4 Ways to Make Your Vacant Lakeland Sandpiper Home For Sale Appealing

4 Ways to Make Your Vacant Lakeland Sandpiper Home For Sale Appealing

If you are selling a vacant Lakeland Sandpiper home, it has its benefits as well as challenges. For one, you don’t have to worry about negotiating move out versus move in dates since the buyers can move in any time after closing.

On the other hand, selling a vacant home has some drawbacks. When prospective buyers view photos of vacant homes online, they have a hard time visualizing how the room is uses, the size of the room, and the actual layout of the home.

Vacant homes also give buyers an impression that a home may have been on the market for so long because the owners have already moved or that there may be something wrong with the home and this may be the reason why some buyers might skip vacant homes. You may have a perfectly valid reason for moving like a job change, for example, but buyers wouldn’t have a way to know that.

Buyers usually make higher offers on furnished or occupied homes. Buyers who enter vacant homes struggle in visualizing their own stuff occupying the rooms.

There are ways to stage a vacant home to still make it appealing to buyers. Here are a few tips”

• Virtual Staging

For your online Lakeland Sandpiper home for sale’s photos, you could use computer-generated furnishings and accessories in the vacant rooms. There are some companies who offer virtual staging services  for a fee, but the catch is you have to disclose in advertising that the rooms in your photos have been virtually staged.

• Furniture Rental

There are companies who offer furniture rental packages, usually for 3 types of rooms (living room, dining room, and master bedroom), complete with accessories.

Before you select a furniture rental company, make sure to check out different companies and their terms since some companies will make you enter into a monthly lease agreement with a 3-month minimum.

• Consignment Furniture

You can go to a consignment furniture store and buy some inexpensive furniture to make the house look furnished. You could also offer them to your buyers upon purchase of the Lakeland Sandpiper home for sale. Note that you cannot add the cost of furniture to the sale price of your home and you are doing this purely as an incentive for buyers. This incentive makes your home more attractive especially to first-time home buyers who start with little or nothing.  

• Closeout Furniture

This is a similar idea to consignment furniture, but you are buying brand new furniture from the store. Some stores offer discounted floor samples at closeout prices. For a budget of $1,500, you may already be able to purchase living and dining room furniture. That would definitely cost you less than a price reduction on your home for sale.

Any of these 4 options can greatly enhance your vacant Lakeland Sandpiper home for sale and make it more appealing to prospective buyers. It is better to apply any of these options sooner rather than later so your home won’t stay on the market too long. For more home staging tips, visit  http://www.lakelandfloridaliving.com/.

Call me, Petra Norris, at (863) 619-6918 if you’re looking for a Lakeland Florida real estate agent with superior local knowledge, experience, professionalism, integrity, and personal service to help you sell or buy Lakeland Sandpiper homes for sale.
 

Petra Norris, REALTOR®…

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