[5-DayForum] leave furniture in 1/2 home or not?

[Bill Effros]

Nancy,

It really doesn't matter.  Do what's easiest for you.  The real buyers 
know exactly what they're looking at.  All of this "home staging" stuff 
is malarkey.  It's for brokers trying to find excuses for why they can't 
sell your home for the amount they said they could sell it for.

At the initial offering price brokers are lucky to find a single 
potential buyer.  They want that buyer to think your home is the best 
value on the market at a ridiculously inflated price which no one else 
will pay.  This ploy rarely works.  Then you lower the price and 
somebody buys it for what it's worth.  The buyer would have paid the 
exact same price without any staging.

When you run a 5-Day Sale you bring in 25 to 100 buyers only three of 
whom are ready willing and able to pay the current market price.  They 
know exactly what your home is worth -- with and without staging.  This 
is equally true of selling empty homes vs. homes with furniture.  
Everybody's got a theory, but when push comes to shove it doesn't seem 
to make any difference.

Bill Effros

Nancy Davidson wrote:
> My 5-day sale will be in two weeks. After reading
> through MANY questions and reading the book, I have a
> question:
>
> Our home has a Mother-In-Law apartment (took the
> downstairs mstr plus other room); anyway, the main
> part of the house is empty of furniture as we are
> living in the MIL apt. right now.  After taking
> furniture out today to shampoo carpets, I noticed it
> looks much bigger without any furniture, and since the
> rest of the home doesn't have any, would it be better
> to have COMPLETE house vacant? or leave our 'part'
> with furniture? I'll be looking for some ideas!!
> Thanks! -Nancy
>
>
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