What is Home Staging?.   

Buying or selling your home is one of the biggest financial decisions you will ever make.  Make this decision easier by choosing Dave O’Reilly and Elizabeth Berghuis of Sutton Group - Capital Realty Ltd.  Our professional service is called “Setting the Stage^®” - a fresh approach to real estate.  This service offers you:

Ø       A FREE Professional Appraisal from a third party, independent appraiser – Brent Pelley, CRA. A typical real estate agent certainly can give you a Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) on your property, but we feel a professional appraiser is better equipped to give a more precise value, which translates into you maximizing your financial return. This appraisal will determine the selling price - the most important aspect of putting your ‘house on the market’.  A value is determined by finding 3 comparable properties sold within the last 6 months, which ensures a timely and accurate evaluation.

Ø       A FREE Home Staging Information Session complete with helpful guidelines that will help you turn your home into a house. Not sure what “staging” means - simply put, it’s preparing your house so that potential homebuyers can see themselves living in your house - Learn more by clicking on the left bar - What is Home Staging?.  Want to learn more about “Home Staging” – watch HGTV on Wednesday nights – It’s Real Estate night.

Besides the exceptional offer outlined above, Dave and Elizabeth bring the following attributes to the table as your agents:

Ø       We’ll Listen To You!  We want to understand what it is that you are looking for in a home.  If you are not sure – we’ll complete a “Needs Check List” – this efficient tool will help us determine what size home you need, what price range, and how many bedrooms, etc.

Ø       We’ll Save you time!  Once we’ve determined what your needs are, we will do the legwork for you. Instead of wandering around looking at every house on the market, we will find the potential homes that will fit your needs and present them to you, i.e. if you need four bedrooms it would be a waste of time to look at houses with less than four bedrooms.

Ø        We’ll Book the Viewings for you!  Once you have looked at the homes we have found that fit your needs, you choose which ones you want to view and we will book the appointments.

Ø       We’ll Keep you Focused!  We all buy items on impulse but a house is definitely not an impulse buy. We will keep you focused and keep you from buying a house on an impulse - impulse buying always turns out to be a mistake. Our completed “Needs Checklist” will keep all of us focused on what it is you are looking for and in the price range you have indicated.

Ø        We’ll Handle the Paperwork!  Once we’ve found a home, we will help you prepare an offer and negotiate with the seller’s agent in order to get you what you need on terms that are acceptable to you.

Ø       We’ll Advise You!  Selling a home and then buying another can be very stressful, so let us guide you through the whole buying and selling process.  We’re on your team!

Ø        We’ll Help you with the Details!  Because we are in the business of buying and selling homes – we’ll help you to determine the sometimes forgotten costs  – permits, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Fees, legal services, property taxes, heating costs, moving companies, storage facilities, etc.

Ø        We’ll Save you Money!  We will negotiate on your behalf to get you the best possible deal.

Ø         We’ll Make Recommendations!  We have done our research and can recommend a mortgage specialist, a real estate attorney, a professional home inspector and other professionals.  Just ask.  Sometimes looking in the yellow pages can be overwhelming – so we’ll assist you in finding what you need.

To get our Team working for you – Call Dave O’Reilly (685-8140) or Elizabeth Berghuis (685-2626).