As a home buyer you want to find the perfect home for you and your family.

Home staging can make a home very inviting to buyers and get them swept up in the thought of living there – it helps to draw the eye to the focal point of every room to draw out the beautiful features of a home. Staging is so important that The Heritage Home Team has a resident home stager that is available to work with every seller on their home.

That being said, buyers still need to be aware of the other issues that are important when house hunting – it’s not all sofa placement and pretty paint colors.

Buyers need to remember that there are other major aspects of a home that can make or break a deal, that are not as obvious – structural issues, plumbing, electrical, building codes just to name a few.

Home staging is not meant to ‘trick’ the buyers or ‘cover up’ any problems. It’s like cleaning for a big party; you’d never want guests over with toys all over the living room and laundry hanging. But buyers, especially first time home buyers, can get swept up into the beauty of a home and forget about all the other things.

Why is this important? By being able to pinpoint these issues early it helps in several ways:

• 1. It can keep the buyer from becoming too emotionally attached to a home that isn’t of good quality – possibly saving them thousands of dollars in repairs and maintenance (you might not thank us now but you will later).
• 2. The issues can be used in negotiation of the offer price if the issues are correctable.
• 3. It keeps the buyer from having to invest too much of their valuable time later in the home buying process to deal with the issues, inspection of the issues, and repair of the issues.

Our knowledge does not take the place of a licensed home inspection but it does make a world of difference in how quickly and painlessly you can find your next home.