home staging: Are You Trying to Sell the "Dreaded" Vanilla Box? - 07/22/08 05:12 PM
There is no denying that real estate marketplace is in a major depression. Nothing seems to drive home that grim point more then a quick drive through any neighborhood, for placed in the front yards of so many homes is a vast array of For Sale signs. But while a sign … (20 comments)
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home staging: Not All Bananas in the Bunch are Ripe and Ready - 05/01/08 07:07 AM
So my home selling pets, would you like to pick a home stager to regularly work with, but are not sure which in the bunch to hire? Plus does it seem as if daily there are more and more staging bananas out there to pick from? Well, you are right; it can be a … (36 comments)
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home staging: First Impression-ist Masterpieces Now Hang in the Active Rain Gallery - 04/14/08 11:05 AM
Last week something new began to be seen in the great hallowed halls of Active Rain. Beautiful blog masterpieces started to appear. Active Rain gave to us all another great new improvement to help us all better differentiate and further brand ourselves through our blogs. We now all have the access to a … (58 comments)
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home staging: I FINALLY Gots Me a Purdy Puddle... in the Rain - 04/11/08 03:09 PM
The ONLY problem I have EVER had about Active Rain was it is UGLY. YUP UGLY and I have not been afraid to let the Rain Gods (Matt Heaton and Johnathon Washburn) know how I felt.
But there is a saying, "you only get to complain if you are willing to provide a solution." So … (32 comments)
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home staging: Wall Steet Journal Blogger is Clueless about Home Staging - 04/09/08 07:32 PM
Boy this is timely... considering all I have been flapping about here in the Rain.
I just came across this article on the Wall Street Journal's website.
"The Allure of the Fruit Bowl: Home Staging ‘Twiddles' With a Buyer's Mind"
It reinforces the fact that Realtors don't understand what we do. They don't get … (19 comments)
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home staging: Ruffled Feathers makes for some Good Flapping in the Rain - 04/09/08 09:20 AM
When Active Rain "works" it does something quite wonderful. It grows, and expands, and teaches, and challenges. It creates dialogue in places and spaces where there was none.
I think sometimes we forget that we all here are a community. An ever growing community, but a community non the less. In the … (20 comments)
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home staging: Is Your Ignorance Bliss or a Missed Opportunity? - 04/08/08 09:39 AM
I have been writing here on Active Rain for nearly 2 years now and have seen the presence of home stagers explode here. Even though we share much of ourselves to this great community, in general it AMAZES me how ignored, snubbed and misunderstood our message has been by the overall Realtor … (47 comments)
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home staging: Best Blog EVER Finally Hits Its Target... of ONE - 04/02/08 06:39 AM
Daily hundreds and hundreds of bloggers post here on Active Rain... all with the hopes that what we write connects to an audience. What makes blogging on AR uniquely different from other blog platforms is the fact that because it is a social network, posting here first reachs a tighter member audience made up of … (15 comments)
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home staging: Chipping Away at the "PRICE IS KING" Myth Too Many Realtors Rely On - 03/31/08 04:22 PM
I hate to break some Realtor's chips... but for many of you the belief you have, regarding the role pricing plays in real estate sales, is not cracked up to what it could be. Believe it or not there is a simple yet profound parallel lesson that can be learned from how Lay's … (56 comments)
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home staging: Successful Selling in an Ugly Market Ain’t Always Pretty! - 03/27/08 11:34 AM
Even though we live in a consumer society, it's an odd fact that home sellers typically do not view their property as a product for sale in a marketplace. Because this is so, a home's sale often languishes. But this need not be the case. Basic marketing teaches us that how … (30 comments)
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home staging: "OOPS" goes the Staging! - 03/03/08 11:13 AM
From the time we were small kids we were taught that there is a difference between what is good & bad and what is right & wrong. While those FIRST lessons of life had to do with basic relationship skills and behaviors, as we got older we gained awareness of other good & bad, right & wrong rules that applied to … (43 comments)
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home staging: A Tale of 2 Stages - 02/26/08 11:58 AM
For home sellers it is the best of times, it is the worst of times, it is the age of wise choices, it is the age of foolish decisions, it is the age of sales success and the age of missed opportunities.In short, now is an age where sellers are finally … (43 comments)
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home staging: Where is that Staging Waldo? - 01/16/08 10:03 AM
Many of you have emailed wondering just where the heck I have been for the last month. Well, I really have no better explanation than to say that I have been busy "working" on many things I needed to do to succeed in a market that has thrust upon us all new challenges. While … (77 comments)
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home staging: Staging that STARTS on a BANG... But ENDS with an OINK - 12/05/07 06:08 AM
Without a doubt, home staging can help sell a property. Even in this slower market, with so many home sellers having postive results using the services of an expirienced home stager, it is no surprise to find that time and again the blogging stagers here on Active Rain write posts to share their stories of the many wonderful success they have created.
So as … (17 comments)
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home staging: The Stage It Forward Banner Unfolds and Rises... - 12/01/07 10:51 AM
Jackie Peraza recently wrote a good post entitled Banner's, Bloggers and Staging that I encourage you to read. In is she asks an important question about Stage It Forward and what is happeing under its "banner". I've learned that if one person is thinking thoughts like this... others are too. Question like this need to be asked … (14 comments)
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home staging: Jennie Connected the Dot... Now I am Gonna Paint the Picture! - 11/29/07 11:10 AM
While I have learned much from fellow members here on Active Rain and in Stage It Forward... I have to admit there are some member's posts I follow more regularly. What they have to say about Home Staging and the Home Staging Industry time and again captures my attention. So recently when Jennie Norris, a … (24 comments)
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home staging: Is ROCK & ROLL "Where Its At" for Home Staging? - 11/26/07 07:50 AM
A winter's drive over the holiday weekend gave me a chance to reflect on all that I see going on in our industry. As I stand back and look WHO we are and WHERE we are... the more I am sure this industry is not quite YET ready to handle the BIG vision so many of us want. I … (25 comments)
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home staging: A Thankful Message for all our "Colors" - 11/21/07 07:02 AM
Oddly, of all weeks, I stumbled on a old song... we all have heard before.
But sometimes an "old" song can sound new.
In light of recent Home Staging Industry issues and dialogue... this song holds a hope-filled message that seems to fit our needs, wishes and dreams. … (23 comments)
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home staging: It's CLEAR... 21 SIF RoundTables Across North America Are Going to REFRESH Our Industry! - 11/17/07 04:16 PM
Yesterday both Chicago and Manhattan successfully held their respective Stage It Forward (SIF) ROUNDTABLE discussions.
Earlier today I spoke with Val Allocco who was the facilitator for in Manhattan. Val said that their group had about 15 attendees at the luncheon sponsored by American Furniture Rental. (THANK YOU AFR) Val will share her own sparkling account of the 3 … (26 comments)
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home staging: STATISTICAL VERIFIABILITY... Key in Our Crawl Toward Professional Recognition & Acceptance - 11/07/07 09:53 AM
On Monday I introduced SIF Quarterly Qwik Staging Stats (QSTAT) program to the stagers here on ActiveRain, and yesterday I introduced the concept to the Realtor community in a post called REALTORS... Will Staging Stats Crack Your Nuts?. While that post was fortunate to be FEATURED on the main page in the "big" Active Rain... I have … (19 comments)
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