fort lauderdale: Realtor Association Endorses The Need For Staging When Selling Real Estate - Get The Brochure - 11/01/08 08:38 AM
The Realtor Association finally gets behind the need to stage your home for sale, and has produced offical collateral for their real estate agents to use when communicating the need for home staging.
For more details on how to get the offical brochure, click here. They cost $39 for 100 brochures. … (6 comments)

fort lauderdale: WANTED: South Florida Property for Feng Shui and Redesign TV Show! - 09/03/08 08:02 PM

 
Open Door Staging, Inc. has been asked by a South Florida television network to participate in a fun and exciting feature segment on Feng Shui and interior redesign.
 
 
The TV segment will focus on how the art of Feng Shui can help a home owner or tenant … (1 comments)

fort lauderdale: Professional Organizing Tips for your home or business - 08/14/08 02:53 PM

What is Clutter? Clutter is often defined as a disorderly heap, assemblage or simply litter.
Clutter eats equity Clutter is difficult to part with Clutter is truly our “stuff”…our knickknacks our magazines we will one day read. Removing clutter enhances the value of your home and life at the same … (0 comments)

fort lauderdale: Nadine Gross, Feng Shui Master, joins the Open Door Staging team. - 08/12/08 11:30 AM
We are delighted to welcome Nadine Gross, Feng Shui Master to the Open Door Staging team.
As we continue to develop and present solutions to our customers, Feng Shui is an important element for a growing section of sellers and buyers.  Our customers expect the best, and we aim to deliver, … (2 comments)

fort lauderdale: RESA South Florida Chapter Kick-Off Event - Win $200 from Cort Furniture Rental - 08/02/08 04:58 PM

It's here, the Home Staging association that connects you to local Realtors, The Real Estate Staging Association, South Florida Chapter
Home StagersYou Are Invited To Attend
The RESA South Florida Chapter Kick-Off MeetingAugust 14, 2008, 6-8 PMHosted by CORT Furniture Rental10000 Pines Blvd, Pembroke Pines, FL 33024
Wine and Cheese servedThere … (0 comments)

fort lauderdale: Exercise equipment snaps do not sell homes. - 05/14/08 09:27 AM
Keeping yourself physically fit and in shape is important and to be encouraged, but when selling your home, sellers should put the exercise equipment away.
We need visiting buyers to be able to see how they could live in the home, not how you live in your home.
Have a look at … (12 comments)

fort lauderdale: Meet The Newest Member Of The Open Door Staging Team. - 05/14/08 09:24 AM
We are excited to introduce the newest member of our Home Staging team.
 
Mary Nowak, AHS is an Accredited Home-Staging Specialist.
Mary has over 13 years experience in the home decor industry.
She is a professional organizer and space management consultant.
She has a Bachelor of Science in Human Development … (4 comments)

fort lauderdale: Home Staging is Marketing not Decorating. Stage your home, sell faster. - 04/11/08 07:18 AM
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fort lauderdale: Bad listing photographs - April 2008 - 04/06/08 08:45 PM
A listing flyer just arrived in my email box, forwarded on from a friend. There is nothing I can add to this one - the photographs snaps say it all. With all the information availble on the need to market listings in todays market, one wonders why we continue to see … (8 comments)

fort lauderdale: *** Is Home Staging a fad or another disruptive technology? *** - 03/13/08 08:12 PM
As a little background, a disruptive technology is something that 'disrupts' the status quo of the time, changes the current thinking, and eventually changes the market place for ever.
One of the best examples is the Ice Box / Refrigerator example.
To keep food refrigerated long ago, people put food in ice. Those … (14 comments)

fort lauderdale: ***Home Staging Pooey- It's ALL about Price*** Let's all dance the dinosaur - 03/13/08 06:27 PM
Time and time again, we hear real estate agents state state the long familiar refrain -"it's all about price" when referring to the key to selling a listing.
The real estate agents that make this broad statement are sucessfull and experienced long time agents, that are surprisingly often hearing about staging for the … (11 comments)

fort lauderdale: Staging and real estate stats - 2% of seller homes stand out and SOLD. - 03/05/08 03:21 PM
These are the real estate statistics as reported by the Realtor Association of Greater Fort Lauderdale for February 2008.
It is worth noting;
There are 12,000 homes for sale, with almost 381 homes sold per monthThere are 16,000 condos for sale, with almost 410 sold per month41% of those properties that … (0 comments)

fort lauderdale: Staged and SOLD - Downtown Las Olas, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Vacant 3 story town home transformed. - 02/27/08 07:23 AM
Downtown Las Olas, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 3 story town home transformed from vacant to Staged and SOLD!
This property had been on the market along with many others in the immediate vicinity. After being professionally staged, this property was the home that buyers wanted to view, and was the first property under … (10 comments)

fort lauderdale: Home Staging - The need to appeal to foreign buyers - 02/20/08 11:25 AM
Home staging is the art of transforming a home into a product for sale. 
When staging a property for sale, we need to ensure that we are staging to appeal to the correct buyer profile, rather than with what is in the warehouse.
This point is further driven home by the article … (4 comments)

fort lauderdale: How do you keep current with your local real estate market conditions? - 02/15/08 08:12 AM
As a professional home stager, staying current with the estate market is a requirement for success.
Real Estate Market knowledge, combined with the correct definition of the buyer profile (this will be in another post),and the ability to professionally stage a property, ensure home staging success.
Market knowledge is one of the suite of … (2 comments)

fort lauderdale: Home Staging Classes for Real Estate Agents - What is in it for you? - 02/13/08 12:41 PM
 
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fort lauderdale: Open Door Staging sponsors Fort Lauderdale Realtor event - 01/28/08 08:59 AM
Open Door Staging was a proud sponsor of the recent Realtor Association of Greater Fort Lauderdale After-Hours event.
Akanke Cadden (president of Open Door Staging, circled below), met with Realtors present to address their home staging inquiries.
The event was also attended by state representative, Martin Kiar, who spoke briefly on tax reform.
Open Door … (3 comments)

fort lauderdale: Real Estate agents can play the Price Reduction Game also. - 09/26/07 04:41 PM
 
As a followup to my post yesterday on how sellers can play the 'Price Reduction Game', I had left out a whole community of players that like to play also, so to make sure that everyone gets a mention, (I've updated the post to include the omitted players- real estate agents.)
Sell your … (5 comments)

fort lauderdale: POLL - how do you tell home sellers to put some effort into preparing their home for sale? - 09/14/07 08:01 PM
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fort lauderdale: bad mls photographs - the difference between 'snaps' and 'marketing photographs' - 08/27/07 07:00 PM
There is a difference between photographs and 'snaps' of your home.
Taking good marketing photographs of the home for sale should be one of the more straight forward tasks in a home selling marketing strategy.
As the majority of home buyers review properties online, before they decide to go visit a home. … (11 comments)

 
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