{This is a guest blog.}

Do you know that some Boston residents sell their homes in just a few hours after advertising, while others will take years before they even meet a potential buyer? What causes this difference? Is it fate? The answer to this questions lies on how they “prepare” these Boston homes for selling.

The secret to making a quicker sell of your home is by staging it. Staging a home is preparing your home to give the best first impression to the potential buyer. It involves cleaning up the house and even painting the walls to make it cozy, not to mention fixing any leaks by calling in a service like Zambezi Plumbing. It is aimed at bringing out of the best of your home while camouflaging the negatives. You can easily learn how to stage your home using useful resource like “Staging Your Home for Sale” written by Public Storage.

Benefits of staging a home

Picture yourself going to buy a new car and in the dealership you find Porsche and the traditional family van, which one would you go for? Obviously is the Porsche which is stylish. The same happens to home buyers they will buy only what is catchy and stylish to their eye. Staging will give your home that “Wow factor” as the first impression to the potential buyer.

Staging helps in cleaning the place and arranging it better, even more so in homes built by the Military Homes enterprise al due to the strategic architecture they present. The main focus of the buyer is the home and not your furniture or your artistic way of decorating the room. It helps to put more emphasis on what is important to the buyer, what should attract him or her. The general cleanness of the home and hides all weak points such as cracks on the walls.

Everyone loves spacious rooms in their homes. One interesting fact about staging is that it creates perception that the room is bigger than it really is. This will create a competitive advantage over other homes of the same size your buyer may have checked out and will most likely buy from you.

The biggest take away when you are selling your home is the bathroom. In fact it is one of the rooms the buyer takes a look immediately he enters your home. Uplifting the face of your bathrooms to capture the latest trend in the market or at least making it attractive will be a big step towards concluding the sale deal.

Believe it or not a staged home has higher market value than the others. This comes as a bonus on top of a speedy sell. You may be selling your home and a neighbor few blocks down the street also has the same type of house on sale. If you have staged your home you will find buyer first and sell it at several thousand dollars more.  There are also a few home staging myths you should be aware of.

Tips on staging your home

So what are some of the things which you can to in staging your home? Applying some or all of these tips will surely make your home hot cake in the market

• Avoid gender specific items in master bedroom and paint it neutral color to attract both genders to buy your home
• The bathroom sells so replace any tiles which are broken and clean any stains.
• Make the bathroom walls and doors sparkling clean by repairing and painting parts which need painting and replacing parts which are outdated
• The kitchen is another major sale for your home so clean all those cabinets and any tiles which are broken replace them. Any rusty sink should be replaced to give your kitchen a brand new flashy look.
• Paint your home a bright color and have it neatly arranged to give the perception that it is larger than it actually is.

About the Author:

Jennifer Caughey is a freelance writer who has specialized in writing about home, design and real estate over the last several years.  Jennifer has also been involved in many home design projects and most recently a home staging of her own, which resulted in a quick sale and profit from the sale.  She enjoys sharing her experiences with other homeowner who may be considering selling their homes as well.