Many home owners choose to sell on their own instead of working with a real estate agent and giving 5% or 6% of their selling price over in real estate commissions. These properties are known as FSBOs, an acronym for ‘For Sale by Owner.’
The very fact that they’ve chosen to sell without an agent tells you these types of clients are interested in making more money on their sale. Home staging is an excellent way for the owners of FSBO properties to maximize their selling price, as demonstrated in the following story about Staging Diva Graduate and Omaha home stager, Dolly Dewald.
Bedroom before home staging
After doing an initial home staging consultation for a busy couple with three young children who were selling their home without a real estate agent, Dolly was asked to stage the home for them.
The home owners spent weeks cleaning and painting their home. They had little in the way of furniture so Dolly helped them get set up with a furniture rental company and assisted in selecting furniture for 4 bedrooms and an entertainment room. Dolly went on to purchase bedding and accessories. The home took an entire day to stage.
Bedroom after staging
Each Sunday they held an open house and they ended up receiving multiple offers, not bad for a FSBO. The couple eventually sold for 96% of their asking price.
The clients were thrilled with the results and later told Dolly the buyer said her staging is what sold the house.
About her home staging training, Dolly writes, “My goal was to have a job I loved. The Staging Diva® Program gave me the structure and know-how to create a business and make it work. With Debra Gould’s help I now have an outlet for my creative juices and a job I love.”
Do you have a story like Dolly’s that proves home staging works? Just follow this link to share it with me and you can be featured in a post like this too!
Have any of you worked on FSBOs? Have they provided any special challenges or opportunities? Please share your thoughts and comments below.
Debra Gould, The Staging Diva®
President, Six Elements Inc. Home Staging
Debra Gould knows the key to success in business is in how you market it. She’s taught thousands of people around the globe how to make money using their natural creative talent as home stagers through the Staging Diva Home Staging Business Training Program.
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What a timely article. I have been researching the fsbo market. Thanks for the article; I think I will go ahead and look for ways to connect to these sellers.
Also enjoyed looking at Dolly’s profile. Nice before and afters!
I have just put my advertising on the FSBO website in my area.
Any advice on how to contact these people?
I tried to market to FSBO sellers when I first started my business, but I never had any luck when I approached them. I think they looked at me the same way they looked at realtors … “Just another person trying to get a chunk of my equity!” Unless a FSBO reaches out to me, it looks like I won’t have the opportunity to sell them on my service. I should get in front of those new FSBO specfic companys that help these sellers with MLS listings and closing tasks. Maybe my web link on their site would do the trick?
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