Tempted to Leave a Room or Home Empty?

Once a new home or renovation is completed, the decision to invest additional money for staging services can be a difficult one to make.

Now is not the time to save a few dollars! Home Staging has consistently proven to add value to any real estate investment.

Potential home buyers have a difficult time imagining the house as a home. A vacant home feels cold and impersonal. It is often a challenge to visualize how furnishings will look. Additionally, most vacant rooms seem SMALLER than they really are!

Staging Creates the Vital Finishing Touches the Home Needs to Help Ensure you Sell Quickly & Make the Profit you Deserve.

5 Reasons It's a Bad Idea to Leave Rooms Empty When Showing your House

1. People don't buy houses, they buy homes.

2. It's hard to understand how large a room is when there's nothing in it as a reference point.

3. People can't visualize how furniture will fit in an empty space and if they're unsure - they don't buy.

4. When a room is empty prospective buyers focus on negative details instead of falling in love with the overall space. Instead of looking at the flow of one room to another, they get bogged down in questions like: Is the drywall smooth? Will those bumps in the carpet come out? How come the closet doesn't have a hanging bar yet? Why doesn't that molding fit perfectly? How come the light switch is in the middle of the wall?

5. When a house or even a few rooms are empty prospective buyers can get distracted from looking at the house. Instead of focussing on whether this is the home for them, they may be busy wondering: Is this a divorce? Have they left town? Are they selling because they have money problems? This train of thought will take them where you, as a vendor, don't want them to go! They'll start thinking, "maybe I can put in a low ball offer since the seller might be desperate."