Photo-Ready Home Staging Leads to Competing Offers

by Susan AtwellHome Staging Success Stories

A Baldwin Place, NY, home goes from not-ready to photo-ready in just five hours with the help of professional home staging.

Home seller Carlyle is inspired to call AtWell Staged Home after reading Everything I Know About Home Staging I Learned From My Mother in The Somers Record.

Does Carlyle have to stage her home? No. No one ever has to stage his/her home. But home sellers who want to make a great first impression, sell quickly, and get top dollar, will do whatever it takes to make their home show its best. In this case, Carlyle knows that the fastest and most effective way to accomplish this is with the help of a professional home stager. She is 100% on board even if her ex needs to see it to believe it.

With only one day to stage, Carlyle’s project requires an unconventional approach. AtWell Staged Home thrives on this type of creative challenge, working hard to accommodate both our client’s budgets and timetables.

Normally, it’s not an issue to stage an occupied home in a single visit, but there’s just one problem—the living room is basically empty. And since this is the first room potential buyers will see upon entering the home, we’ll have to rent some furniture.

Technology to the rescue. A phone call leads to a plan, and Carlyle texts me photos of the interior. I use these photos to help pick out budget-friendly rental items that will coordinate with the home’s style. We have only one day to stage the home, so the furniture must arrive during that window of time.

Dressed to work, together Carlyle and I roll up our sleeves and have this 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath, 2,660-square-foot Colonial photo-ready in just 5 hours.

Here’s what Carlyle says about the staging day and final outcome:

“Thank you so much!!! After our staging day I was literally exhausted and couldn’t move. Even my ex agreed that it was so worth every penny; he definitely noticed the difference the staging made. My agent was also thrilled—and speechless—when she saw the incredible one-day transformation. I’m excited to say that we got a full-price offer the day the home was listed. We then received a second offer a week later for 11k over asking. OMG! So thank you again so much. I can’t thank you enough and will highly recommend you to everyone I know.”

Carlyle P.

Baldwin Place, NY

Not only is her agent speechless when she sees the transformation, she is so thrilled that she offers to pay for part of the home-staging investment.

For less than a 1k investment, the final sale price lands at 750k, 11k over asking, with two buyer’s competing for this property. The kind of results that every home seller and Realtor dreams of!

Carlyle and I have a great time staging this house and work so well together that she hires AtWell Staged Home to help her move into her new home.

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