How to Successfully Stage Your Home or Listing from Beautiful Staged Homes 

Successfully selling your home in today's tough real estate market requires that you price it right - and stage it beautifully.  There’s no escaping the raw power of first impressions, especially when it comes to selling your home. Each time a potential buyer drives up to your home and walks through your front door, you want their immediate reaction to be: WOW!

How do you accomplish this? Stage your home. Staged properties consistently spend 78% less time on the market.  So if you want your home to sell quickly, especially in this current market, you need to stage it. Especially with over 80% of home buyers finding their homes online, great photos of beautifully done homes are critical to getting it sold. 

In this 3 hour long workshop you will learn how to:

• Create what potential buyers will look for in a home
• Paint your home properly: What colors to use and to avoid
• Creatively disguise the less-than-desirable aspects of your home
• Bolster the “positives” of your home and create memorable focal points
• Take better photos of your home
• Furnish a vacant home on a budget (vacant homes always take much longer to sell, so it’s vital that you have furnishings when selling)
• Do “vignette” staging: Creating a warm and inviting room with very little furnishings and accessories
• Stage the most important rooms (kitchen and baths) beautifully
• And much, much more

You will also receive:

• Home staging checklists
• PLUS…Bring in or email us a picture of your most problematic room - and we will give you great ideas for it.

Staging is essential in helping you bring a buyer’s vision to life and can make a big impact on the selling price and the time it spends on the market.  Come and learn from seasoned professionals – so that your property will be the best it can be, so that it will sell quickly and for potentially more money.

Who should attend this workshop:  All home sellers, FSBOs, realtors, homebuilders, investors and anyone who may be thinking of selling their home in the future.

ABOUT THE FACULTY & BEAUTIFUL STAGED HOMES

 As accomplished, certified home stagers, Beautiful Staged Homes views homes objectively - with "buyers" eyes. The company benefitted from the rigorous training of Barb Schwarz (who started the staging industry over 35 years ago) of StagedHomes.com. Experienced in using time-tested, cost-effective techniques that have worked on a national level, Linda Leyble and her team have staged many homes on Long Island - most of these sold in less than a week. In addition, as trained decorative painters, the company can magically transform dated countertops or cabinetry into designer showpieces - for a fraction of the cost of demolishing and buying new. Linda's decorative painting company (www.studio ofdecorativearts.com) was awarded the "Best of Long Island 2008" award - and has been nominated again for 2010 by the readers of the Long Island Press.

 Marty Wiesehahn: Aside from a 35 year career as a decorative painter/artist, Marty also owned and operated a successful real estate “virtual tours” company.  Marty’s decorative work has also been seen in many Designer Showhouses in New York.  He worked with many interior designers during his long career – and was designer Claudia Dowling’s decorative artist for over 32 years. 

Linda and Marty recently designed a room for the Designer Showhouse at Caumsett State Park this past summer.  The room was wonderfully received.  After the experience of doing this - we can honestly say that there's a huge similarity between designing a showhouse and staging a home for sale.  Presentation is everything!