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Benefits of Having Your Home Staged:

Curious as to the value your investment in home staging will potentially generate when hiring a professional home stager from Peachtree Home Staging?

Here is what the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Newspaper has to say about home staging and the proven home staging results home sellers have experienced with Peachtree Home Staging's services in Atlanta!

Atlanta Home Stager In The News!

See the following Peachtree Home Staging excerpts from a September 2008 Atlanta Journal Constitution article:

All the house can be a stage

Stagers can make a home more appealing to potential buyers.

By Mary Booth Thomas
For the Journal-Constitution

Saturday, September 13, 2008 - Peachtree Home Staging Excerpts

When Maj. Toby Moore and his wife, Susan, put their house in Peachtree City up for sale in May, they expected it to be on the market for quite a while.

Instead, they sold their home in a week-and-a-half and got full price.

Their secret: At the suggestion of their Realtor, Leigh Steele of Prudential Georgia Realty, they hired Karen Dembsky of Peachtree Home Staging to make their home more appealing to prospective buyers.

"Home staging is part of our Realtor's selling plan," Susan Moore said. "There never had been a house in our neighborhood that sold for that much. It definitely works."

Professional home stagers move furniture and minimize accessories to highlight a home's positive features and play down the negative.

Upon Dembsky's advice, Moore packed up family photos and her children's artwork and removed the shower curtain in one bathroom to show off the tile. "She rearranged things to make the house flow better and removed a lot of personal things to make it show better," Moore said.

Moore was so impressed she recommended Dembsky to her mother, Barbara Lovejoy, who sold her home in Alpharetta in less than a month.

Dembsky charges a flat fee for a two- to three-hour staging session with homeowners and an hourly rate if she has to come back.

Shelly Peacock was initially apprehensive when her Realtor suggested bringing in someone to stage her home in the Maple Shade community in Tyrone, where several other homes in the $650,000 range are also on the market.

"My vision was that someone was going to come home and criticize my style. That wasn't the case at all," she said. "Once I got over it, it's fabulous."

In the living room, Dembsky rearranged the furniture to open up the space and make it more interesting, Peacock said. Dembsky worked with the Peacocks to pack up 15 boxes of personal items and memorabilia, in addition to what Peacock had packed before Dembsky arrived.

"It frees up your life. Now, when the house is going to be shown, I don't have to run around and straighten up all the stuff I had before," Peacock said.

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The benefits of home staging become quite obvious when your staged home receives more than the average number of

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showings. The benefit of multiple showing then creates the ultimate benefits of reduced market time and a better than average purchase offer.

Here's an Atlanta area home that is an excellent example of how well a staged home can photograph. Once videos or exceptional photos of a staged home are placed on the Internet MLS property description; potential buyers want to tour the home. Potential buyers touring the home create potential buyers placing offers on the home! Click the image to the right to view a video tour of the property that sold within 12 days of it's listing date and sold for $30,000 more than any other home in the subdivision! Be sure to observe how well the home was staged, thanks to Karen Dembsky and Peachtree Homes Staging!

• Before a showing -- A staged home will generate multiple showings when properly photographed and displayed on the Internet. As many as 80% of potential buyers begin their search online and identify homes they would like their real estate agent to show them. • During the showing -- A staged home will show better than other listed homes. It provides the buyer a clear vision of the home’s functionality. It’s “move-in ready,” and has no distractions.

• After the showing – A staged home is remembered! Viewing home after home becomes tedious and exhausting for buyers. Often, buyers have time constraints, particularly if their current home is already under contract or they are faced with job relocation. Features of all the homes they have seen can become jumbled.

• Throughout the Showing Period – A staged home commonly sells more quickly than one that hasn’t been staged. Keeping your home in pristine condition day and day, showing after showing, is exhausting and stressful. Continuing mortgage payments while a house is on the market can be a burden. Staging your home will cost less than: - A price reduction on the sale. - The next mortgage payment during marketing. - A higher commission to attract real estate agents. - Providing an allowance to the buyer for upgrades. • When the offer comes in – A staged home often sells for a higher price than one that hasn’t been staged. Buyers are willing to pay more for a home that appears to be well maintained, tastefully arranged and functional for their needs.