A National
Association of Realtors Surveyfound that:
"...The longer a home stays on the market, the further
below list price it drops. Homes that sold in the first
4 weeks averaged 1% more than the list price; 4 to 12
weeks averaged 5% less; 13 to 24 weeks averaged 6.4%
less; than list price; and 24 weeks averaged more than
10% less than list price".
According
to the National Association of Realtors
(NAR)::
...The
average staging investment is between 1
and 3 percent of the home's asking
price, which generates a return of 8 to
10 percent.
There are two ways that we work with
our clients.
1.
Hourly: If you only
have a small amount of work that you
need to have done, we can come to your
home and provide our services on an
Hourly basis.
2 Hour In-Home Walk Through
Consultation: Includes a
written summary of our evaluation of
your home's condition and needs, plus a
written outline of suggestions for all
work that should be done to properly
stage your home in order to make it
market ready - $350.00 Flat Fee
Half Day In Home Walk Through
Consultation: This is a more
thorough and in-depth walk through and
provides you with a much more detailed
written report. For larger homes,
this is definitely the better choice.
With this consultation, we will also
return back to your home a second time,
for up to 2 additional hours,
after you have completed all the work.
At that time, we will do a second walk
through and make absolutely sure that
all the work was done properly, giving
you the peace of mind of knowing that
your home is ready to hit the market.
If something was missed, or needs to be
tweaked, we will let you know -
$650.00 Flat Fee
Do it yourself Consultations require
FULL Payment up-front in advance.
INTERIOR DESIGN &
RE-DESIGN:
We currently do not have pre-priced package
plans for this service. Interior
Design projects require an extremely
high degree of individualized and
personalized service, so an In Home Consultation
is necessary. After we visit you home,
we will give you a Customized Price
Quote. Generally, you can expect that
our fees for this work will be a little
higher than for home staging because it
requires a deeper level of direct
personal involvement
and interaction with our clients.
Also, this service requires additional, specialized talents and skills.
In addition to our other services, we
also offer personalized shopping
services. This is already included
in our Staging Packages and will be
incorporated into our custom quotes for
Interior Design projects. We do,
however, offer this as a
stand alone service too.
Please contact us for more information and to
let us know what you need.
You are getting the benefit of two
shoppers, working as a team, with this
service. That old saying, "two
heads are better than one" is our
general philosophy because we find that
we are able to do a far better job for
you when we draw from the tastes,
opinions, talents and skills of more
than a single person.
We will come to your property both
Before and After each open
house and we will take care of all of
the details that need to be attended to.
Please see our
Services
Page for a detailed
description of what this service
provides.
Per Each Open House:
(Includes Goody Basket Refills) -
$225.00
Three or more Open Houses receive a
15% Discount starting with the 3rd Open
House.
(Vacant Homes Only)
This is the least expensive way to have
your home professionally staged if you
are on a tight budget but need to grab
that extra edge to make your home sell
faster. With this plan we will
come out to your home and professionally
photograph it inside and out.
After the photographs are taken, we will
add in beautifully appointed accessories
and furniture. The photographs
will have that "real world look" -
making your home look as if it were
staged in the real, physical world.
Your new "Virtual Staging Photographs"
can be used for marketing to help sell
your home faster. You can add them to
your MLS, to brochures, to websites, or
to anywhere you like. You can even
email the pictures to potential buyers.
If you don't like the first version, we
will provide you with up to 2 revisions.
We also give you a 10 day, unconditional
no questions asked money back guarantee.
Real world staging is always the better
choice, but if your budget is really
tight, this is an alternative that will
definitely help.
In this package you get 4 rooms,
virtually staged, plus three
outside real world photos of your
home - a total of 7 Photos. (Exterior virtual staging is not
yet available but we hope to add this
sometime in the future.)
IN-HOME
CONSULTATIONS AND CUSTOM PRICE QUOTES:
NEW - Name Your Own Price !
As a home owner/seller, you should have
an idea as to how much you feel
comfortable with in allocating a budget
for staging. We realize that not
everyone is rich and we want to try and
accommodate you as best as possible.
Tell us how much you can afford to spend
to have your home staged and we will
work with you to try and stay within
that budget if at all possible. In
order to do this, however, we need to
actually look at your home, evaluate it,
and than discuss our recommendations and
options
with you. We also need to learn
what your budget comfort level is, and
than we can finally come up with a
staging plan and arrive at a price
through that process. Contact Us Today
for an in home staging evaluation
Our initial consultation is Free.
Consultation / property evaluations give us a chance to view your home
and, based on what we see, we will
discuss with you the budget that you
have available. We can also
discuss, in general terms, the work that
we may be doing. After this first
initial consultation, if you decide that
you would like to move forward, then we
will make an appointment with you to
return back to your home for a second
consultation. This might be
scheduled for later the same day, the
next day, or a few days later, depending
on our scheduling and your needs.
During this second consultation we will
bring in one of our stagers/designers,
who will take part in getting started
with the actual, detailed planning of
the work to be done. We will walk
through your home again, but this time
we will be taking notes, taking photos,
filling out a written and detailed
"action plan", looking at your home from
the eyes of the potential buyer, and we
will get your feedback and discuss
various ideas with you.
Before we do this second consultation
you will be asked to pay an up-front
consultation fee of $350 (plus Hawaii G.E.T. tax). However, If you sign a contract
with us, to stage or decorate your home,
your consultation fee will be
credited back toward your total staging
/ design fees, making this 2nd consultation
completelyFREE.
