Turning around a distressed home, and placing it on the market for rent or sale may be your specialty. Your turn around time to have your house tenant ready may be a few weeks. Your years of experience have created a no frills improvement plan. This plan includes fresh white walls, neutral carpeting, and freshly mowed grass. Are your rental homes sitting longer without renters? Here are three quick ways you can use home staging tips to secure tenants for your rental home.
Many rental homes are in neighborhoods with hard-working people. These people may not be at a place in their lives where they are ready to purchase a home, but they can comfortably afford to pay your premium rental price. Your goal should be to create a nice modern palette for your tenants to imagine how their furniture and personal belongings will look in your rental home.
Use your budget to determine how much home staging you can comfortably afford. There may a local home stagger who can lease furniture and accessories for your home showings. You also could obtain inexpensive furniture from scratch and dent sales, storage rental auctions, and craigslist. These same pieces of furniture could be rotated every time one of your rental homes becomes available.
Provide your tenants with a nice modern color pallet. No one wants to rent a home with different outdated colors of wallpaper in every room. What are the wall treatments in the house saying to your tenant? Outdated wall treatments may feel like immediate work, to your future tenant.
Always paint your walls with a neutral color paint. White walls can seem cold. Your tenant may not want to sign a year-long lease in a home that has white walls.They immediately may want to paint, or find a home that is similar in price but already painted. Avoid flat paint. Flat paint is very hard to clean, looks dull, and over time will show more wear and tear on your walls. If you choose flat paint, your tenant may be tempted to paint over your flat-painted white walls in an undesirable color. Avoid these problems and choose a nice modern neutral color to paint your entire house.
Outdoor living areas are especially important for smaller homes. Think about what you can do that is inexpensive to create an inviting outdoor space. This area does not have to be large. A small table with a few chairs would be a perfect retreat for a young couple to enjoy a cocktail after the children have gone to bed. Or this could be a space for adults to sit while the children enjoy the outdoors.
If hiring a home stager is not in your budget, educate yourself. Purchase books, and view home improvement television shows. Watch home staging dvd's that give step by step instructions. These tips could help your home to stay vacant for days or weeks, instead of months. If you can not figure out why your home is not renting, make sure the price is right for the neighborhood and work on home staging within your budget.
