Home Staging--An extreme sport? I live in Upstate New York and we get a lot of snow--in fact January was just one big snowstorm! Needless to say, it makes staging an extreme sport--bringing in boxes of accessories while climbing over hardened snowdrifts, negotiating icy steps and banging open fr
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01/23/2011
Are you a real estate agent who is uncomfortable recommending home staging to your clients? Suggesting home staging to your clients makes many real estate agents very uncomfortable. Of course there are those agents that regularly suggest staging and have no problem bringing up the topic at the li
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01/21/2011
Thanks Donna for always sharing the latest facts and figures on home staging!. I've been handing out the 2010 findings in my home stager classes for Realtors and it's helpful to know that there are more recent numbers on the benefits of properly preparing your house for sale. I am not a statistic
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01/19/2011
Is paying for a home staging consultation on your 2011 list of ways to spice up your listing presentation? It should be if you want to set yourself apart from the other Realtors out there. Of course if you are the only game in town then you don't need too many tools in your tool kit. A posting on
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01/12/2011
I really enjoyed this blog post. Most people think that staging is glamorous but it is often quite the opposite. I can't tell you how many walkways I've shoveled anticipating the moving truck's arrival. Now I do ask the homeowner to put the AC on in the summer--it is much easier to be creative wh
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01/10/2011
Hi everyone---I didn't fall off the blogging train, I just hopped onto Steven Graham's Acela Express by becoming a Rainmaker! I guess this is what they mean when they say you take two steps backwards before moving forward! I had no idea that there would be so much to writing a blog post--OK, corr
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01/07/2011
Virginia Gardner posted this blog on ActiveRain regarding CLUE reports. I had no idea that these types of reports existed but I'm not surprised. Whether we like it or not, there is no longer any such thing as privacy.I started this post with the intention of writing about CLUE reports, and I will
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01/07/2011
