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4 Reasons Why You Should Hire a Pro to Stage Your Omaha Home

by Nancy Heim-berg

Are you selling your Omaha home and thinking about staging your home? Staging your home is worth paying for. Realtors highly recommend it to increase the chances of selling. While it's an extra cost, it helps make a positive impression on potential buyers and showcases the full potential of your property. Professional staging can highlight the best features, create a welcoming atmosphere, and allow buyers to envision themselves living in the space. Ultimately, staging can lead to a quicker sale and potentially higher offers, making it a worthwhile investment.

1. First Impressions Are Everything

When potential buyers enter a chaotic and disorganized home, they can quickly become disinterested. Comparing a messy property to a clean one, it's clear which one they will prefer. Professional staging can transform a space and create an inviting atmosphere.

Home staging is a transformative process that enhances your property's appeal. It is akin to a professional photoshoot, accentuating its best features. In a competitive market, first impressions are crucial when selling a home. By staging your property, you can capture buyers' attention and increase the likelihood of receiving offers.

2. Accelerate the Sale

When your home remains unsold, it incurs ongoing expenses such as mortgage payments, utilities, and property taxes. However, staging your home can significantly expedite the selling process. On average, staged homes sell 30 times faster than those that are not staged. By utilizing staging, you can save weeks, or even months, of time. Selling your home quickly allows you to cease paying for household expenses and transition to the next phase sooner.

3. Larger Offers

Staging a home can lead to higher offers from buyers, resulting in significant financial gain for sellers. It goes beyond superficial fixes and is an important aspect of marketing efforts.

Staging a home can have a significant impact on buyers. When a house is staged, it helps buyers visualize themselves living there, leading to a higher likelihood of them making a higher bid. The investment you make in staging could potentially result in a larger sale price. Whether your real estate agent covers the cost or you pay for it yourself, home staging is a worthwhile investment that should not be dismissed as just another expense.

4. Enable Buyers to See Themselves in Your Space

Home staging is a powerful tool that bridges the gap between different buyer preferences. It transforms a home into an inviting space that appeals to a wide range of potential buyers. By neutralizing unique tastes, staging creates a blank canvas that still exudes character. This allows buyers to envision themselves making lasting memories in the property.

Professional home stagers employ psychological tactics to create an inviting and appealing atmosphere. It goes beyond simply arranging furniture; home staging aims to establish a seamless flow that evokes a sense of excitement and possibility for potential buyers. By strategically placing items and creating a harmonious environment, home staging communicates the message, "Your future life here will be amazing."

Paying for Home Staging is Worth It

Selling a home can be an emotional and financial roller coaster. Fortunately, staging is a helpful tool for finding buyers. Staging acts as a safety harness, ensuring a smooth and quick sale process. The benefits of home staging make it a worthwhile investment when listing your home.

Have your home needs changed in the past year? Perhaps you’ve outgrown your present home, or need to downsize to a more suitable home. If you’re ready to make a move, let’s connect and talk about all the amazing opportunities that are available to you!

Stage Your Omaha Home for a More Profitable Sale!

by Nancy Heim-berg

Are you getting your home ready to sell in Omaha? If so, it’s a busy time for sure, with plenty of preparations to make. One of the things you need to really focus on though is making your home stand out in the Omaha real estate market. This is called staging. Many people may feel the need to hire a professional to make their home shine. There’s nothing at all wrong with that idea, but it can get expensive. You can save money by doing a few basic main tasks. And the best part is that you can save money and raise the potential of selling your home for more. Here’s what you can do.

De-Clutter & Clean

Who wants to buy a dirty home? Not many, so make sure you go through your house with a fine-tooth comb. Your home needs the deepest clean it’s ever had. Go room by room and clean from top to bottom. Then sort through all of your possessions and decide what really needs to stay for showings and what you can discard or put in storage. Doing this kills two birds with one stone. You not only raise the appeal of your home, but it will be easier to move when you sell. Keep in mind that this is no longer going to be your home. Buyers need to see it as their own, so make sure the slate is as clean as possible so that they can envision their own possessions in it.

Be Versatile

Sure, the pink kid’s room may have been cute once. But it may not appeal to everyone. The best thing with rooms is to make them more generic instead of making it seem like they need to be used for the purpose you used them for. You can paint the bedrooms a more gender-neutral color and take down posters and other personal items. If you have a room that you used for something specific, like a sewing room, you may want to turn it into a more general guest room with a desk or table for projects. Like we mentioned above, buyers need to see this home as their own and be able to see themselves living in it.

Curb Appeal

We all know the saying about first impressions. When it comes to selling a home, that saying rings true. What do people think when they drive by your home? Why not ask your neighbors or friends? The more ideas and input you can get, the better. The fact is that many times buyers will drive by a home before they even schedule a showing. You don’t want that, obviously, so make sure you make the outside of your home appeal to as many buyers as possible. You should make sure the yard is well cared for. Add a fresh coat of paint to the siding and trim. Polish or replace dull hardware. Clean the walkways and driveway. Also think about investing in new roofing if it’s showing its age.

Other things you can look at in your home are making sure your foyer is clean and clutter free, do a walk through to find areas to focus on, find ways to let in more light, cleaning the fridge and organize the cupboards.

