A Guide to Moving to Fort Myers
Updated November 2022
Don’t let selling your old home hold you back from settling into your new M/I Home! If you want to sell your home quickly and for top dollar, staging is a great start.
What Is Staging a Home?
Staging is the process of presenting your home in the most appealing way to the market. Allowing families to visualize how they would live and how their furniture would fit into your home will make it more appealing!
Staging Tips for Selling Your Home
The staging process doesn’t have to be difficult or costly. Here are our top 5 home staging tips and tricks.
1. Draw Attention to Wide Open Spaces
De-clutter, de-clutter, de-clutter—we can’t say it enough! If you haven’t already moved into your new M/I Home, remove the knickknacks and junk to prioritize simplicity and make your current home look neat.
Rearrange furniture to make rooms appear larger and more inviting. If some pieces of furniture look worn, keep them in storage while staging your home to sell.
Organize bookshelves, coffee tables, desks, and more in order to clear up surfaces.
2. Fill Your Home With Fresh Aromas
Make sure your home not only looks inviting, but smells pleasant as well! Having a place that smells like fresh baked cookies, pie, cake or other sweet dessert can really make a house feel like a home.Be conscious of cooking or pet odors that may linger. Open your windows to allow for air circulation and add fresh flowers for that extra touch.
3. Maximize Natural Lighting During Open Houses
Good lighting makes homes look warm and inviting. Think about adding extra lamps to dark corners as well as replacing old bulbs.
Keep curtains and blinds open during the day to bring in as much natural light as possible.
Neutral colors on walls help a room look bigger and brighter; try light beige, as white walls can look a bit sterile.
You can even light the fireplace on a dreary day to brighten up a room.
4. Keep It Simple
- Don’t overcrowd living spaces with too much furniture
- Put away kitchen appliances that take up counter space
- Make sure your closets are tidy and clean
- Don’t over-decorate with too many pillows, blankets, and rugs
Remember: you’re trying to sell the house, not the stuff inside it!
5. Focus on the Details
Once you’ve completed the big changes to your home, concentrate on the little things that may have slipped through the cracks.
Replace broken bathroom tiles, check wall corners and edges for dings, make sure wallpaper isn’t torn, and check for dust.
Most importantly, spend the majority of your time cleaning! A clean home will always be more appealing than a dirty one.
Try to depersonalize your home so that buyers can picture themselves living there.
Finally, spruce up the front of your house with plants and flowers—you want to make the best first impression possible!
These 5 tips are a great way to stage your home for sale. Whether your house has been on the market for awhile, or you’re still living there, staging a home is a great way to entice buyers, and you can still stage your home if you’ve already moved into your new M/I Home!
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