Home Staging

STAGING GUIDANCE TO GET THAT HOME SOLD FOR TOP DOLLAR

Our Staging Services

Stage the Bay™ provides consultations, occupied and vacant home staging. Our vacant home staging has a globally inspired, natural green living style that creates harmonious spaces that help get homes sold for top dollar.

Our occupied staging packages use what sellers already have and incorporate our own items to transform their space into what a buyer or visitor is looking for. By providing owners with the tools or with some moderate level installation packages, we can help space plan, budget and create a listing that will be popular.

Our goal is to increase the popularity of your listing so that you can make more money.

Consultation and Detailed Staging Report - $299

All of our packages begin with a discovery call to gather info so that we research your buyer demographic and prepare for our consultation.

For the consultation, we can then meet in person or set up a virtual consultation, your preference. Our intensive home consultation, uses a detailed and customized Staging Report so that you can write down everything that needs to be done to get the home the best price possible!

We follow a design process that ensures maximum return on investment (ROI) for every staging dollar spent. This service is designed to give you all the objective, expert advice you need to do the staging work yourself in the form of a detailed report.

Vacant Home Staging

Vacant homes are especially in need of staging to ensure that the maximum number of buyers will be attracted to the property. Staging will increase the potential number of bids and ultimately higher sales price can be achieved.

In our vacant staging proposal, our company offers a basic, standard and luxury staging options to give you options and work within your budget while making your home BEAUTIFUL!

In all of the packages, we use top quality furnishings in order to achieve that model home look. The home must be prepped and cleaned prior to stager arriving.

For vacant properties, the consultation fee is waived from the package price if it's decided that our company will stage the property.

Occupied Home Power Staging / Mini-Makeover

This staging service is all about rolling up our sleeves and physically staging the main areas of the home based upon the Staging Report recommendations.

We will make HUGE transformations using what you have to make the most of each space!
I will bring a small load of staging accessories in order to give you a visual shopping list and get higher impact photos
We will work for up to 3.5 hours in the home, as well as photograph the transformations as we go

Occupied Home Full-Day Make Over

Do you have a larger home (over 2000 square feet) that could use more than a few hours of work? No problem!

We will make HUGE transformations using what you have to make the most of each space!
I will bring a medium load of staging accessories in order to give you a visual shopping list and get higher impact photos
We will work for up to 6 hours in the home, as well as photograph the transformations as we go

Home must be prepped and cleaned prior to stager arriving
(Up to six hours in the home with any additional hours reverting to a $150 hourly rate)

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Staging

How to stage and sell for the most $$

Three Phases to Home Staging

01.

Maximizing What You Have, so That it Appeals to Buyers

You will be amazed at the dramatic transformations I will be able to accomplish in a single Staging Day using what you already have! Successful home staging must make financial sense and I am experienced and trained in making the most of your current belongings in order to turn buyer traffic into offers. We will start with a Consultation in order to assess your space.

02.

Recommended Purchases or Rentals as “Investments” in Selling Your Home

Working within your budget, I will only recommend purchases that will MORE than pay for themselves in the speed and dollar amount of sale. During the Staging Day, I will bring in accessories in order to get fantastic photos for your Realtor’s marketing efforts and to attract Internet traffic. Over 95% of home buyers are online searching for homes BEFORE they visit a home, so we want to make an excellent first impression and compel them to come to your home.

03.

Simple Yet Dramatic Cosmetic Updates and Changes for ROI

Depending on your budget and timing, we may suggest paint, electrical and other cosmetic improvements that will result in a high return on investment. I will tell you which rooms and improvements are “worth it.”

68%

of Staged Homes sold for at least 9-25% MORE

85%

of Staged Homes sold for at least 6-25% MORE

100%

of Seller's Agents believe staging has a positive impact

Staging FAQ's

Although professional staging is a relatively new industry, people have been "fixing up" their homes to sell for decades. These days due to HGTV home buyers have an "expectation" and are willing to pay quite a bit more for a home that is "model home" looking.

If you could get 10% more on the sale of your home, how much would that be?

