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NMMR: Need Selling Advice - Room Related
This is mildly MM as it's related to my parents selling their home and trying to get the best deal possible. My question is about staging...read on...
My parents live in an outstanding school district and they have a SFH, two story colonial, 4 bed, 2.5 bath, 2 car attached garage that they built in 1984 with a developer. It's a private lot, less than one acre. It's immaculately clean and very neutral walls and décor. The roof, windows, mechanicals, and carpet have all be replaced within the past few years. The kitchen is updated and has Corian countertops, which are middle of the road for their neighborhood. Other than these items, it's a pretty "normal" house. The one HUGE drawback is that they have NO deck or patio (all the homes in the neighborhood have at least one of these, sometimes both). So staging is huge for them. My mom understands this and my dad does a bit but basically has the attitude of "buyers can visualize whatever they want."
Another interesting feature of the home is that it has a set of French doors between the family and living rooms.
Currently, my parents have their family room sofa in front of these doors, which renders the doors as a walkway between the rooms, useless. The doors are not blocked from the living room, though.
Due to staging, AND if the dimensions will allow it, I have advised my parents to move their family room sofa to another spot in the room. Doing this would open up the French doors so they can actually be used as a walk-through between the rooms.
Here's my question: If you were a prospective buyer looking at this home and the French doors were blocked by a sofa, would you be able to see past this, noting that you could move the sofa elsewhere? Or, would this be a drawback for you not being able to visualize that the sofa could be moved? Would you assume that the sofa "had" to go in that space - making the doors useless?
They need to do whatever they can to make their home "special" since they are without a deck/patio. As a side note: I advised them to get this done, but due to time constraints and money they have, but don't want to spend, they are not going to do this project. I disagree, but that's another matter.
So: Move the sofa, if possible with dimensions, or leave it in front of doors?
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I would have a realtor come and look at the house and give staging advice - or view the photos on line of similar house listings. Less furniture than you would generally live with is a better approach when staging your home.
Limit items on the wall, remove personal photos.
Paint walls and trim if needed.
Lack of deck.patio will not keep most people from buying IF the inside is to their liking.
Good luck.
People in general cannot visualize and most are not looking for projects.to do after moving in.
We had that problem when selling my grandparents house...and my grandparents were hard-heads about it all. I truly think they got less money just because they wouldn't stage anything to make it look better to a buyer.