Sometimes the most important step in selling a home is giving buyers the space to imagine their own future there.

For Sheryl Wingate, a Redfin agent who has worked with sellers since 2011, that often means helping homeowners step back from the property before it ever hits the market.

When Sheryl first met the sellers of this home, they were still living in the space. After discussing the listing strategy together, they made the decision to move out so the home could be presented as a clean, open canvas for buyers.

That decision opened the door for a different kind of preparation.

With the home vacant, Sheryl was able to coordinate inspections, light updates, cleaning, painting, and professional staging—transforming the property into a polished listing that would photograph beautifully and stand out the moment it launched online.

Through Notable’s pay-at-close funding, the sellers were able to complete all of that work without covering the costs upfront. Instead of tying up their cash during the selling process, they could move forward with their next chapter while the preparation work was handled.

By the time the home hit the market, it looked completely different from when the process began—bright, staged, and ready for buyers to walk through and immediately picture themselves living there.

That preparation helped drive the kind of results sellers hope for: less time on the market and a stronger price per square foot, ultimately putting more money back into the sellers’ pockets at closing.