{"id":8693,"date":"2020-04-21T18:47:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T18:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/householdrealestate.com\/?p=8693"},"modified":"2023-12-02T11:50:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T11:50:05","slug":"why-de-personalizing-your-home-sells-it-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/householdrealestate.com\/a\/charliecook\/blog\/uncategorized\/why-de-personalizing-your-home-sells-it-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Why De-Personalizing Your Home Sells It Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why De-Personalizing Your Home Sells It Faster<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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April 13, 2017<\/span>\u00a0\/\u00a0<\/span>Selling Your Home<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"ThinkThe most important step of\u00a0staging a home<\/a>\u00a0for sale is de-personalizing it. This has the greatest effect on making it more appealing to home buyers.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s nice to think that we can put our homes on the market as-is and assume home buyers will see past our personalized\u00a0d\u00e9cor<\/a>, family photographs, and\u00a0clutter<\/a>, that\u2019s simply not the case with most home buyers, especially in the competitive real estate market of today.<\/p>\n

To give your home its best chance at appealing to the largest number of home buyers, de-personalizing it is key.<\/p>\n

Here are five reasons why you should de-personalize your home before putting it on the market.<\/p>\n

Why You Should De-Personalize Your Home for the Market<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It shows your home in its best light<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A neutral\u00a0color<\/a>\u00a0palette and de-personalized d\u00e9cor allows the architectural features of a home to stand out. Nothing is distracting from them, so buyers can fully appreciate its special features and notice more permanent fixtures rather than cosmetic details.<\/p>\n

It also creates a clean, fresh atmosphere that makes homes feel more open, spacious, and inviting. Your home will look newer and feel more polished when it is stripped down to neutral, but welcoming d\u00e9cor.<\/p>\n

It keeps buyers focused<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Most home buyers get distracted by personalized d\u00e9cor. Not only do they get stressed over how much work they\u2019re going to have to do to change it all and how much money it could all cost, but it can also negatively affect how they feel about the home itself. Even though d\u00e9cor is an easy thing to change, a lot of buyers get caught up in their feelings about how much they dislike it and can\u2019t separate it from the bones of the home. They can miss positive features because they are so busy looking at the d\u00e9cor.<\/p>\n

Personal touches like family photos can also be very distracting. For some buyers, it is an uncomfortable reminder that they are walking through a stranger\u2019s home and makes them feel awkward through the rest of the tour. Don\u2019t let them get distracted by your life in the home.<\/p>\n

It helps buyers to imagine their own d\u00e9cor<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A neutral palette is like a blank canvas to buyers. Instead of getting caught up in their opinion of another person\u2019s taste, they are free to imagine their own d\u00e9cor in its place without distractions. This helps them build an attachment to the home. If you can capture their imagination, that\u2019s half the battle.<\/p>\n

It increases the perceived value<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Studies have shown that buyers perceive de-personalized homes as being worth more than ones that are not. That\u2019s because they appear\u00a0cleaner<\/a>, newer, and better maintained.<\/p>\n

It sets your home apart from the competition<\/strong><\/h4>\n

There are still plenty of sellers who have not caught on yet to the value of home staging, so you have a leg up on the competition when you stage your home for sale. A neutral, de-personalized home shows better in\u00a0MLS photos<\/a>\u00a0and in person, instantly setting yours apart from the competition that has brightly colored walls, cluttered surfaces, and signs of the family who lives there all over it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why De-Personalizing Your Home Sells It Faster April 13, 2017\u00a0\/\u00a0Selling Your Home The most important step of\u00a0staging a home\u00a0for sale is de-personalizing it. This has the greatest effect on making it more appealing to home buyers. While it\u2019s nice to think that we can put our homes on the market as-is and assume home buyers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/householdrealestate.com\/a\/charliecook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/householdrealestate.com\/a\/charliecook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/householdrealestate.com\/a\/charliecook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/householdrealestate.com\/a\/charliecook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/householdrealestate.com\/a\/charliecook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/householdrealestate.com\/a\/charliecook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48601,"href":"https:\/\/householdrealestate.com\/a\/charliecook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions\/48601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/householdrealestate.com\/a\/charliecook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/householdrealestate.com\/a\/charliecook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/householdrealestate.com\/a\/charliecook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}