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We have a
New Nester moving in next door
I
mentioned yesterday that we are about to get new neighbours. They took possession of the house yesterday.
The folk
that moved out worked hard to get the house ready for sale.
For weeks
I watched my friend Larry, the owner, caring in lumber and drywall to make the
house ready for the sale. Getting it all
spruced up was his main task. I had joked with him that the house was going to
look so good that he would change his mind and not sell the place.
What he
was doing was called “staging the house”.
He was making everything look good so that the potential buyer would
snap up the great deal that they were offering.
When I
first heard of “staging” from my friend Debbie, who did this kind of work for
clients, I wondered where I had been all these years. Duh!?
That was in 2008 when she first told me what was involved.
With “staging”
there are different levels. One is to make sure that the walls are painted
freshly, just the right amount of pictures are hanging on the walls and you
also have a certain amount furniture in your home.
If you
have too many pictures on the wall and too much furniture in the house it will
turn people off… and the possible sale will not happen.
So to “stage
a house” you might need to rent a Storage Unit for the extra furniture and
pictures to unclutter the house.
When
Debbie explained that to me I must have looked at her like she had three heads. I exclaimed, “Why would anyone do that? They will tear the place apart after they buy
it anyway!!!”
But oddly
enough the “staging” does work.
It worked
for my friends Larry and Linda…and their house sold in a short few days. It must have been all of Larry’s hard work to
get it looking so good.
Yesterday…
As I was
working at home I heard the noise next door.
It was the sound of a truck backing into the driveway. You know a rather large truck… likely the
moving van bringing their furniture and earthly belongings. I didn’t want to
look anxious and appear to be too snoopy… so I didn’t jump up to go see.
After a
few minutes the sounds next door were of rumbling, metal against metal and then
a clunk. That was not the sound of a
moving van at all. And there were no
excited voices that usually accompany the unloading of a van.
Then I
yielded to my temptation to take a look.
Oh WOW!
There in
the driveway of the just purchased house was a bright coloured green bin that
has “Bin there Dump that” emblazoned on the side. It was a small sized dumpster that was about
to receive some of the contents of the house.
Hokey
Mokey! Larry’s hard work was going to go
to the Dump soon.
Before
moving in the young couple are going to do some renovations apparently and the place
will not be what it was when they bought it.
I smiled.
I remembered my shock to what Debbie had told me about “staging” a house… and
my comment to her. I had been right. Yet she likely had been right too.
The place
has to look clean. Check. The place should not be cluttered.
Check. And the place, if it looks like
someone else’s – should look like it can be changed. Check. Check. Check.
The new
lady coming is a “nester”. They have no kids that we can see. They are likely planning for a family and
need to prepare the place for what will come. Ahhah! That is it!!
She wants to build her own nest and not live in someone else’s!!!!
I now
look at our own place. Oh Boy!
I have
laid down brand new hardwood flooring in two thirds of the house. The other two
thirds is covered with brand new tile in the kitchen and the bathroom. The only thing that we didn’t do was the
kitchen cupboards… because with some special paint they look almost brand
new. On top of that the basement was
completely renovated last year.
There is
nothing left to do. I am sure of it.
But if we
sold it now… some young lady would have her man move a dumpster into the
driveway and begin building her new nest.
Tiles would come up because they are not the right colour. The walls would be painted again and the
windows likely would be changed.
And I
know that some younger man will do it all for her… because she wants the nest
to be just so.
Oh
boy!!!!
I can’t
wait to meet the new couple coming next door.
~
Murray Lincoln ~
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