Nine things you
will not be managing.
No two houses need the same work, and no seller wants to spend the month before listing collecting bids. We scope what your home actually needs, schedule the trades, supervise the work, and hand you one point of contact for all of it.
The single highest-return item on this list, and the one sellers most often skip because of the disruption. Colours chosen for photography and for the buyer who has to imagine their own furniture in the room.
Beds cut, canopy lifted, the dead zone in the irrigation finally traced. The approach to the house is the first photograph in the set and the first thing a buyer sees from the car.
A full deep clean before the photographer arrives, and again before the first showing. Glass and floors are most of what reads as “maintained” in a photograph.
Rooms edited down to what makes them look their size, and the rest packed and put into storage rather than shuffled into a garage a buyer is going to open.
The failed zone, the sticking door, the millwork nobody has touched since 1998. Every one of these becomes a line item in a buyer’s inspection response if it is still there in escrow — and costs more then.
Staged to suit the architecture rather than to a single showroom look. An empty room at this price reads as a problem; a wrongly furnished one reads as somebody else’s taste.
Packers, transport and storage arranged around the listing calendar, so the move happens when it suits the campaign instead of colliding with the photography or the first weekend of showings.
Trades we have used repeatedly and will use again next month, which is the only reason they show up on time for a six-week job. You are not calling three numbers off the internet and waiting for bids.
Scope set, sequence planned, trades booked in an order that does not have the painters following the floor crew. We supervise it and you approve it — you are not on site chasing anybody.
The list is ordinary.
Not having to run it is not.
Any seller can find a painter, a landscaper and a stager. What they cannot easily do is scope the work correctly, book it in an order that does not have one trade undoing another’s, and keep all of it inside the six weeks before the photographer arrives — while living in the house. That coordination is the service. The trades are specialists we have used for years and will use again next month, which is why they turn up.
You approve a scope once. After that there is one person to call about all nine items, and it is the same person who is selling the house — not a coordinator you have never met.
We walk the house and tell you which of these it actually needs, and which it does not. A seller talked into work the house did not require has paid for the privilege of listing later.
The order matters more than the individual trades: declutter before staging, repairs before paint, everything before the photographer. Work done out of sequence gets done twice.
The cost of the program is carried and settled from proceeds at closing, so preparing the home properly does not depend on what you can lay out before it sells.