Real Estate Staging Services for North East Ohio

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Diana Hudson Kresnye of Devine Designs – As Seen In Ohio Magazine, Cleveland Magazine, Lake Erie Living Magazine, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland Home Décor Magazine, The Lake County News Herald.

When Devine Designs stages your house, we do it for a minimal investment with maximum impact in the marketplace!

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Thinking About Putting Your House Up For Sale?

Has Your House Been On The Market for MONTHS?

Want to Sell Your House Quickly & For Top Dollar?

Tired of SHOWING Your House Instead of SELLING It?

Unsure What You Should Do to Prepare Your House for Sale?

Exhausted By Months of Keeping Rooms “Show-House” Ready?

Frustrated by Months of Price Reductions?

No matter where you are in the selling process, STAGING your house for sale can be the difference between it sitting and selling.

ASK YOURSELF two questions: What sets your house apart? Why should someone buy it and not another one down the street??

Potential buyers go through a house with one goal – to get it for as low a price as possible. They don’t look at your house through rose-colored glasses – they go through it with a magnifying glass making a "running list" in their minds of the negative aspects of your house as they tour the property. As the list grows, their offer price shrinks. Staging ensures that this list is short and their offer is swift and for top dollar!

An average potential buyer spends just 3-4 minutes walking through a house. You need to make those moments both profitable and memorable.

Staging is NOT decorating; it is merchandising a “product". When you're selling a house, it becomes a product. We want to sell a lifestyle, but not your lifestyle (sorry, but nothing personal).

Buyers need to be able to imagine themselves living in your house. Remember: The way you live in your home and the way we market your house are two very different things. As you can see in the photos below, staging has transformed the room into one that is purposeful and welcoming to prospective buyers.

Home buyers are looking at your home on the internet before they ever step into the actual property... Your home can be eliminated from a buyer's "must see" list if it doesn't have curb appeal with online photos that show the property in its best possible condition. However, a Staged home can create that great first impression... The message the buyer receives is: "This house won't be on the market long, we better put an offer in NOW!" Staging makes buyers want to move IN ...not move ON.

Buyers have ONE goal in their house hunting: to reduce the price of your home! They begin this process by making a "running list" in their minds of the negative aspects of your house as they tour the property. As the list grows, their offer price shrinks. Staging ensures that this list is short and their offer is swift and for top dollar!

You list your house for $250,000. It stays on the market for six months with no offers. You have reduced your selling price by TENS OF THOUSANDS at this point, but you’re not getting showings because it's now considered an "old listing".

For just several HUNDRED dollars, your home could have shown at its very best from the beginning and you would have received that top dollar offer you were looking for in just a fraction of the time.


Market Ready Assessment	The home-selling process can be quite exciting but, with so much to do, it can be difficult to know exactly where to begin. Devine Designs’ Market Ready Assessment provides you with a WRITTEN, PRIORITIZED report that tells you exactly what needs to be done to help your house sell. The Market Ready Assessment Includes: Customized, room-by-room enhancement recommendations you can implement yourself. If we suggest you remove wall paper or paint a room, we will tell you EXACTLY what color we want you to paint. No guessing on your part! Recommendations of any repairs or improvements that will benefit the property A list of the Top Staging Priorities for each room Ways to maximize square footage in the “power rooms” that will make or break a sale. Armed with written the Market Ready Assessment, you can immediately begin doing the work yourself or hiring the painters, cleaners, packers etc. Need help with completing the work? Devine Designs can do it all! Fee: The cost of a MRA report is 10% of the square footage of your home as listed on your county auditor's website (e.g. a report for a 2300 Sq. Ft. house would be $230) This includes up to four (4) hours of time to complete the report. If additional time is needed beyond the four hours, a fee of $75/hour will be charged. Our minimum fee for a written MRA report is $180.00 (e.g. if your home is 1100 Sq. Ft. the charge for the report would be $180.00)
Shopping	Diana can shop for key accessories to help you pull the look together. She knows all the places to get steals and deals! Fee: $85/hour
Hands-On Staging	During your Hands-On Consultation: Forget the written report, instead bring Diana in for an hour or two if your house just needs a bit of tweaking in order to get it ready to sell. Diana will use her staging expertise to help you create the WOW factor that buyers respond to during this hands-on process. She will make things happen as she goes room to room and may re-arrange furniture, re-accessorize bookshelves, give you specific paint colors to create warm and welcoming rooms, and help you showcase your square footage. Diana puts the finishing touches on the house ensuring it's ready to show & sell! Fee: $125.00/hour
Out-Of-Area/State Sellers	If you’re already out of the area but have a house to sell, Diana can take care of everything for you! She has resources who can paint, make repairs & do even landscaping. Call for a Custom Quote

Diana:

I got a contract on the house! I continue to think you are just amazing and such a benefit as a partner to help us sell more homes. I am looking forward to having future success stories!

Thanks so much,

Darren Burke
Keller-Williams
Greater Cleveland N.E.

”Diana, our house is SOLD!! It’s only been a WEEK since you staged it when it has sat for more than a year on the market! We cannot thank you enough for all the work you did to make the house sell. WOW, now even my mom (who was skeptical to say the least) is a believer!”

Tonia D.
Burton

“In today’s market, you need to be the best out there and Diana helped us to do that. Once we had the staging complete, we had an offer on the house within 24 hours! In addition, we had a second offer within two days. To go from no offers for the better part of three months to two within days, was FANTASTIC!

Sharon & Buddy A.
Willowick

“Diana saw what was preventing the house from selling and brought a stager's eye to making changes and pulling it all together. We wish we would have known about Diana a year ago. We could have staged from the start and avoided months of market changes, price reductions, waiting, frustration, stress, and worry."

Wendy P.
Mentor

“I thought I was good. Diana is magical!”

Judy Crockett
Howard Hanna Smythe Cramer, Mentor OH

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Thinking About Putting Your House Up For Sale?

Has Your House Been On The Market for MONTHS?

Want to Sell Your House Quickly & For Top Dollar?

Tired of SHOWING Your House Instead of SELLING It?

Unsure What You Should Do to Prepare Your House for Sale?

Exhausted By Months of Keeping Rooms “Show-House” Ready?

Frustrated by Months of Price Reductions?

Market Ready Assessment

Shopping

Hands-On Staging

Out-Of-Area/State Sellers