HOW TO STAGE YOUR HOME FOR SALE TO MILLENNIALS

Selling your house? TV shows are great at showing you how to stage your house… if you’re on TV. But in real life, millennials are starting to buy homes, and the things that made you buy your house are not the same as what the young generation is looking for. Here is how NOT to stage your house these days:
1. No over-the-top landscaping. Busy millennials don’t care for manicured lawns. They prefer the convenience of an outdoor space that’s easy to maintain, along with – wink wink – cultivating indoor plants. If you know what I mean. If you get my drift. If you can read between the li—ALRIGHT, IT’S POT. THEY WANT TO GROW THEIR OWN POT.
2. No formal dining room. Younger buyers tend to consider the dining room a waste of space. Young buyers enjoy cooking in their kitchen and want to eat in or near their kitchen, too. (* Actually, near their video game consoles.)
3. No floor plan that designates a living room, kitchen, and dining room. Millennials seek multifunctional rooms that make the home feel like one flowing space. Kitchens should have breakfast bars or islands that open to the living space.
4. No brand-new carpeting. Millennials are moving away from carpeting in favor of bare floors with statement rugs. Also, noncarpeted flooring is more pet-friendly, and millennials love their pets.
5. No memorabilia rooms. Millennials aren’t defined by their possessions – and they definitely don’t want to showcase them in a room. So if you’re thinking about staging a room where you can show off all of your stuff, forget it. Instead, stage the room as a gaming area or a media room with a large TV.
* Will millenials actually look up from their phones long enough to notice all this stuff?
* Why do millennials even need a kitchen? I thought all they did was order in from UberEats. What they need is a trash recycling room.
* Remember, 22% of millennial Americans are living with their parents, so if an older couple has come along to look at the house, THEY’RE the actual buyers.
* Look, it’s not like you can afford to move anyway. Here’s what you do: give up. Move into the basement, and rent out the top floors as an AirBnB.