Sports professionals know the importance of starters. They understand the payback of putting your best efforts out there first. That it’s easier to establish and maintain their own momentum than to overcome anothers’. 

Starting players are strong, and bring a good game. They know the plan, understand strategy and teamwork, and can cement the trajectory. Starters help all players move forward. And in real estate, stagers are starters.

Baseball is the only major sport where players can’t come in and out of the game. You’re in, til you’re out, then you stay out. No back and forth. So this makes the strategy of choosing a starter especially important.

And pitchers have quite a structured hierarchy: The starters are leaders. They are proactive, establishing a foundation and building the pace. Relievers maintain or pick up the pieces and mitigate, while closers make short, intense appearances to seal the deal.

In the parallel universe of real estate, where everything turns on engaging listing photos, and all the good things happen in a listing’s early days, why wait til you’re foundering to bring in the listing mojo?

In real estate, when stagers are your starters, you make them part of the conversation early on. The Refreshed Home’s pre-listing consults do the proverbial heavy lifting of untangling, assessing, and diagnosing. We work with sellers and agents to bring all the disparate elements together, matching tasks and solutions to needs, circumstances, resources, and expectations.

In both real estate and baseball hope springs eternal this time of year.  New beginnings, better results beckon. Early in the season, new guys, new ideas get tried out to see what looks good, what works.

No matter if it’s a hot market or a meh market sellers and agents both hire stagers for the same reasons:

• To save everyone time
• To help sellers discover what they’re willing to do to get what they want
• To bring the best possible property to market from Day One

On Opening Day 2024 guys like Loga, Tarik, Tyler, and Luis will be the starters. In real estate, every new potential client meeting has the power to be Opening Day.

So if you’re a broker, or agent, instead of more new tech, or yet another new social media strategy, why not put aside what you think you know about staging and stagers, and start a conversation with this home stager instead? And sellers-if the brothers, or Chip and Joanna aren’t giving you the specific help or direction you need, well, you know what to do!

The Refreshed Home specializes in preparing occupied properties for sale in Westchester County. 

Since 2008 over $1B of our prepared properties have sold.