it staged said it looked amazing. My own incredibly critical mother who hated our house kept talking about how it looked so much bigger, so much more livable, etc... so to me, that's proof that the staging worked. [/quote]

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