| The most important factor in making the first | | | | this is excluding another 142 homes listed under |
| impression on a prospective buyer of a home is | | | | "distress sale" properties of foreclosure in Suffolk city. |
| described in two words - "Curb Appeal". | | | | As you know, the present housing markets of the US |
| Unquestionably a buyer is attracted by the outside look | | | | country are plagued by the foreclosure crisis and |
| of the building, to look inside later. More than 70 to 80% | | | | home selling has become a daunting experience, |
| of prospects, either driving in person through your | | | | amidst the present competition. |
| street or flipping the pages of photos of a web-page, | | | | So what you do? It goes without saying that if you |
| get hooked by the "Curb Appeal" of a home for sale | | | | want your home to compete against the ones already |
| and get the itching to look in further. | | | | listed and waiting for buyers, you have to adopt a |
| It follows therefore, however beautiful, spacious, | | | | prudent strategy of staging your home appropriately, |
| colored pleasingly, clutter-free, and inviting your interior | | | | with the help of an accredited Home Staging |
| of the home might be, if you fail to add the most | | | | professional. |
| necessitated "Curb Appeal", you tend to lose that | | | | By experience of staging many homes like yours in |
| prospective buyer. That said, mere "Curb Appeal" | | | | the past and handling assorted home buyers with |
| alone would not be enough to make the buyer decide | | | | different tastes, the Home Staging professional knows |
| on buying the home. The first attraction should be | | | | how to make your home gets that all-important "Curb |
| sustained further, when the buyer goes round the | | | | Appeal"; decorate the interior room by room; clear the |
| home and all the other factors explained above, | | | | clutter and unwanted personal paraphernalia; add pep |
| strengthen the overall satisfaction. | | | | to the whole look of the interior by magnifying the |
| It is here the help of a professional Home Staging | | | | existing advantages and reducing, if not totally |
| service comes into the picture. Imagine the situation | | | | eliminating, the disadvantages of your home, from the |
| that you are a home seller in any of the housing | | | | view point of the prospective buyer. |
| markets of US - for instance Suffolk, Virginia. Suffolk is | | | | What is that you are going to achieve? Well - actually |
| an independent city located in the Hampton Roads | | | | a lot - before listing the home for sale, you stage your |
| metropolitan area of the Commonwealth of Virginia. | | | | home as explained above; make your home stand out |
| It is the largest of the Seven Cities of Hampton Roads | | | | from the crowd and competition; fix the asking price in |
| by area and the largest independent city in land-area in | | | | consultation with your selling agent, who will be very |
| the entire Commonwealth. As per 2007 estimates, | | | | happy to take up the assignment as he gets a |
| Suffolk has a population of 81,332, the smallest | | | | "perfect home" for sale with no problem in finding a |
| population of all the seven cities. | | | | buyer; sell your home faster; and count the currency of |
| As on date there are 1,182 homes listed for sale and | | | | sale proceeds to the envy of your neighbors. |