Have your home needs changed in the past year? Perhaps you’ve outgrown your present home, or need to downsize to a more suitable home. If you’re ready to make a move, let’s connect and talk about all the amazing opportunities that are available to you!

Tips On How To Stage Your Home On A Budget

by Nancy Heim-berg

If you are thinking of selling your home, from time to time you may catch yourself making mental notes of areas that need repair, carpets that need cleaning and clutter that needs to be sorted and donated/thrown out. Many home owners may not realize the extent of work that needs to be done on their home before it is ready to be put on the market and shown to potential buyers. If you are wondering where to start in the home staging process, and want to do it without breaking the bank, then today’s blog post is for you. There are a few golden rules for you to keep in mind as you prepare and stage your home for potential buyers, and we have listed them below for you to check out. Let’s jump right in!

The first rule we are going to talk about is de-personalizing your home. What do we mean by that? Well, remember the large, framed family photo from three summers ago at Lake Tahoe that you have hanging in the living room? While it may bring you great joy as beautiful memories flood back to you when you look at it, it may not be as appealing to potential buyers who are looking at your home. You want your home to essentially be a blank canvas for buyers to picture themselves settling into. You want them to look at your kitchen and picture their Sunday dinners, your master bedroom as a cozy oasis for them to escape to and your family room as a central hub for gatherings. It will be hard for them to do that if all they see are reminders of how you have made the house yours and all the wonderful time you have spent there. So, with that being said, it is important to remove personal items that you have around your home when staging to sell. 

The next tip we have for you is to de-clutter the space. There is no better way for potential home buyers to picture a blank canvas than for them to see clean and neat spaces. You may even want to think about renting a storage unit if there are items that you think do not add to the space, but that you aren’t quite ready to part with yet. This can include items such as bulky furniture, artwork, kids toys, holiday decorations and clothing that makes your closet look too packed, thus making it appear smaller. De-cluttering will maximize the space in your home, ensuring that potential buyers see the real and full potential of the house. Our next tip is arguably the simplest, and that is to clean/sanitize your home. No one likes a dirty home and you only have one chance to make a first impression on buyers. Whether you hire on a company or choose to grab the rubber gloves and tackle the cleaning yourself, it will be the best time/money you could spend when it comes to staging your home to sell. 

Our last tip for you is to neutralize your home. It is no secret that color can make or break how people view a particular space. And while you may think that bright pink accent wall does wonders for the aesthetic of the home, potential buyers may think otherwise. All they will see is money, time and potential frustration on a home improvement project. One of the most inexpensive ways to change the look and feel of a home is to paint, and we can assure you that updating the space with calming and neutral colors will make a world of difference for buyers. We hope these tips and tricks will help you when it comes to staging your home to sell, and take off some of the stress and guess work on where to start! 

Should you Stage your Omaha Home for Sale?

by Nancy Heim-berg

Are you considering putting your Omaha area home on the market?  If the answer is YES, hiring a professional Home Stager is an added boost!  

Home Staging increases your home's offered price by 17% (on average) and allows it to sell 87% faster than unstaged homes! 

Home Stagers are experts in the art of illusion.  That's right, just like David Copperfield!  They know how to highlight your homes best attributes and make the less attractive traits far less noticeable.


To learn more about Home Selling and Home Staging, contact the Heim-Berg Team!

Home Staging

by Nancy Heim-berg

In any kind of market, whether slow or hopping, it is vitally important to show your house at its best. Home staging won't necessarily get a seller a better price, but it just might generate a faster sale. Staging the property means creating a great first impression and helping the buyer to envision it as "home". Here is how you can make some big changes, with little or no investment, in order to make your house stand out from the rest:

Curb appeal is important!

  1. Take a look at the outside of the house from a distance. Look carefully for unsightly issues - from weeds to spider webs. Make sure all dirt and debris are swept or washed away. Put bicycles, tools and toys in the garage and out of sight.
  2. Manicure the lawn. Make sure all the edges are clipped cleanly. Trim all hedges.
  3. Use plants to brighten the environment. Flats of bedding flowers are an inexpensive way to add color to a garden. Even in winter, evergreens in urns can create a welcoming appeal at the front door.
  4. If painting the exterior is out of the question, a good power wash will make a dramatic change to the outside walls. Don't neglect doors and windows.
  5. Buy a new welcome mat, and polish doorknobs and hardware.

Move to the inside

  1. Eliminate personal items. Looking at someone else's family photos on the wall won’t help make the buyer feel welcome. Get a jump on packing by putting all your personal effects away.
  2. Clear the kitchen. Getting rid of all the clutter will make the kitchen appear larger and brighter. Countertops should be clear and sparkling.
  3. Clear the bathroom. Use a basket, and place all necessary personal items that normally reside in the open, under the sink. Make sure towels are clean and fresh.
  4. Minimize furniture to make rooms feel less crowded. Move unnecessary items to storage to create an airy feeling in each room.
  5. Patch and paint the walls. Nail holes from all the photos that used to reside there are not attractive, and a fresh coat of neutral paint will make the entire house look newer.
  6. Clean everything until the house sparkles. Make sure there are no unpleasant odors. Air fresheners for air filters will waft pleasant smells throughout the house with no visible source.

Home staging is very much like dressing well for a job interview. Dressing well won't guarantee you land the job, but dressing poorly will definitely dampen your chances.

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