Steps to Preparing Your Home for Sale

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Steps to Preparing Your Home for Sale

Before you put your home on the market, you need to make sure that
it's properly prepared to sell for top-dollar. Today we want to
talk about home staging and why it's such an important step when
you decide to sell your home. 

A home is generally the biggest asset that most Americans own.
Right now, by professionally staging a home before we sell it,
we are able to decrease the average market time from the
Detroit average 196 days to just 53 days. With an average
investment from a homeowner of $1360, we are able to command a
$7600 higher average sale price. So by staging your home
correctly, we can cut the time it's on the market by 2/3 and get
you a 7-1 return on your investment for improvements to the
home. On the Perna team, we use a full time home stager to
assist you with redecorating and demanding top dollar based on
current cosmetic trends. 

Here are the areas where we are seeing the best return on
investment:



Re-landscaping- an average cost of $400, commands
an average return of $2,000


Repainting- an average cost of $700, with an
average return of $3,100


Removing Wallpaper- This average cost of $1,400,
brings an average return of over $4,000


Although it's probably not worth it to do extensive and expensive
home renovations, it is worth putting a little bit of money into
your kitchen and bathrooms so you can make sure they are looking
their best when you are ready to sell.

If you have any questions at all about staging your home or
anything else, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. You can
reach us by phone or e-mail and we would be delighted to assist
you.