Landscaping Staging
by admin - February 12th, 2010.Filed under: Uncategorized.
What is it? It is preparing your property for an event, for sale or to surprise your wife as a gift.
MowingAround Landscaping, since its inception in 2000, has always received calls for cleanups or minor stagings but about two years ago that work went to another level. My bi-weekly Business Referral Team (BRT) has HomeStyle Solutions as a member. HomeStyle Solutions was started by Diana Barton and her sister Pauline Dueck. They are the experts at looking at a home from the inside and out, and outlining what needs doing to obtain maximum return on your investment. Doesn’t that sound like common sense. Kind of like washing the car before you sell it or maybe getting a new paint job on the car because the $1500 painting increases the valley by 3-4k. Same concept with Home Staging and our work, knowing how to make the inside pop how to make the outset pop.
Since 2008 we have completed dozens of stagings. The last, on ten mile point, was a major all day ordeal with a full crew but when that property sold for its 4 mill asking price within a few days, then you know the investment paid off.
I approach each property with a buyer’s mentality and what I think catches that buyer’s initial eye. Sometimes that is as little as a weeding, some pruning and a lawn mowing.
On a recent makeover I attended to find a 30 acre estate on the peninsula with an amazing house but the grounds have been let go for five years. Himilayan blackberry has almost covered one complete side of the house. Likewise, the rest of the house is almost invisible because of the overgrown landscape. If I was to make an offer on this house prior to the makeover I would be offering alot less. $10k to save $100 to $200k. Nice return on the investment.
Additionally, we stage for Birthdays, Weddings, Anniversaries. Any time an owner wants to cleanup a property for an upcoming event we have the crew and expertise. Love this work. Creating and maintaining properties throughout Greater Victoria in a healthy way. MowingAround Feb. 2010