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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.