Staging Benefits

Home Staging is the wisest and the most profitable way for selling a home faster, and for the highest possible price.

Home Staging creates a warm, inviting and desirable atmosphere for the potential real estate buyers. In addition, a staged home emphasizes on all the hidden values and potential use of the spaces. While it will suggests solutions to the potential buyer for small flaws and keep their attention to the more positive advantages that the home has to offer.

Home Staging can transform a tired, old, stuffed and outdated house to a charming, open, fresh, and updated home. A remodeled or staged, and move in ready home, attracts many more potential buyers, speed up selling the house, and brings more profit to the home seller. Generally the profit you make is much more than the cost of the staging.

If you plan to remodel, updating your kitchen and bathroom, modifying walls and layout, adding room, or changing your flooring, windows, cabinetry, light fixtures, and appliances, we recommend choosing environmentally friendly materials and fixtures, such as bamboo flooring and low voltage lighting,and no VOC paint. This can be an added value to your home for buyers with allergy and health issues.

Kitchen remodeling normally has the highest average return on investment when selling your house. In average, by updating your kitchen, you may get about around 90 per cent of the cost back. By updating your bathrooms, you may also get a high per cent of the cost back. You may also get rebates for replacing your old heating and cooling system, refrigerator, clothes washer, dryer, and dishwasher with energy efficient equipment and appliances.

Go to Energy Star for Special Offers and Rebates from ENERGY STAR Partners. In addition, you may also be eligible for federal tax credits if you make energy-efficient improvements to your home. Energy efficiency can also be an added value to your home.

Los Angeles Department of Water (800) 203-7380 has a program that offers the following for free.
Free Equipment and Free Installation by LADWP Water Conservation Distribution Program:
Toilets, Showerheads, Bathroom and Kitchen faucet aerators are provided free of charge for installation in residential customer homes and apartments.
Or you can get $100/unit for Single Family, $75/unit for Multifamily Rebates for Ultra-Low-Flush toilets. — One-time rebate per owner per property.

Decision about updating and remodeling must be along with a realistic evaluation of the value of the home and the remodeling cost. Sometimes minor remodeling ($2000-$8500) may return more value to the seller (94 to 102 per cent of the cost), while major kitchen remodeling ($9,000-$25,000) may return up to 90 per cent. Remember, “kitchen sell the house”. Kitchen upgrade is considered to be the number one in bringing the highest return.

According to NAR’s (National Association of Realtors) statistics, 80% of buyers shop for Updated kitchen and bath.

The Cost of Home Staging is minimal because Home Staging pays for itself, when the seller is able to sell higher and faster.

There are three ways to do home staging.

First home staging option is the basic DIY Home Staging, by using a home stage designer's report of your home.

The second option is obtaining a “Home Staging Master Plan™” which is beyond the basic DIY home staging, and designed specifically for your home.

The third option is to get a full service home staging and to do so, Hire a Professional Designer to do the entire project for you.

The size of the home and the amount of the work involved, and other factors will be the basis of calculating the cost.