We recently staged an Atlanta Buckehead Condo on the 20th floor with a nice view. The unit had been on the market for some time and had hardly any showings. After they contacted our Atlanta Home Staging Company and we finished staging the property it got 10 showings in one week and a contract :-)...
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When talking to a client about "Staging for Selling" in the Metro Atlanta area, this information posted by my staging colleague Linda Pufford is valuable to use.
When your home goes on the market you want it to be the best looking product for the best price, because you never get a second chance to make a great first impression.
With 87% of today's savvy buyers searching on the internet to find a home you will want your photos to look great and stand out. You want your home to be:
IMPRESSIVE
IMPACTFUL
INSPIRING
According to the statistics on Stagedhomes.com 94.8 percent of ASP/ASPM Staged homes sell on average in 37 days or less versus 182 days on market for non-staged homes.
So if you are listing and selling your home in today's market you want to stand out so your home will sell faster and for more money!
How does selling your home faster translate into $$$ and time to you? Do you want your home to set there or move quickly?
Staging your home is always less than your first price reduction. A 300k house at a 5% price reduction would be 15k a 10% price reduction would be 30k. Stage your home to get the best first impression.
Stage with Divine Style is here to help you make a lasting impression! So let our Creative Team help your home to look:
IMPRESSIVE
IMPACTFUL
INSPIRING
Detail your home (your largest investment) like you would detail your car if you were selling it. If you want your home to Shine and Sell, detail now with Stage with Divine Style. Call us at 877.267.4649. We are dedicated to making your life easier and assisting you in realizing your dreams.
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Design2Sell offers Home Selling Renovation Consultations and Home Staging Services in the Atlanta area. Below a recent transformation of an Investor property in College Park.
This home features gorgeous hardwood floors, 2 decks with views of the large backyard, one car garage. Only Minutes to Woodward Academy, and walking distance to nice restaurants and shops.
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There is always something happening in Smyrna :-).
If you love Music and Art, this Event is for you!
The Rev Fest is a one day music and arts festival featuring several local artists and musicians. The event will be on Saturday, October 10th, in the front and side parking lots at Rev Coffee. The motivation behind Rev Fest is a merging of artists, musicians, and businesses in the Smyrna, and surrounding, community.
The festivities will kick off at 10:00am. A variety of artists will have booths set up for viewing their work. Please see below for a list of all participating artists coming to Rev Fest.
For More information please click on the link below
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Join us along with Barb Schwarz -best selling author, award winning professional speaker, professional real estate broker, and Creator of Home Staging® concept - and our guest real estate panel for this special evening event and thought provoking discussion!
DATE: October 22nd, 2009
TIME: 6:30PM
LOCATION: 1420 Room, Dunwoody Village, Atlanta, GA, 30338
Click link below for more Information and to Register
This Event is BY INVITATION ONLY, please contact me
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A great opportunity for all Art and Museum Lovers! Nine metro Atlanta museums and historic sites will participate by opening their doors gratis to visitors. In addition the puppetry center offers some half-price family-friendly options
ATLANTA:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s
The Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta;
The Hammonds House
The Museum of Design Atlanta
Atlanta; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Marietta:
The Marietta Museum of History
Roswell:
Archibald Smith Plantation Home, Roswell
Barrington Hall, Roswell
Bulloch Hall Roswell
Museum Day 2009 has 1,200 museums in all 50 states participating To print out an admission card (good for two people) and see a complete list of participants, go to
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Little things can have a big impact and it can be done in different ways. Starting with small things, like a written Thank You card to bigger once like volunteering with your customer at his/her preferred charity event. There are lots of ways to create an emotional bond.
Something imbedded into your way of doing business, staying true to your values and what you as a person stand for. I always try to listen closely, ask some open questions to learn more about my customers, there likings and preferences, something they are passionate about, something which might make them laugh, something they simply enjoy.
The same holds true with my friends. I keep a like/love list and surprise them with something they have said or mentioned one time and surprise them at a time when it is not expected (I am awful with birthdays). Showing appreciation can be done in so many ways and it makes your customer feel special...
