Sellers – The Benefits of Staging Your Home
By  Kris Berg  via HGTV
Your home might be beautiful. Maybe it is immaculate, stylishly appointed to suit your tastes or highly upgraded with the finest materials and features. Perhaps it is all of these things. But, unless you are one in a thousand, it is not “staged.”
Staging a home for sale is not a new concept, but it is a practice that has gained steam with our more challenging market. I see many home sellers confuse staging with decorating and consequently resisting the process and the recommendations of the staging professional. But the reality is that the moment you commit to marketing your home for sale, you need to commit to transforming your home into a place that potential buyers can easily picture as their home. This means that you need to be prepared to emotionally detach.
Let your home speak to buyers.Your home speaks to you, but what is it saying to your potential buyer? Most sellers we encounte ...

The traits that you are seeking in a realtor will likely include professionalism, high close rate, honesty, enthusiasm, patience,  and knowledge of the market-but how do you know when you've made the right choice? At Steve Laakso Real Estate Team Steve and Camarae have an extensive understanding of our local market and a fun, honest approach for their clients. We are grateful to our clients and have been devotedly providing the best service for 12 years and hope to create long lasting relationships with them.  Here is what our clients are saying:
 
 
“Steve was very open and easy to visit with. We felt he cared and wanted to help us find the home we wanted. Thanks Steve, very much, for your diligence!”  -Joel & Jeana Miller
 
“I'd highly recommend Steve Laakso to anyone who is looking for a great realtor.  I know many competent realtors in Gillette.  However, when it came time for me to list my home I chose Steve becaus; ...

 
We are often asked what the average sales price is here in Gillette and where are we in comparison to previous years. In 2014 the average sales price is $216,268 which compares to 2006 ($216,811) and 2010 ($217,734). Since 2006 the peak average price was in 2007 ($232,694). Over this past year we have seen a 4% appreciation, which means our market is trending in the right direction.

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Real estate is full of jargon like and big words. When it comes down to breaking the code The Steve Laakso Real Esate Team is tops in their field as illustrated by the following:
LP/SP - (List to Sales ratio)  97.8
The final sale price (what a buyer pays for the home) divided by the last list price expressed as a percentage. If it's above 100%, the home sold for more than the list price. If it's less than 100%, the home sold for less than the list price. Looking at sale-to-list percentages can help buyers and sellers get a sense of how to negotiate on pricing. 
DOM - (Days on Market)  128

The average days on market before closing on a sale. For Campbell County the rate was 278 days. The Steve Laasko Real Estate Team exceeded the overall average for our area.

Close Rate - 90%

The Steve Laakso Real Estate Team sold a house every 4 days for 2014!!

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