Theresa Minichiello's (stagerightsellright) Blog

By: Theresa Minichiello, ASP, ASPM       Stage Right! Home Staging, LLC, Wilmington, DE It seems as though more and more I am getting an abundance of builders and investors interested in professional Home Staging. They are using Staging to aggressively market new construction/rehabs and up their ...

Every year, AVID Ratings Co., a firm that provides surveys and employee training to home builders across the United States and Canada, conducts a survey of home buyer preferences. Here are a few of the hot home features they've found are absolute must haves when buying a new home in today's marke...

by Theresa A. Minichiello, ASP, ASPM Stage Right Home Staging, LLC Wilmington Hockessin, Delaware   What is "virtual home staging," you ask? Well, after just hearing about this staging method myself, I just had to find out!  Hey, I'm a computer savvy chick...I wanted in on VIRTUAL Staging! So, af...

Hi to all again! It's been so long since I've had the opportunity to blog and am very happy to be back! The week of June 9th I travelled to Alexandria, Virginia and spent 60 hours in class training with Barb Schwarz herself for my continuing education. The result? I have received my Accredited St...

I recently received a phone call from a realtor for whom I had Staged, at that point, 8 vacant listings. It began as usual, I met him at the property, took photos, emailed him the estimate, then waited. About a week later, I received a voice mail message from him mumbling something about "tried a...

HI TO ALL - Here it is...Sunday...the day to rest...yeah, right! More like the day of Open Houses and Thunderstorms! Genuine empathy to all my Realtor friends that had to endure a very long and quiet open house today in Delaware and the surrounding areas. If the clouds weren't pouring rain, well ...

Well...tomorrow is the Board of Realtors golf outing and they are calling for rain...I have a canopy for my table, perhaps that will lure the Realtors over to imbibe in the liquor plying. Believe me, my Staging Quotes look much cuter after a coupla stiff ones...(At least I've been told that's how...

Hi to all! Happy to be on ActiveRain -- this is my inaugural blog and I hope you all enjoy... Well, the first exciting thing I have to share is that in the past week I have staged 5 vacants, and before i was through with the 5th -- the first 3 had contracts! Proud to say we've converted one more ...