pasadena: Cleaning For A Reason - Helping Women With Cancer
- 05/07/10 03:06 AM
I just read this blog post by Jay Schmidt, a Prudential Realtor in Gettysburg, PA, titled Cleaning for a Reason - Helping Women Undergoing Cancer Treatment. His post briefly discussed an organization called Cleaning For A Reason.Their tag line is "We focus on your home so you can focus on your health (TM)".
Here's a blurb from the site:
"Making A Difference One Home At A TimeTM. Fighting cancer is difficult enough, but living with it is even tougher - and that's where the Cleaning for A Reason Foundation steps in. This nonprofit offers free professional housecleaning, and maid services … (13 comments)
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pasadena: Stage Your Bedroom With Feng Shui - Start 2009 Right!
- 01/01/09 06:16 AM
Stage your Bedroom with Feng Shui - Start 2009 Right! Welcome better sleep, better health and positive changes in the bedroom with Feng Shui. With the New Year approaching, now is the perfect time to invite positive change into your life. Recommendations about Feng Shui remedies will vary from school to school and practitioner to practitioner. Often the focus is on compass direction, which may necessitate moving the bedroom to another part of the house. Since most of us cannot afford to move our bedroom or don't have the extra space, here are some tips to get your bedroom in top Feng Shui … (37 comments)
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pasadena: 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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pasadena: 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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pasadena: 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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pasadena: 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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pasadena: 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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pasadena: 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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pasadena: 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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pasadena: What I have learned from my Happy Little Peach Tree.
- 05/27/07 06:44 AM
I am blessed to be able to live and work in Pasadena, CA, home to the Rose Parade, The Tournament of Roses Rose Bowl, the Norton Simon Museum and 2 of the world's greatest flea markets, the Rose Bowl Flea Market (every second Sunday of the month) and Pasadena City College Flea Market (the first Sunday of every month). Pasadena is also a veritable Garden of Eden. Everything grows here, and grows well. Too well if you are not careful.
Four years ago I planted a peach tree in my yard. Yes, even peaches grow here (the low chill varieties). My peach … (7 comments)
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pasadena: How Do You Pre-Qualify Potential Clients?
- 04/06/07 04:29 AM
As a Home Stager and Interior Designer and owner of Moving Mountains Design, I get many phone calls on a daily basis from potential clients. I offer a free consultation so that potential clients can put a face with a name, so I can show my portfolio and so I can get a handle on the scope of work. Before I am willing to spend my valuable time going out to a job site for free, I try to pre-qualify potential clients by asking them a number of questions and giving them an idea of what the services they are requesting … (27 comments)
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I just read this blog post by Jay Schmidt, a Prudential Realtor in Gettysburg, PA, titled Cleaning for a Reason - Helping Women Undergoing Cancer Treatment. His post briefly discussed an organization called Cleaning For A Reason.Their tag line is "We focus on your home so you can focus on your health (TM)".
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