arcadia: Home Staging in Arcadia - Staged Cottage Sells Before The Sign Is Up!
- 08/09/08 04:07 AM
Arcadia home staging helps sell home on the evening of the first open house. The owner/agent didn't even have time to get the sign up!
After sitting on the market for several weeks, with no offers (not even low ball offers) the owner/agent decided to stage this cute cottage in hopes of getting it to sell. He had gotten one of our brochures from another house we had staged in the area, and the listing agent on that house sang our praises. (See, leaving your marketing materials in homes you stage does help drive more business)
Read Staged Home in Arcadia … (19 comments)
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arcadia: Los Angeles Area Stagers Featured in Los Angeles Times Article
- 03/14/08 05:23 PM
The Los Angeles Times is running a feature article in the Sunday Real Estate section on March 16. The article paints a very clear picture of how home staging helps sell homes, even in this volatile real estate market.
The article The Benefits of Staging a Home, written by Ann Brenoff, is available for viewing on-line.
Ann interviewed Connie Tebyani of Platinum Home Staging, and me. The article gives a very balanced view of how home staging works, and how it can benefit home sellers and real estate agents.
While this article will provide great promotional benefits for both Connie and myself, … (28 comments)
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arcadia: Rugs Make All the Difference
- 11/09/07 08:33 PM
We staged a very nice Mediterranean style home yesterday in Arcadia, CA. It looked great when we were finished, but something was missing. Rugs! The Persian rugs weren't part of my original contract, but the homeowner, Realtor and I all agreed that they were really necessary. Yes, the home had large expanses of beautiful Brazilian Cherry hardwood floors. But in this case, the hardwood floors were too much of a good thing and needed to be subdued a bit. I am truly a Persian rug junkie, and I use them wherever I am able, but I am still always amazed at the warmth … (64 comments)
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arcadia: Low Price and Location May Not Be Enough
- 11/04/07 05:19 AM
For years, the Real Estate mantra "The three most important things to consider when selling or buying a home" has been "Location. Location. Location". In recent months, when the real estate and mortgage industries began to implode, it had changed to "Low Price. Low Price. Low Price." Ultimately, in this very volatile market, this mantra is bound to change again to "Location. Price. Staging." and here is why:
The market is being flooded with hundreds of homes in good locations with realistic listing prices (we will exclude those homes with prices that have not been adjusted for current market realities). The competition to sell … (24 comments)
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arcadia: Staging Can Help Protect Your Nut(s)!
- 11/03/07 07:55 AM
Yes, you heard it here first, folks. Staging can help protect your nut(s).
We are, of course, talking about nut(s) as defined by Roget's New Millennium Theasaurus: a noun; a "posssession" and synonomous with "bankroll, capital, equity, estate, funds, goods, holdings, nest egg, reserve(s), resources, riches, stock, stake, valuables & wealth". Based upon that definition, we can also consider our home as all or part of our "nut(s)".
For many of us, our home is our most valuable asset and represents the largest chunk of our nut(s).
The Real Estate market is flooded right … (44 comments)
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arcadia: Staging Helps Sell Homes in Pasadena, CA
- 10/14/07 04:11 PM
I'll let the pictures speak for themselves:
Dining Room Before
Craftsman Dining Room After Staging by Moving Mountains Design. With a fresh new paint color and now clutter-free, all the beautiful original Craftsman details, like the built-in cabinets really stand out.
OK, here is the Master Bedroom before:
Sorry, I couldn't get into the bedroom to get a better angle. Somewhere in there is the bed that the homeowners were sleeping in!
And here is the Master Bedroom after staging:
This 1920's California Craftsman home located in Pasadena, CA sold in two weeks for the full asking price last month. Clearly, staging gave it an … (46 comments)
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arcadia: My First Real Estate Show!
- 09/23/07 05:06 AM
Here is my first attempt at creating a Real Estate Show. I created it using photos from a project I staged (The Big House) in June/July 2007. Please let me know what you think.
Also, here are three links to blogs I wrote about this project for additional information:
The Homeowner Raised the Listing Price $200,000 AFTER STAGING!!! (Members Only)
The Homeowner Only Got $80,000 More AFTER STAGING!
Before & After Pics of "The Big House"
Moving Mountains Design is a full service Home Staging and Interior Design company, located in Pasadena, California. We specialize in high end vacant homes in Los Angeles, the San … (35 comments)
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arcadia: The Homeowner Only Got $80,000 More AFTER STAGING!
- 07/15/07 02:19 PM
In a recent blog The Homeowner Raised the Listing Price $200,000 AFTER STAGING!!! I wrote that the homeowner was so excited after we staged his home that he raised the listing price by $200,000.00 from $2.78 million to $2.98 million. Well, the home has sold already and escrow has closed! The homeowner did not get the original $200,000.00 bump he had hoped for after staging, but he did get an additional $80,000.00 he would not have gotten if he hadn't staged the house. We staged the home on June 15, 16, & 17. The one and only open house (Realtors Caravan) was held … (40 comments)
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arcadia: I Wish the Realtor Called Me BEFORE the $80,000 Price Reduction!
- 07/15/07 01:44 PM
Last week I was called to stage a vacant home that had been on the market for 8 weeks with no offers. The home was listed previously at $779,000. It is in a very good location, in Woodland Hills, CA, but the home has some "issues" and despite holding open houses every weekend since it was listed, they haven't gotten a nibble. At some point, before they hired me, they decided to reduce the price by $79,000 to $700,000.
While the house has a good location on it's side, it didn't show well vacant because of a funky layout and undefined spaces. … (20 comments)
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Arcadia home staging helps sell home on the evening of the first open house. The owner/agent didn't even have time to get the sign up!
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