What is home staging?

Home Staging is the preparation of a home to sell by a professional who specializes in this form of design and has been certified and trained on the art of home staging. Many definitions you have seen no doubt stop after the word “sell” and that is part of the big misconception and devaluation of home staging. A professional home stager has the resources and can objectively view the home as a product and highlight its assets while downplaying its flaws. The home seller cannot view their home objectively, while many successful Realtors do not have the time or trade resources to properly stage a home.

How much does home staging cost?

For as little as a few hundred dollars you can have a detailed list of what you can do to maximize the value of your home!

Why can't I stage my own home?

Home sellers are usually incapable of successfully staging their own home. Why? Because our homes are like our children, we don’t always see all of its flaws. We’ve gotten used to the way it looks and in fact it is difficult emotionally to change it. If you can’t view something objectively then you are unable to market and package it effectively. Not to mention most home sellers don't "stage" homes everyday for a living. That’s what HSR Certified professionals are for and that is where the greatest returns come in.

Why do I need to stage?

Even if your house sells quickly in a good market, it doesn’t mean it sold for the amount it would have sold for had it been professionally staged. Remember, HSR Certified professionally staged homes sell on a conservative average for10%+ more in a good market (see the Latest Home Staging Statistics).

Can't home buyers use their imagination and look past my decor or empty rooms?

Only a mere 10% of home buyers can actually visualize the potential of a home and most of these folks are "investors" or "flippers" who will hammer you on price. In our Consultation walk through, I will identify those "price eroding" factors of your home, so that you can do the simple fixes that maximize returns.

This is also why having a vacant home professionally staged is so important. Buyers cannot visualize size and scale so furniture helps to give them a frame of reference.

HSR Certified Stagers average 10% more for their clients

Staged Homes Sell Faster

According to a study of over 13,000 homes by the Real Estate Staging Association (RESA), professionally staged homes sell much faster averaging only 23 days on market!

Staged Homes Provide Return on Investment

With an average investment of 1%, approximately 75% of home sellers saw a 5-15% over asking price return on investment!

Staged Homes Sell for More Money

In that same RESA Study of 13,000 homes a majority 85% sold for 5-23% over list price!

Top Ten Reasons to Stage

8-Steps In Each Room So Buyers Fall In Love

Stage the Bay believes that successful staging is the art of using marketing and design techniques to create an environment that buyers can “aspire” to. “If I buy this house, I can live like this.” At Stage the Bay we use the art of “positioning” to create several “emotional connection points” throughout the home so that when a buyer steps into the house they “feel home.” This is it. This is the one.

What does “feeling home” look like? For Stage the Bay, it’s a combination of eight things we analyze in each room in order to create a lasting impression for the homebuyer:

First Impressions

We will walk through your home room by room, taking note of our first impressions, what grabs us, what glares at us, and what gives us a feeling of home.

Eliminating Clutter

The packing starts now, as we pack away a good percentage of everything in the room in order to create a more clean, open and spacious feel.

Emphasizing the Positive Elements of the Space

Finding your beautiful focal points, we will emphasize what we love about the room and hide or distract the negative aspects of the rooms.

Lighten Up

Focusing on lighting and color, we will make each room into a bright, warm and inviting space buyers can respond to.

Home Buyer’s Appeal

In order for a buyer to “feel home,” they need to not be reminded of this being your home. We’ll depersonalize the space while retaining the warmth and fun of photos.

Obligations - Cleaning and Repairs

The dirty work speaks for itself but is often overlooked because you’ve lived here for so long. Let’s get rid of the buyer’s mental repair list by doing it ourselves.

Modernizing

This involves updating your style and building simple accessories out of what you already have to create clean lines and form. In some cases, we’ll recommend purchases as valuable investments in the staging process.

Emotional Connection Points - Creating the “Wow Factor”

This is the fun part and is a huge focus of our positioning strategy. We’ll show you how to build in these subtleties in order to make the buyers subconsciously desire to live here and “feel home.” The “emotional connection points” are where marketing strategy really comes in to play.