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real estate home staging: Staging Advice - Preparing your Schaumburg Home to Sell, Phase 3 - 09/28/11 10:56 AM
Is your home ready for it's internet debut? Staging is all about getting your home ready to be seen by all the interested buyers on the internet. So your home better be ready for it's first photo shoot!In this 3rd phase of my Stage-apalooza Series we will talk about how your home is perceived on-line as well as with initial curb appeal.Most professionals in our business agree that you only have 90 seconds to make a good first impression. That's not much time by anyone's standards. In fact, pictures of your home are so important these days I've decided to include
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real estate home staging: 10 Home Staging Tips to Make Your House Look like a Model Home - 06/06/10 12:58 PM
Can't go wrong with 10 more Home Staging Tips from an area stager that been on HGTV, Julea Joseph. Keep all these important tips in mind when getting your home ready to sell. Via Julea Joseph, Interior Stylist (Reinventing Space): What is it about Model homes that make them so appealing? Is it the freshness of all new; is it the sassy paint colors, the perfectly placed furniture, art and accessories or the beautiful groomed backyard that makes you want to plop right down on that comfy club chair, or light the grill on the patio? Well.... Yes to all the
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real estate home staging: The Top 20 Tacky Staging Techniques - 05/24/10 11:46 AM
Sellers Advice here! The Top 20 Tacky Staging Techniques will give you some great ideas on what not to do. If it looks phony or contrived - get rid of it. Plastic plants - plant them firmly in your recycle bin. Wine bottles near the whirlpool? It's not the Sybaris (only in Chicagoland) folks. The picture below looks like someone put a rose thru a shredder. How romantic! It's making me swoon. Angela Voss a stager from Washington gives you these great suggestions on how not to make yourself the laughing stock of the real estate community! We take pictures of all this
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real estate home staging: Staging Advice - Seller fesses up about ugly wallpaper! - 12/30/09 02:29 PM
Seller fesses up about ugly kitchen wallpaper ....... Yes, it's true so I wanted to document it here for all to see! A seller of one of my listings actually said something that Realtors® don't hear every day! Yes, the house looks soooo much better without the country blue 90's wallpaper. I should have done it long ago, it looks soooo great! You were right Lyn, it freshens up the whole kitchen. Everything looks better!This is where my mouth dropped open as I was stunned! Could it be that a seller actually took my advice and is happy with the staging
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real estate home staging: If I Sound Redundant, It's Because You Are Not Listening - 10/05/09 06:52 PM
Staging, Selling Advice, Clean up your house! It seems that this is the most talked about subject when selling your home. The reason I picked this post is because it's true! Buyers don't want to look at all the 'stuff' cluttering up your home! They don't care how you live! Pig pen, pig stye as they say in the Midwest is not the optimum look I'm personally going for when showing or listing a home! Here's another post I've recently done on the same subject - It Better Shine! So hope you enjoy this post from JL Boney in Columbia South Carolina.
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real estate home staging: Sellers - Unwrap your walls and reveal the gift to your buyers - 09/06/09 04:14 PM
Well here's me offering up more invaluable advice on selling your home and getting your home ready for the market place! This post is from a very savvy stager in Texas, Karen Otto, that you should take very seriously. Here's the real truth that I want to share with you - NO ONE LIKES YOUR WALLPAPER. You probably don't even like it anymore so why should a new buyer? It's 15 years old and out of style, why would a new buyer like it? No one I have ever showed a home too has said, Wow Lyn, the wallpaper is great! Most
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real estate home staging: Two Important Approaches to Selling Real Estate That Will Sell Homes - 09/03/09 02:53 PM
This post is from Tina Parker an author from Canada and Staging Expert. Lately when showing homes I AM AMAZED at the stuff that I see. There is a difference between selling your home and living in it let's not confuse that. I can't really describe what I'm seeing but it is totally unpopular and unacceptable with today's buyers. This is Tina's take on what buyers want in their new home. If you want to sell your home, better heed the advice. I know I've said it over and over again like a 'broken record' (or is it scratched CD?) And by
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real estate home staging: Let's talk about Curb Appeal - Lyn Sims (847)230-7324 Schaumburg Area Homes - RE/MAX Suburban - 09/18/08 04:06 PM
Setting the Stage Article Lyn Sims at RE/MAX Suburban (847)230-7324 Schaumburg, Hoffman Estates, Elk Grove Village, Roselle, Medinah, Itasca, Bloomingdale, Bartlett, Hanover Park, Streamwood, Elgin, South Elgin, St. Charles.
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Lyn Sims - Schaumburg Homes
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