This little wonderful short video is a great example, it touched my heart....
I would LOVE to hear from you and your way of creating "Special Memories" for your clients....
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Creating some buzz with a new name :-) "The Taste of Smyrna" is now called "Festival of Delectable". Let's hope for some fun in the sun. Please come hungry. More than 30 restaurants will offer there mouthwatering food and you can purchase samples from 50 cents to $ 4.
A nice event for the whole family, meet some neighbors, listen to the music, inflatables for kids, and more Add this is not there is some fun for the ear's as well, Music will be played and for the youngsters, there are inflatables.
Please visit this Saturday September 19th from 11AM to 8PM
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Maureen Bray, Home Stager Portland OR, shared an interesting blog today. An imaginary letter to a seller about a property in need for staging, a proposal made, not used, a property sitting on the market and ending up with a FOR RENT sign after a 50K price reduction...
I thought it is worth to share this blog to get some additional opinion's and feedback. I would be interested to learn some out of the box thinking to overcome some of the barriers of writing a check for staging, specifically if it is needed, and I am not talking about a seller who can not afford to pay for it.
You contacted my company 3 months ago and requesteda staging proposal for your home. It's in a premier Portland neighborhood and you said you knew it needed some helpbefore listing. You'd already bought another home and were packing up your things to move out in a few days.
When I arrived to view your home, it was surprising to see a huge pool table in your dining room! We laughed together about that and also the long heavy dark velvet drapes! Your home needed major cleaning and packing up of many small items. I knew we could help you!
We'd be able to work with most of your furniture that you'd be leaving behind, and we'd provide the necessary missing pieces as well as accessories, art, trees & plants, etc. as needed. We discussed that if we were going to work together, I'd give you a detailed list that would include which furniture pieces to leave behind as well as some easy cosmetic improvements that you could do yourself.
You told me that your listing agent did not believe in home staging. I was surprised to hear this, because I thought that your home was one of the better candidates for staging that I've seen this year, but I kept my opinion to myself. I told you that our company keeps track of our staging statistics, and we're proud of them. I knew we could help you!
Later that day I emailed you a very cost-effective proposal that included staging your home using your furniture and providing accessories and other items from our inventory. We'd stage your home to make it appealing to your target buyer. Our proposal also included quality digital photos for the online listing ... critical in today's challenging market. I knew we could help you!
Later, I was disappointed that you decided not to stage your home. Looking at the online listing, it was a shock to see the photos of your home! They're dark, out of focus, crooked, and don't even show the best features of your home. I won't show them here because that wouldn't be discreet, but I noticed the heavy velvet drapes are still there, and your furniture is not in the right position to showcase the space. The photos are about the worst I've ever seen. I knew we could have helped you!
After 6 weeks on the market I noticed that you took a $30,000 price reduction! After another 4 weeks, I saw that your price had now dropped $50,000! Hmmm ... your agent discouraged you from staging (even though you would have paid for it) but has no problem recommending that you drop your price by $50K?
Wow! Staging your home with a professional staging company would have cost a tiny fraction of your first price reduction -- but you decided to drop your price by $50,000 instead. How does that make sense from a financial viewpoint?
The sad thing is, today I drove by your home again on my way to staging one of your neighbor's homes, and saw the new sign addition now hanging from your "For Sale" sign ...
Mr. Seller ~ We really did try to help you! I wish we could have.
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Ok, we all have our preferences, every Designer has his/her particular style, something signing every project like a signature on a painting.
I admit, I love to work with "young or young at heart professionals", I love open floor plans and a more modern, but cosy admbiente, In Re-Design projects I love to mix old and new and I love to work with natural pieces, like sticks.
Little things can make a big difference. A customers smile combined with an appreciation email is such a great Thank you!
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Creating some buzz with a new name :-) "The Taste of Smyrna" is now called "Festival of Delectable". Let's hope for some fun in the sun. Please come hungry. More than 30 restaurants will offer there mouthwatering food and you can purchase samples from 50 cents to $ 4.
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