Staging your home is one of the best ways to sell your home the fastest and for the most money. I’ve been to a few listing presentations where sellers told me that another realtor thought the house was good enough. Well, good enough is not what I want. I want your house to sell for full price and I want you to get on with your life fast. The person who will buy your house should feel as if they have just entered their new home. This is the feeling I’m looking for.

Here are some really good tips:

I have an approach that will work for every room in the house; you just have to go through it for each room. IMPORTANT: Look at each room from top to bottom, let’s start from the left and work our way to the right. Do not look at the room as a whole, you need to go through everything methodically. The technique should be the same for each room:

1- Blank Slate. I’m going to speak in Latin here, but what I want you to do is remove any object that isn’t a piece of furniture or an accessory. Let me see my kitchen and I’ll tell you what I can do here. From the top to the button: remove the bottles from the top of the refrigerator and the beautiful plant from the cabinet. Remove the magnet and drawing of my nieces from the refrigerator, plant on top of the counter. Take my personal photos off the wall. Remove knives, cutting board, plant, coffee pot, coffee cups, small oven, paper towel, wine bottle, cookies, and fruit basket from counters. Wow, I never realized I had that much.

When you remove things from counters or furniture, you may not know where to put them. You may need to package them. Make 3 boxes:

1. Pull
2.Storage
3. Sell.

You may also need to rent a storage unit by the time of publication. I don’t want your boxes in the garage. Many people look at the garage and if it’s messy, they can’t imagine where they can put their cars and how much space there is for them to do projects.

2- Clean and repair. I have granite in my kitchen and this is a great time to make it shine. Buy some good products and clean everything from the top to the button. Starting from the light fixtures to the top of the fridge (I’m too short to see it, but there may be some taller people coming to see my house). Pay special attention to the sink, I want it spotless, open the oven and clean it (some ovens clean themselves), open the fridge and throw out everything that is old and clean it. Have someone clean out the trash can and wash it down. I don’t want any odor coming from any part of your kitchen. Clean the floor. Fix leaky sinks, replace light bulbs that don’t work, and touch up paint if necessary. Don’t do big repairs, just small touches.

3- Give him back some love. Now that it’s empty and clean, there are a couple of pieces to put back together. Mainly flowers and plants and for the kitchen one (1) nice piece like a nice espresso machine. In the kitchen nothing happens in the cabinets.