home staging: Are You on the Offense or Defense? - 11/05/09 02:37 PM
Job losses, higher taxes, loss of jobs, H1N1, Iraq, war, hate ... fear, destruction and more. The news these days is not good. It is true, “When life gives you Lemons make Lemonade!!!” Within every cloud is a silver lining.
So perhaps you have lost your great paying job
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home staging: Like the Odometer Rolling over ... Perhaps Today I will top 11,000 AR Points - 08/05/09 12:30 PM
With this post @ 10,900+ points this post may just do it!
I am at a MAPS BOLD training in St Petersburg, Florida today. BOLD is a 7 week Training/Coaching class for Realtors held by MAPS out of Austin, TX. I love Real Estate Coaching even though I am not an
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home staging: How Staging Your Listings Can Make You More Money - 07/29/09 07:59 AM
Is is a proven fact that Staged Homes sell faster & for more money. According to StagedHomes.com -
In the current market Staged Homes are setting the bar for presentation in real estate AND selling first when compared to unprepared homes!
How does this make Realtors more money?
Fewer
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home staging: What is the right house for Staging? - 05/14/09 07:43 AM
To be absolutely honest - there is not a house on the market today that will not benefit from Professional Home Staging ... all but the ones already "professionally" Staged.
In my market I have met hundreds of Realtors that are ready to Stage, "When I get an appropriate property." What?
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home staging: Home Staging with House Sitting - What a Match!! - 04/07/09 01:59 PM
Selling Edge Home Staging Announces
House Sitting comes to Tampa Bay- a WIN/WIN!
Tampa Bay, Florida - April 7, 2009 - Selling Edge Home Staging is proud to announce they are the Staging Company for the new innovative, forward thinking Professional Home Sitters, Inc.
Professional Home Sitters provides house sitting services
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home staging: The Seller's Market within this Buyers Market - 03/21/09 05:06 AM
Yesterday one of my Realtors called to tell me that another of my Staged properties was in contract!! Wonderful! This one is such a sweet story ...
THE CONTRACT IS FOR 50K - YES - $50,000 OVER ASKING PRICE
During one of my MAPS Coaching Calls with Tony DiCello, Director of
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home staging: Production Bringing Results - 03/21/09 04:55 AM
2009 is proving to be my best year in business. I'm still feeling the growing pains and want a part time assistant in the worst way ... BUT ... I want a viable, healthy company more! I shall wait to get an assistant. The phone has been ringing with Realtors wanting
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home staging: Bigger & Better Ideas - Got Any? - 03/08/09 03:01 PM
Some of the best ideas come to me while I am drifting in & out of sleep. You? As I am continually trying to better my business, my services, save time and invent short cuts; I came up with the next thing I want to try.
IDEA - Garbage cans on
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home staging: How Many Hats Are You Wearing? - 02/15/09 04:00 PM
How many hats can a Real Estate Professional wear? When is customer service compromised?
In this economy we are all trying to survive; we are all trying to invent new ways to make a buck. In the Real Estate Industry many professions are involved -
Realtor
Broker
Appraiser
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home staging: Shameless Promoting - I'll buy you lunch!! - 01/25/09 11:11 AM
Let's be honest here - we all are on Active Rain to connect with other professionals in our industry; keep up with the latest BUZZ and (of course) gain business!! I have learned so much and enjoyed every minute of the experience. Its almost as much fun as Home Staging
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home staging: Are you caught up? - 01/02/09 07:54 PM
It's only December 15th, right? I mean I just got the tree up and I am not ready for 2009 to be here ... it cannot be January already. YIKES!! It is!
I have been stuck in this office today (as I put off projects until next week) doing end of the
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home staging: May Your Christmas Be Bright ... - 12/24/08 05:40 AM
Today I made Active Rain the first thing I do instead of the last thing I think about before I drift off to sleep ...
I have been so busy! My Staging business is taking off resulting in no time to prepare for Christmas. I have been running like road
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home staging: Sales, Business, Opportunites Maximized Because of a Positive Attitude - 12/05/08 07:54 AM
It's has been an amazing week for me!! Crazy, busy productive!! I was gone most of Thanksgiving week and have been playing catch up this week because of it. My schedule was booked back to back. Today is the first time I have had to myself to get online and do
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home staging: WHEN IS A "SHORT SALE" NOT A short SALE" Belle Harbor - Clearwater Beach, FL - SOLD FORTY FIVE DAYS after Professional Staging - 11/12/08 06:03 AM
Why - a SHORT SALE sells in the shortest amount of time while a short SALE sells under the loan amount on said property!! The following was a TRUE SHORT SALE!!
I recently Staged a vacant condominum @ Belle Harbor; Clearwater Beach, Florida. My friend Jeanne Warner, ASPM, IAHSP assisted. We Staged using
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home staging: I want to blow up the blow ups ... - 11/06/08 05:40 AM
Home Staging Professionals ...
I know it's common to use blow up beds in Stagings ... what do you do? I stopped using them about a year ago because they would not stay inflated! I know that you have to go back ever 7-10 days to check them; that's fine ...
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home staging: Are you a Piler or a Filer? - 10/31/08 02:21 PM
In my working life there is no worse task than filing. That dreaded filing! On a good day/week/month I avoid it like the plague! Today I have to face the mess I call my desk - OMG - it looks like this ---
please support me in my clean up efforts -
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home staging: Did You Miss Me? - 10/16/08 07:36 PM
One time when my youngest son Alex was a little boy with his Grandma he turned to her and say, "Hey Grandma, did you miss me?"
She said, "Well, no honey you have been right here all the time."
Alex retorted, "No I haven't I went to Martha's Vineyard on the ferry
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home staging: For the Love of Florida - 09/18/08 07:54 AM
Monday I had an exhausting - wonderful day Staging! I helped another ASPM Jeanne Warner on one of her projects. It is a large home in Sarasota on a golf course - very nice - well appointed. Jeanne always gives me the bath rooms to do - there were FIVE. These
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home staging: Never Let A Home Stager Speak to Your Client ... really? - 09/10/08 04:55 PM
Of late some of my Home Staging Projects have not moved forward as the Realtor wants to (and does) handle the communication with the Sellers without me. I just never know how Home Staging is presented or what the Sellers objections are.
The Realtor gets my proposal and "passes" it on to
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home staging: Home Staging Success - $1.6 MILL home under contract in 10 Days - 09/07/08 06:30 AM
Greetings,
I love this business!! I love helping in the sale process! This year a Realtor approached me to Stage a 7000+ home; it was over 2 decades old. The kitchen was amazing, the flow good but the bathrooms needed updating. This house had everything - beautiful sprawling property, 5 bed, 5 bath,
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