To Feng Shui Or Not To Feng Shui

How to make your house stand out amongst the competition.

I recently heard the quote "You've got to do what it takes to get it done." This especially rings true in today's Real Estate market.If you are selling or want to sell your property, you have to do more than put a sign in your yard and have your property listed in the MLS. It takes some "thinking outside the box" to get your property sold. This is where staging comes in.

Once you decide to sell your house, the most critical step is preparing it to be put on the market. What you do or don't do prior to allowing your house to be shown to prospective buyers, can mean the difference between getting offers or not getting offers. Most people know what "staging" a property means. But I take it one step further and advise my clients to hire a Feng Shui Stager to evaluate their house.

Feng Shui is both an art and a science and uses visible and invisible forces to find maximum harmony and balance. A Feng Shui Stager may re-arrange furniture, add or take away color, move or remove figurines/artifacts, utilize chanting, numerology and other traditions to balance and harmonize your house, so when a buyer walks in they immediately feel they are in a "positive" home. Feng Shui practitioners can also utilize techniques to dissipate the negativity of financial woes, which is more relevant today than any other time in recent history.

Hiring a Feng Shui expert may cost a couple hundred dollars for an initial consultation and for a complete overhaul it is usually priced based on square footage, so it does mean an investment up front. But all things being equal, a staged house, especially one that has been staged using Feng Shui principles, will cause the property to sell faster and at a higher price than the "non-staged" competition. So when you are considering the question to feng shui or not to feng shui, I think you know the answer.

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