Vacant Home Staging - Turn That Cold Into Gold

If you are one of those people that have purchased and moved into your new dream home, but unfortunately haven't sold your old home, then you're likely carrying two mortgages. Selling a vacant home is a real challenge. There are a few things that you should be considering to ensure that you maximize the profit on your sale.
Vacant homes create the impression of being cold and uninviting, through no fault of the home owners. That's just the way most people perceive things. Vacant home staging is the ideal way to remove this obstacle, as it counteracts this unwelcoming sense which potential buyers may be put off by. Most people cannot imagine what a vacant home will look like when it is furnished and live-in ready, and this is a perception gap. This gap prevents buyers from emotionally connecting with the property, which in turn prevents them from seeing the full potential of the property and can lead to buyers haggling on the asking price or even worse, not making the step to place an offer. If this happens a few times, then what you are likely facing is a stale listing. A stale listing means that you will be under pressure to reduce your asking price. As well as losing time, this situation causes a lot of stress and can cramp cash flows. Vacant home staging is your insurance policy to prevent this situation from occurring.
Vacant home staging can turn the cold and stark atmosphere of a vacant home into a warm and welcoming one. In many senses, your cold can be turned to gold, well cash at least. The process involves creating the image that the property is lived in, well cared for, and showcases all of its best elements. This is accomplished through the use of décor, design and room layout to showcase the large functional living space of the previously vacant home. To put things in perspective, vacant home staging can and often is the difference between a successful sale and one that is unsuccessful.
Most homes can be staged for a relatively modest cost. Justifying this investment is the success that it delivers in the form of a higher selling price and the shorter time to sale. Vacant home staging turns that cold into gold.

About the author:
Anne Bourne and her team from StagingWorks provide vacant home staging services in the Toronto area. Anne has been featured as a home staging Toronto expert in the newspapers the National Post and the Globe and Mail, and on the television shows CityTV News and On The Money.

http://www.stagingworks.ca.