Three teams. One timeline. No handoffs.

It depends on the home, but the honest answer is almost always: less than you fear, more than you’d guess. The strategy meeting starts with a third-party inspection — on our dime — that gives us the actual list of what matters and what doesn’t. From there we build a prep plan scoped to the home you actually have, not the home a generic checklist would describe. Some homes need three weeks. Some need eight. Some need almost nothing.

Compass Concierge does. The program fronts the cost of pre-sale work — painting, light remodel, staging, design work — and the balance is repaid at the close of escrow from your sale proceeds. You don’t write a check before the home sells. The full mechanics are in the Concierge FAQ, including the repayment terms if a home doesn’t sell within the listing window.

Roughly six weeks for most homes, sometimes longer for larger scopes. The first call leads to a walk-through and strategy meeting within a week. Inspection and prep planning take another week. Then the prep itself runs three to four weeks. Pricing and launch happen the week after prep is complete. The whole arc is sequenced so the home reaches the market at its best, not at its earliest.

For most scopes, yes. Light prep — paint, fixtures, cosmetic touch-ups — happens around your routine. Heavier work (flooring, full staging install) usually wants the home cleared for the final week or two before launch. We plan that calendar with you up front, so there are no surprises. If you need to be out of the home for any window, that’s built into the schedule before any vendor lifts a tool.

No. If the inspection comes back clean and the home photographs beautifully as-is, we strip the prep down to staging and presentation, sometimes even less. The Method is a sequence, not a package — the four acts (Strategize, Prepare, Price, Reveal) run on every listing, but the Prepare phase scales to the home. A move-in-ready property might spend two weeks in prep instead of six.

Every Compass agent has access to Concierge and the 3-Phase distribution engine. What’s different here is who executes the prep. On a GoWest listing, the design work is done by GoWest Home Design and the staging is done by GoWest Staging — sister companies that Steve runs. One owner, one calendar, one accountability for the work between the inspection and the launch. The 3-Phase rollout that follows is identical to what any Compass agent can offer; the home that goes into it is not.