Showhomes: Beauty for the house to be sold

Showhomes that if you are willing to spend 3000 of dollars decorating the house, it may bring you 25,000 of dollars in back-end earnings. Article | Jason Daley If you sell your Beanie Babies plush toys on ebay, the final price is 10% less than your bid, which may not be a big deal. But how happy would you be if you got a 10% discount on buying a house and saved tens of thousands of dollars easily? As a result, real estate agents and homeowners will dress up when they sell their houses, inviting interior designers to rearrange the furniture of their homeowners or to put more upscale items in their rooms. This is done, of course, in order to allow potential buyers to see the house, involuntarily in the mind to outline the ideal home picture. Showhomes is an affiliate from Nashville, and they have more people involved in the business. The franchisee employs some family managers who, for the time being, will be housed in homes that are being sold for a while, and will also be able to provide excellent housing for these houses while they are in charge of cleaning the house. Linda Saavedra is a showhomes franchisee, and her franchise is located in Tampa, Florida State. Saavedra has been working in this industry for 5 years. "There is a lot of data to show that it is good to dress up a house before it is sold," she said. This can increase sales speed 60%〜70%, increase the amount of sales 7%〜10%, and sometimes even improve 25%. Sometimes a house can be listed in the market for several months, but after decoration, within a few days it will be successfully sold out. We interviewed Saavedra and asked her to explain the mystery of the business. Q: is decorating the house expensive? A: The cost of decorating the house will cost about 0.75%〜1.5% the price of the sale, depending on the type of decoration, the total area to be decorated and the time of construction. But this is a very worthwhile investment. For example, if you invest 3000 dollars in decorating, it will bring you 25,000 of dollars in back-end earnings after the final sale. Once your house has been listed in the market for more than 30 days, it usually falls in price and is very large, such as reducing the cost of 10,000 dollars and 20,000 dollars. The cost of decorating houses is much smaller than the decline in house prices. Q: Why is this service so popular now? A: Buyers usually meet the realtor first and then drive to see the house together. Today, the Internet has changed the industry. We can buy a variety of things online, for example, when we buy a car or book a hotel, we look at the photos on the Internet. The same is true for housing transactions. When the seller publishes the photos of his free house on the Internet, if the house is in a mess and is dilapidated, and it happens to be next to a picture of a decorated house, it is clear that the decorated House will get moreAttention, most buyers are willing to buy this clean and tidy house, the price will be higher. Q: What value can a family manager bring to customers? A: A living house and a house where no one lives will bring a completely different feeling to potential buyers. And the insurance costs of idle homes are ridiculously high. In Florida State, if your house is not inhabited, you have to report it to the insurance company, or you will have to bear the risk of termination. But insurers charge high premiums for idle homes, usually at $1800 a 90-day price. Even if your house is sold within a week, the insurance company will not refund it proportionally. Insurance companies think that the risk of idle housing is high, it is very easy to be damaged or stolen, anything can happen. A former colleague of mine has a house worth about 1 million dollars in the city. The house was stolen during idle time, losing 8000 of dollars in air-conditioning and other appliances. It is clear that the sale of houses will help house sales, and with our family managers, people will not only have to worry about decorating, but also save a premium. Q: What are the requirements for becoming a good family manager? A: They must stick to a special way of life that is different from you and me. It means you can't put water bottles or shoes in your house. Every morning, they have to pack up their toothbrushes, wet towels to immediately put into the dryer and turn on the dryer power. They must keep the house clean and tidy and ready to be seen. We will inform them two hours before we visit the house. We like family managers who have a little obsessive compulsive disorder. In the process of people screening, we also have a lot of requirements. We're looking for people who have beautiful furniture that they can put on the house for sale for the time being. They can't have tourists thinking. We want people who have had their own houses or who want to own their own homes in the future. In Tampa, our family manager worked an average of 18 months, but one of them had already changed the house 11 times. There is also a family of 4 children who is also our manager. For them, it's a perfect job: they can save up to buy their own dream house and teach their children to pack their own mattresses and toys. Translation | Roux Cloud