Should I Redecorate my Frisco TX Home Before Putting It on the Market?

What is the answer to one of the most frequently asked questions by home sellers?

Yes, you should redecorate your Frisco TX home for sale. Before you react or get upset, here’s the reason why I am suggesting you redecorate.



I know you are proud of your Frisco home. It is one of your best financial assets and you have worked hard to make it comfortable and dreamy. You have created a lot of memories in that home.


When the time has come for you to sell your Frisco TX home, you might be apprehensive about what potential buyers may say when they come and visit your home. To make your home sell-worthy, you need to redecorate.


You must remember that potential home buyers have different tastes and preferences. No matter how artistic, exotic or unique your home decor may be, it must be toned down to make it more appealing to the potential buyer’s taste.


It must be done if you want to sell your home successfully.

How important is Redecorating?

Redecorating or staging is a must for any home for sale. It ensures that your home is sold successfully and potentially can add value to your home.


This process involves highlighting your home’s strengths and downplaying its weakness. It gives potential home buyers a chance to visualize what the house will look like once it’s theirs.


Consider staging similar to product packaging. You are packaging your Frisco TX home for sale so that it can be more attractive to buyers.


Staging does not need to be expensive. There are many budget-friendly things you can do to stage your home. The best thing is, staging your home properly yields higher return.

What are some basic staging techniques you can apply to your home?

Before your home goes on the market, here are some staging techniques you can do.

1. Deep clean and declutter. Do more than the regular home cleaning you are used to. Even the cleanest home has something to clean or get rid of.


This means getting rid of or putting into storage any knick-knacks or books that have been accumulating in the corner. Take out the excessive display of your children’s accomplishments that hang on all the walls of the living room. Remove 90% of your personal stuff in the home.


You want the home to look clean and tidy and with plenty of space, and decluttering accomplishes that. If your carpet has not been cleaned for a year, now is the perfect time to have it deep cleaned. If you don’t have time, consider getting a professional cleaning job.


2. A fresh coat of paint.  Paint is a miracle worker. It can make dirty walls look new. It gives new life to anything it touches.


A fresh can of paint can make the home look better, brighter and newer. Also, go neutral with the paint. If you wish to make it more lively, add a pop of color and use it as an accent.


3. Repair and maintain. Do not ignore the seemingly small repair issues.


Replace the leaking faucet and cracked tile in the kitchen. Change the bathroom’s broken door knob. Fix the rundown portion of the fence.


A good thing to do to know what to fix and improve is to walk from the street and look at your home with a buyer’s eye. Check out the roof, sidings, windows and walls.


4. Improve your home’s lighting. Buyers love homes that are bright, open and well-lighted.


Replace any busted light fixtures and upgrade to contemporary styled ones. Take out the dark, heavy draperies hanging on the windows to let in natural light. Not only does this trick brighten the home, it also makes the space look bigger.


5. Spruce up your home’s curb appeal. Mow the lawn, prune the shrubs and trees and plant some colorful flowers in the garden. Make sure that your walkway is clean and well-kept.



These staging techniques are inexpensive, simple and can add value to your Frisco TX home for sale. Visit our website www.316RealEstate.com for more helpful tips and techniques on home staging.


Call us, Loreena Yeo and Mike Yeo at (214) 783-2210 and let us help make your real estate journey easier.

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Should I Use a Realtor to Sell My Frisco TX House?

This is 2017 when this article is published and here in the surrounding Frisco, Prosper, North Dallas area, real estate market is still booming hot. This article is really not to convince you if you should use a real estate agent to sell your home but just some of our personal experiences of why – if we were a home seller, we would not consider NOT using one.

It’s a HOT SELLER’S MARKET. Anything sells. So it seems. Why should you consider hiring a real estate agent?

Well, as they say, “You don’t know what you don’t know” until you are faced with what you needed to know. While every buyer and seller know what a HOT SELLER’s MARKET is,

1.Does a seller know how does a potential home buyer react in a hot seller’s market?

2. Does a seller know what are the right questions to ask the potential buyer(s) when showing the property? Did the seller share too much information that is detrimental to his/ her sale?

We are typically “nice” friendly people. But sometimes saying “too much” gives your negotiation power away. Sometimes saying “not enough” may seem like you are hiding something.

3. There are over 30+ items to negotiate on a sales contract not yet to include the addenda that come with it. Most often, buyers and sellers focus on the price but as our real estate experiences show, it does not always boil down to price. Closing dates, possession, other non-realty items are some of the other things that may come into play.

Then, how about objections to other documents that come back in after title search or HOA documents?

There are big things to negotiate on the contract. Then, there are some items that are not so important. Could you identify them correctly?

4. How about delivery of money, documents, etc.? Would you know when what is due?

It is not our intention to scare you away by trying to do it yourself. Most of the time, our observations about sellers who try to avoid a seller representing them may not even know how to negotiate to protect themselves. Yet the transaction went well. But sometimes, not every Frisco TX home seller is that lucky.

Some form of representation is always better than none, especially when you hire a fully qualified, high-octane real estate agent to represent you.

5. Do you know how to handle multiple offer situation? What may be the steps in doing that? However, most often than not, most individual home sellers who sell their home individually do not experience multiple offers because they don’t know:

a. How to drum up multiple offers?

b. What to do with multiple offers? (when it happens)

c. How to correctly negotiate multiple offers?

d. How to evaluate all the offers that come in?

6.  Buyer qualification is HUGE. Not all buyers are pre-qualified the same way. Would you know how to screen them?

And before all these contract negotiation opportunities, do you know what and how to prepare your home to give it its most deserving appeal to the most amount of buyers?

There is never a perfect home out there (yes, although you might think so). Do you know what are the items that really need to focus on when selling? Which are less important to buyers?

Do you know how to secure your property during showings? Do you know who is entering your house and if the reason is truly to potentially buy your home?

I do think I should stop now. Otherwise, it would be very overwhelming. You get the gist.

A good real estate agent knows how to get top dollar for your property in the least amount of inconveniences and heartache because a real estate transaction is very emotional, especially when it is talking about your home, where all your memories were made.

It’s best to leave it to the professional.

In case you can not view this video here, please click the link below to view Should I Use a Realtor to Sell My Frisco TX House on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/c8DibgKnq-I