The fee for this 2nd
consultation must be paid to us in CASH,
before work can begin.
Sorry, we cannot make exceptions for
this rule. If, after
your second consultation, you decide to
not have us do the work on your home
than this consultation fee is kept by
PHS to help cover the cost of coming
out to your home and the time that we spend
while we are there. In this
situation, you will be given a copy of
the "action plan", which is written
summary of our evaluation of your home's
condition and needs, as well as it also
a written outline of suggestions for all
work that should be done to properly
stage your home in order to make it
market ready. In the event that
you decide move forward and hire us to
do the actual staging (or design work)
then you will be asked to sign a staging
and design contract, pay an additional
fee to cover up front expenses, and the
action plan will be appended to and
become a part of the staging/design
contract so as to provide details of the
actual work that is agreed to be done.
STAGING FURNITURE
& ACCESSORIES:
For homes that are valued One Million
Dollars and below,
Furniture and Accessory Rental fees are
separate and are in
addition to staging fees. For high-end
Luxury homes, we do not offer rental
furniture and furniture purchases are
the only option. The cost is
calculated on an individual case by case
basis; Some furniture rental companies
that we work with may
require a minimum 60 or 90
day agreement, while others will rent furniture
month to month with only a one month
term requirement.
Delivery, installation and removal of
furnishings and accessories is now
included in our staging fees. If you have
questions about this, please feel free to ask.
Accessories are items such as art work,
bed spreads, pillows, candles, plants,
table settings, dishes, towels,
knickknacks, Etc. Accessories can
either be purchased, or rented.
Accessories are included in our
pre-priced per/room staging
package plans for
up to the first 30 days.
Most staged homes are sold within or
close to this
amount of time but
we charge a rental fee for accessory items if they are needed beyond
30
days. The exact amount of the
rental fee will be determined according
to the value of the specific
items placed into the home and will be
quoted to you at the time of contract
signing.
Furniture Rental Costs: As an example,
the cost for
a 1,200 SqFt home will typically be in the range
of $500 to $800 per month, including
delivery/pickup charges. But, depending on
the supplier and the exact amount and style of
furniture used, as
well as current availability of
furniture needed, prices will vary.
VIDEO
PRODUCTION SERVICES:
We can
help you with the marketing of your
property by providing a professional
video presentation of your home
after it has been staged and when it is
ready to go on the market. See ourservicespage
for more information.
Basic Video: Includes
on-location video shoot in Wide Screen
Hi-Definition, editing, background
music, text overlay's, up to 3 minutes
in length, encoding into flash .flv
format, uploaded to our server (we
provide hosting), and a one page
realtors webpage with the video embedded
into it.
$599.00.
Video Add-On's:
We can add a voice narration track,
provide actors (in multiple languages),
provide copy writing services, author
and burn your
video to DVD, and provide other services
as well. Please contact us for
more information. Video Production
is provided by our sister company, AjM
Digital Media -
http://www.ajmdigitalmedia.com
PROFESSIONAL STILL
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Using professional equipment and a
professional, commercial real estate
photographer, we can produce beautiful
photos of your home.
Our Basic Package gets you get 5 Room
Photos plus 2 Outside Photos of your
home. This includes taking the
pictures on location and photo editing -
I.E., color correction, image sizing
cropping, and other minor adjustments as
might be needed.
Total Package Cost: 5 Rooms
plus 2 Outside Photos $495.00
Additional Photos: $90 each.
Estimated Delivery Time: 2 to
3 business days, possibly less depending
on schedule.
From time to time we run special limited time
promotional offers. These offers
are subject to change or to end at any
time. During the time that we are
offering these promotions, some
requirements will apply. To
qualify for a promotional offer, you
will need to meet the specific
requirements.
Unless otherwise agreed - We require an up front
payment equal to 60% of the total staging /
design fees for all projects.
The balance is due upon completion of the
project. Fees for Consultations must be paid for 100%
up-front in advance. There
are no refunds for Consultation fees.
We Do Not Currently Accept Any Other Methiod's
of Payment
We DO NOT
directly accept personal or business checks.
We also do not accept cashers checks drawn on
out of area banks, bank money orders, or
travelers checks. There will be NO
Exceptions to this policy.
PayPal, offers you options to use a credit card
(VISA,
Master Card, AMEX, Discover, Etc.), or to pay by
electronic check drawn on your personal
or business checking account.
PayPal is our
Preferred Payment Service Provider.
You do not need a PayPal account in order to
make a credit card payment via PayPal. However -
If you wish to use PayPal to pay using funds
from your checking account then PayPal will
require that you sign-up for a PayPal account
and that your account be verified.
Payments made via PayPal
must clear before work
can be scheduled or begin (see below).
For more information regarding PayPal
payments, visit
http://www.paypal.com
All consultations that require a fee must be
paid for in advance, or at the time they are
scheduled.
Interior Design projects will require
payments for accessories and any other
items that are purchased, either in
advance of the purchases or at the time
of delivery to your home, according to
arrangements we will make with you prior
to beginning your project.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Upon the signing of a Staging or Interior Design/Re-Design
Contract, no work will be scheduled or can begin until
after 3 business days have passed following
the date and time of contract signing.
Also,any payments made via
PayPal,
cashers checks or money orders must clear and be collected
before work can be scheduled, before work can
begin, before any services can be rendered, and
before any purchases for the client can be made.There will beNO EXCEPTIONS to this policy.
