Soft Furnishings – Houses To Impress http://www.housestoimpress.com.au Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:36:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Create the right mindset before you sell http://www.housestoimpress.com.au/create-the-right-mindset-before-you-sell/ http://www.housestoimpress.com.au/create-the-right-mindset-before-you-sell/#respond Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:19:29 +0000 http://www.housestoimpress.com.au/?p=1078 I do a lot of speaking engagements these days about Selling Homes for Profit using Cosmetic Makeovers and Home Staging.  I always demonstrate my proven results with a PowerPoint presentation showing some of our clients before and after photos and generally my audience are always amazed about the huge returns we make our clients.

The first step to successful Home Staging is to cultivate the right mindset. As a Home Seller, you are about to cash in on one your most valuable assets – your home, and it is imperative that you start thinking of your house as an investment your are selling, rather than your family home.

If someone asked you for $5000 and gave you back $50,000 in two months time, would you do it?? Your return on investment would be a whopping 1000%. Unbelievable you may say. Well we can guarantee you that is typical of the returns we achieve for our clients.

Case Study:

We recently worked with a client whose house was tenanted prior to going on the market. It was a very large 5 bedroom home located 7 km from the city in one of the best streets in the suburb.  Once the tenants moved out, it was obvious that there were a few minor repairs that needed to be addressed which required the services of a general handyman for about 3 days. He repaired some small cracks in a few walls and repainted those areas as well as doing a general yard tidy up.  Of course we never recommend showing an empty house so the whole property was staged with furniture and soft furnishings and hired pot plants to jazz up the outdoors.

Our client’s investment was $5000. The house was appraised by the agent prior to the makeover at $615,000.  During the 3 week marketing campaign prior to auction there were large amounts of people that viewed the property and one keen buyer put in an offer for $640,000.  By auction day there was definitely a buyer frenzy with over 30 people cramming the family room where the auction took place.

The house sold for $690,000!! – An increase from the appraised value of $75,000. That is a 1500% Return on Investment. What was also extraordinary was the auction clearance rate in May 2010 in Adelaide was very low at 40% and a lot of properties were failing to sell on Auction Day.  Naturally our client was absolutely delighted with the results.

So if you are thinking of selling your home I recommend you change your mindset and go for Gold! You deserve to make Top Dollar for your biggest investment.

See some of the photos of the property below

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Selling Your Home http://www.housestoimpress.com.au/selling-your-home/ http://www.housestoimpress.com.au/selling-your-home/#respond Fri, 21 May 2010 08:31:12 +0000 http://housestoimpress.com/?p=385 Does the Thought of Selling Your Home Overwhelm You?

  • Are you afraid of the process because you are not sure how it works from start to finish?
  • Do you fear that you’ll sell for far less than your house is worth, or be unable to sell at all?
  • Would you like to know how to make money when you sell?
  • Would you like to increase the value of your home by $10,000 or more in one weekend?


Sound impossible? – well we helped one of our interstate clients transform their home in one weekend and they made $15,000 more than their previous offers!

After an unsuccessful auction campaign where no one showed up they started getting offers $20,000 below their asking price.

How did they do it and how much did it cost?

Following the recommendations in our Sold For Top Dollar Transformation Package™

  • They changed the layout of furniture in some of the bedrooms
  • Converted  an office into a home theatre room
  • Converted one of the six bedrooms into an office
  • Added some soft furnishings

All this was done using their existing furniture! Oh and I forgot the cost ………..$150.00!

They turned $150 into $15,000 in one weekend!

"Most home owners don’t realise that they only need to spend pennies to make thousands of dollars more when they sell."

Would you like to sell your home for much more than you ever imagined?

Our new online consult enables us to work with clients all over Australia to get amazing results like the story above.  We didn’t meet our client in person; in fact we never left our office! Our unique step by step system and questionnaire supported by photos of your property enables us to tailor make an action plan to transform your home from For Sale to SOLD!

Click here to find out more about our

Sold For Top Dollar Transformation Package™.

 

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