Selling Your Home

Selling your home is a very emotional happening. First of all you have been happy surrounded by all those things that made you comfortable. The family pictures, the stuffed animal you won years ago and that plate you bought to celebrate the 100 anniversary of the town in which you were born

The seller comes in and dressed in expensive clothes and leaving her exotic car parked at the curb tell you that everything that labels you as a person must be hidden, gotten rid of or just made to disappear. This is because the buyer might think that this personal connection to the seller might ruin the sale. You stand and with mouth open take her advice and begin to mentally make the changes that she requests.

She smiles and appears to be your friend and with perfect language begins to take apart your history. It is impossible to interject as she has statistics to prove that staging is real and economically advantageous for the seller. I said little and Theresa and I agreed that she had good points and having a daughter who is a professional stager we would be able to verify the requests at Xmas when she visits for a holiday.

I had a long session with Theresa and decided to go along the requests but it involved long hours of work for we the seller. I began the work with a four day painting job and we cleared some junk (treasures) from our rooms. Selling your home is not a kind operation but similar to a ten day dose of the flue.