What is Home Staging?

Home staging is more than just moving your furniture around. Home staging is preparing a residence to sell quickly. The goal of home staging is to maximize a homes appeal to the highest number of potential buyers, thereby resulting in a faster sale for more money. Home staging focus's on improving a property's appeal and value by transforming it into a welcoming and attractive product.

History

Home staging has always been part of the homeowner's responsibility. Until recently it was often looked upon as simply keeping the grass cut and picking up dirty clothes. The seller's real estate agent would recommend certain specific actions if the owners were clueless about things that turn off potential buyers. However, the recent recession turned real estate into a buyer's market. Nowadays, sellers need to look for any advantage to make their property stand out and sell. That's where home staging comes in.

Value of Home Staging

Research shows that proper home staging can reduce a listing's time on market by 30% to 50%, and could increase the sale price by as much as 20% over an empty home or a home not properly staged.

Why Low Cost Movers

That's where Low Cost Movers comes in. We work with home owners, interior decorators and professional home stagers. We are regularly called upon to perform in-house moves to maximize a home's marketability and sales appeal.

We sometimes remove furniture and household goods from a house, town home or condominium and place it into storage to clear out clutter and create the illusion of more space in the customers home. Often, professional home stagers have an inventory of furniture that they lend their clients to get the property sold. Many home stagers rent furniture on a short term basis to make a home look lived in or to provide a certain "look".

Most successful home stagers have multiple staging assignments at the same time which requires that their inventory of staging furniture be on the move fairly often. Just as soon as the owner signs a contract of sale, the professional stager moves their home staging furniture to another location or back into storage, ready for the next assignment.

Al Low Cost Movers, we have the right equipment and properly trained crews to handle those assignments quickly and within budget. We work with many home staging professionals who employ us regularly to handle their home staging needs because we perform on time and within budget. We also work directly with home owners who need to do in-house moving or have us bring in rental furniture.

Call us for a free estimate and see why we are Chicagoland's most popular home staging mover.