Make Your Property Shine Before You List—and Pay for It After
When selling your home, appearances matter. Prospective buyers want a home that they can see themselves in, so it really pays to create an environment that is appealing, welcoming, and stylish yet approachable. Staging is more than just furniture and throw pillows. Stagers work from the ground up, refinishing floors, improving landscaping, doing deep cleaning, or whatever it takes to make your home look picture-perfect.
If you want to put your best foot forward, but are concerned about the up-front costs, you can still make your place shine. My colleagues at RPM Mortgage have a program that can allow you to leverage the equity in your home for up to $50,000 in order to pay for staging, and the loan will then be paid off from the proceeds of the sale after it is completed.
This isn’t limited to cosmetic work; if you have structural work that needs to be done, you can use this loan for that as well. I always advise my sellers to remedy any flaws on the property that might deter buyers, if they can.
Anything you can do to make your home as turnkey as possible makes it more likely to attract the best buyers. For more information on this program, contact me or Monica di Perna (415.710.0354, mdiperna@rpm-mtg.com, also currently operating under temporary authority in Arizona, AZ #BK0942603) for more info.
(Compass has a similar program; learn more about Compass Concierge here.)
