As a Professional Home Stager, home staging consulting is something I do for clients on a regular basis. In recent weeks I have been reminded that there really are some secrets sellers should be keeping from buyers while selling a home. And I’m not talking about the structural integrity of the...
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As a Professional Home Stager I am always looking for ways to educating my clients on what I do. I've had the opportunity to use this term " aesthetic inspector " to describe in another way what we as Professional Home Stagers do. Home Stagers may be compared to home inspectors in how we...
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If you're a fan of those HGTV Shows like Designed to Sell you know the drill. Generally they start the show off with a Realtor (not the seller's agent though an independent third party) walking through the home seller's house to "critique" the place . The sellers are next door at...
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Hum. That question, referring to the furniture and decor proposed for use in a vacant property , was posed to me this week by a client who has never worked with a home stager before . Although I've never been asked this question directly before, I could relate. I'm sure others have thought to...
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Home sellers, today's home buyer is in a different league. With the Internet, virtual tours and great digital photos that are available, a buyer with access to the Internet, truly does not need to leave the comfort of their home in order to decide whether or not to see a property they may be interested...
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Wallpaper, wallpaper on the wall are you the fairest of them all? Love it or hate it or have no opinion of it, most Professional Home Stagers do address the issue. It comes, it goes, it's in fashion it's not. It's neat, it's versatile, it's dated, it's faded, out, in - whatever...
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Let me first say, we are not moving . At least not this month. But we are re carpeting our 2nd floor and replacing our white wooden stair balusters for our enjoyment as well as the future return on investment. Why did we really want to do this? Heck, we want to enjoy the upgrades now while we live in...
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Is your Realtor working to sell your property now? Does your Realtor have a website? A blog page? Is your property listed on active rain, Zillow, Trulia, Craigslist, realtor.com with enhancements? The most important thing as a seller you will do is price your property. But price alone won't cut it...
Realtors rarely think about what they do every minute of every day. I never counted the steps I take from listing presentation to closing. That's my job. But an article a few years back caused me to stop and take note. Having been in the business for 30 plus years I don't think about the many...
I’m sure you’ve heard that old adage, you get what you pay for. That couldn’t be more true than in the real estate profession. As an experienced agent of 30 plus years I know the business forward and backward. I am rarely hit with a problem that I haven’t experienced. My knowledge of the business benefits...