We went to a house tour the other week and came away thinking the house was tiny, and it felt cramped. The joke? The house is twice the size of our current home, has better finishings, and should have showed like something out of Architectural Digest! The homeowners had clearly moved out all their personal pictures, little trinkets, and the like, which was nice…but there were off-season decorating items in a corner in the basement, dusty bar glasses, off-season jackets, footwear, all the little things that somehow, a potential buyer picks up on.
When selling your home, and showing it to potential buyers, it’s not just your personal pictures you need to tuck away. You need to help the potential buyer forget that another actual human being lives in your home. If it’s winter, you shouldn’t have rain boots in the front hall, if it’s summer, your snowshoes should be elsewhere, once Halloween is over, put the decorations away. Here are some tips for staging your home to sell.
Your Temporary Closet
A small self-storage unit is either 5x7 or 5x10. This is comparable to the size of a large closet. And probably, if you looked around your home, you have a large closet worth of “stuff” that doesn’t belong in your home right now. Set up a temporary closet rack, grab some plastic totes, and put that stuff in to a small self-storage unit. You don’t even have to be that organized about it because you’re selling your home, you’ll need that stuff for the next season, and you can empty your storage unit as soon as you move. This will help you better showcase your home, and it’s real space…not your stuff, which can be distracting to others.
Your Second Realtor
A small storage locker rental is relatively inexpensive, but it could massively increase your home sale. It’s like having a second realtor out there telling people your home is the best in the area and should attract multiple offers. For the small cost, and small effort, you’re putting a lot of dollars into your pocket, which you can use for your next home purchase.
Month-to-Month
Storage Solutions rents all its storage units on a monthly basis, which means you get the storage you need, when you need it. Your small storage rental can be as temporary or permanent as you need. It’s that simple and straightforward.
Access
Access to your unit is with very extended hours. Why does this matter? Well, when you’re staging your home, you run tight on time. It’s hard working all day and than have to look at your house objectively and get it picture perfect. Which is why it’s nice that you can do a quick run over to your storage unit after dinner and be in and out in 10 minutes.
Secure
Storage Solutions has cameras on every aisle. Our competitors prefer to cut this cost and put cameras only at the doors, which is ok because they are still getting people at entry points. But we like to understand where someone went after they came into our facility. And we review our camera footage, do in-person walk-arounds, and pay attention to people’s entry and exit patterns.
We are a small, family-owned business. We care about our customers and we personally manage our own locations. If you have questions about our Milton Self-Storage or Woodstock self-storage facilities or our small self-storage units for rent, contact us! You can virtually tour our self storage facilities to see different unit sizes with our videos, sign-up for your self-storage unit online right from our website and get immediate access, and even pay your rent online, or sign up for automatic payments.
We keep self-storage simple so you can get on with life…and sell your home!
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