On this week’s episode, the Pickle Lady Team discusses the pros and cons of leaving your property vacant when you move. Worried about breaking the bank staging your home? We give you tips on how to save time and money, and have your home look perfectly staged!
Video Transcript
Hello, hello, hello, hello peeps. I am Diane Bro with my fellow co-host here, Randall Bro. Uh we are the Pickle team. I am the pickle lady. We are local uh husband and wife team here in Prescuit and we are today we’re going to talk to you about vacant homes. Vacant homes. Vacant homes. So, we have a lot of listings where the folks head out um for whatever reason. (00:29) They’ve identified their other home, they’re moving on, and they leave the home vacant. And so, um it can be a good thing. It doesn’t necessarily have to be staged. A lot of times what we like to do is um we’ll take pictures of the empty rooms. We will have it virtually staged. will get a picture of a virtually staged room in your house, put it on a big easel, so when people walk in, they can get the idea without you having to spend that extra money to officially stage. (00:58) So, a lot of times we’ll do that. We also will virtually stage your vacant home online. So, we’ll have a picture of the actual empty room next to a picture of what it could look like if it were virtually staged. We even have one that uh can change the color of the walls. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we can. That’s pretty cool. (01:18) Yeah. Yeah. If uh if you’ve got a a a paint that may not be as popular as it once was, or maybe you kind of took a chance on a color that’s not going to really hit a broad a broad audience, we can fix that for you virtually and show people what it would look like. One of the big things about vacant homes, particularly now, is, you know, the open concept is so big. Yeah. (01:42) Uh people don’t understand. You’ve been around long enough. You know, open concept is going to die eventually. It it everything they’re going to bring back popcorn ceilings. I’m telling it goes around comes around. Goes around comes around. That beautiful brass, you know, fixtures in the bathroom. It’s heading back. I’m sure it will. (01:58) The glass block has come in and out of style like three or four times. So anyway, the open open concept’s really big. The thing about a vacant home that’s open concept is people see a big open space and they have there’s nothing to define what the areas of the room are. So, we find if you’re going to show if you’re going to have a a vacant home that is really open concept, it really helps to do some virtual staging to give people an idea. (02:30) Okay, here’s where I would put my dining room table and here would be a seating area. And you know, we’d probably put the TV here or maybe there’s another option. You could put it there, you know, so that people can begin to solve. They need to visualize the room. They need to be able to visualize and if they can’t, they just kind of stay too confused uh and and they just move on. (02:53) So, the good thing about vacant homes, too, is we can list it as a go and show. Yeah. which means uh people can just an agent can call and make an appointment and get in there like in five minutes. Um there’s no hold up. I’m waiting for approval. It’s instant confirmation of an appointment. So people can get right in. (03:11) So you get a little bit more showing sometimes that way. Yeah. Especially if you’re in a busy road, people will see it and say, you know what, I want to see that. And so they’ll stop and they can easily get in. So it’s kind of a win-win. Um but that’s how we kind of deal with it. We do some nice virtual staging. (03:29) We do some uh artwork, you know, canvases on just that people can see right when they walk in. Boom. Oh, wow. This is what it could look like. Yeah. So, don’t be intimidated if you feel like you have to move and move on and leave it vacant. It can still happen and happen easily. Yeah. A lot of times, too. Yeah. A lot of times too, people uh have lived in homes where they had to downsize and over time they began to push on the confines of that home, putting a little bit too much furniture, a little too many pictures on the walls, a little too much kit on the on the the (04:06) shelving and everything. And uh if that process goes on long enough, actually the home shows better vacant. It does. There have been a number of homes that we’ve done. It’s like, why don’t you move and we’ll show it vacant. We think it’s going to show better. Right. Right. Right. And I would be for smaller homes. (04:24) I would be guilty of one of those. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We filled the space. We’re speaking from the heart. Absolutely. We know of a personal experience. So, sometimes it is better just to move on. Absolutely. All right, my friends. For more tips, please check us out at pickle411.com. Go ahead. (04:43) That is our free information site. Whether you’re a buyer, seller, or somewhere in between, because some of you are somewhere, that’s still the place to go. That’s right. Stuff you will find there is absolutely free. It will amaze, entertain, astound, and inform you. It will become a part of you. You will tell all your friends about it. So, go to pickle411.com. (05:04) All right. So, don’t be afraid of of going bye-bye and moving on to your next chapter. We’ll take care of it and get it done. Absolutely. All right, friends. Take care and have a wonderful day. Bye bye.
