prepare a home to sell: Staging Gives Purpose to Awkward Spaces - 06/01/07 09:57 AM
Loft. . .den/bedroom. . .multipurpose room. . .bonus room. . .nook. Realtors use a myriad of creative phrases to describe awkward and questionable spaces. They know that buyers have a difficult time visualizing uses for all of the rooms in a house, especially those that have an unusual placement or configuration. I recently completed staging a vacant home that had one of those rooms that makes buyers question its purpose. The room was small, with a large window and two doors, one to the living room the other to a bathroom that opened to the laundry room. The room did have
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prepare a home to sell: The Warm Cold Call. . . - 05/12/07 12:23 PM
In order to get business, you have to ask for business. Staging is a benefit to the homeowner and to the agent, but we as professional stagers have to get out there and prove it. I for one hate to cold call! I am not incredibly fond of rejection and I know how cold calling works. Rejection, rejection, rejection. . .score! Way more rejections than sales. Not my favorite activity. The other day, I was perusing the listings and status changes on my local MLS and all of a sudden I was compelled to pick up the phone. It was my moral
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