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When showing prospective residents through your community via a tour, your goal is to make them feel right at home. You want them to be able to picture themselves in your residences, living in your community, and enjoying your lifestyle, and this can be pretty tough with an empty residence and a “ghost town” feel. Staging your residences can be one of the most important things you can do on a tour, and we at Occupancy Solutions are here to help you to do it right. A few tips and tricks when staging a perfect residence any prospective community member can call home are:

  • Keep it neutral – While bright colors and edgy style may really pique the interest of some, it could adversely turn off others. When staging your residence, make sure to keep the colors, styles, and materials being used as neutral and as clean as possible. You want to create a residence that any prospective resident can call their own, and keeping things neutral can help to make this a reality.
  • Make it warm, but not too warm – There is no feeling more inviting than coming home to your cozy home, but keep in mind that prospective residents aren’t going to be removing their coat and shoes when they walk through the door to take the tour. Keeping the residence slightly cooler and more comfortable can allow prospects to walk through comfortably no matter the time of year.
  • Keep it maintained – When walking through a potential residence to call home, a prospective leaser doesn’t want to see things shabby or broken. Keeping your staged home in great shape can allow them to better envision all the good times they could be spending enjoying the space as their own.
  • Take questions sitting down – Having furniture in the sitting room can actually serve a double purpose. Prospective residents can see what the room will look like furnished, and you can create a great living room conversation environment that allows them to feel comfortable asking questions and getting to know the space.

At Occupancy Solutions, we want to make your tours more successful, and this can be done with smart residence staging. To learn more about staging the perfect residence, simply check us out at OccupancySolutions.com today!