AHS Course Shows You How To Quickly Stage a House In 5 Steps

The course gives you a step-by-step process for staging a house.  It takes you from the outside and moves you through the house room by room.  Each room is covered with a comprehensive checklist so everything is easy to follow. You will be able to give a homeowner a complete action plan to get their home staged to sell fast.

The AHS course goes through a logical 5-step sequence for staging a home both inside and out with each step broken down for every room. You’ll learn the do’s and don’ts plus the best way to deal with the client to avoid the potential for hurt feelings... 

Step 1 – De-Cluttering

This is the single most important action you can take in preparing the home for sale.  Your goal is to remove as much visible clutter and turn disorder into order.  This includes removing any excess and unnecessary furniture so the rooms look bigger. 

Guiding your client through the de-cluttering process and identifying what items should be removed is a delicate situation and one that you need to handle with great sensitivity.  The AHS course teaches you exactly what to do for each room and how to best handle the client during the process.

Step 2 – De-personalize

You will learn why it’s important to remove everything that provides any information about who lives in the house. That means removing all photo frames, clearing off all information from notice boards, kid’s schedules, invitations and photographs, religious symbols and even prescription drugs.

These items only act as distractions for the house hunter and you don’t want to lose the naturally curious prospective buyer to a display of family photographs.  And perhaps more importantly, you don’t want to expose your seller’s personal information for any potential illegal use.

Step 3 – Repair

The AHS course will show you how to find problems with a listing that need repair. The kind of repairs we are referring to are what the eye can see…not major electrical or plumbing issues.  We’re talking about leaky faucets, broken tiles, damaged hardware, etc.

A home that is in a good state of repair indicates to potential buyers that the house has been well maintained and is not hiding something that will cost them down the road.  It’s important that you learn how to take each room step-by-step and look for items that need repair.  The AHS course gives you easy to follow checklists that make this step a no-brainer.

Step 4 – Cleaning

The rule here is clean and then clean some more!  This is without a doubt most critical to your success.  Consider the impact to a potential buyer that gets the impression they will have to spend days and days cleaning a dirty home before they can even unpack a single box.  Dirt puts buyers off faster than anything!

So what's the correct way to make sure this happens?  The AHS course teaches you several ways to address this step with your client.  The most important thing to remember is to be delicate.  It’s very easy to offend your client if this is handled badly.

Step 5 - Decorating

Decorating is accomplished mainly from repositioning the existing furniture, revamping certain pieces, adding accent pillows, replacing or adding art, and maybe incorporating other accessories. The AHS course will show you exactly how to do this and also give you resources that you can use if you need to add some items.

The hardest part about decorating is creating symmetry.  The AHS course gives you several easy to learn strategies to ensure that every room is decorated correctly.