home stager: Helping Home Sellers Realize the Dream of Moving On Part III of a Passport Series - 07/21/08 06:54 AM
This is the third part of a series concerning acquiring “passports” which you will need in order to adequately pursue and receive your dreams. If you haven’t seen Part I you will need to start there to satisfactorily understand what this business with … (2 comments)
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home stager: Get the Necessary Passports for Your Dream of Being a Home Stager - Part II of a Passport Series - 07/14/08 03:31 PM
In this, the second portion of the Passport Series, we will take a look at some passports which are important to growing a home staging business. If you haven’t already seen Part I you will need to take a look in order to understand what … (18 comments)
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home stager: Are You Truly Prepared to Receive Your Dreams? - 07/07/08 07:13 PM
“Believing in your dreams demands that you are prepared to receive them” Barbara J. Winter in her book Making a Living Without a Job.
The above quote from Winter’s book is written on a 3 X 5 card which is stuck in the French Memo Board that hangs at eye-level … (29 comments)
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home stager: What Independence Means to a Home Seller - 07/03/08 11:07 AM
When you hire an independent contractor (your local home stager) to prepare your property to independently stand out in today’s market you will no longer be dependent on the hope of independence from mortgage payments, taxes, yard maintenance costs, housekeeping expenses and insurance payments on the real estate … (12 comments)
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home stager: Stage it Forward “Week in Review and Way Back Too” June 15 – 21, 2008 - 06/23/08 01:58 AM
One of the basic tenets of good design and of good organization is to group like things. You know how it works – I mean, it is so simple. Open your cutlery drawer and you have a shining example; all your knives are in one slot, all the … (31 comments)
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home stager: What Do YOU Do? - 06/12/08 04:51 PM
I am the administrator of an exclusive home display and merchandising firm. Our clients are intelligent and highly motivated individuals, who seek quality, expect expertise and understand the importance of capitalizing ventures which will provide high returns.
By providing imaginative thinking, problem solving skills and understanding … (26 comments)
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home stager: Home Stager Contain Yourself! - 05/27/08 06:57 AM
There are many containers which a home stager must use in order to provide excellent house staging consultations and services.
Some we find important to us are:
Business End
Plastic Totes
File Cabinets
Brief Case
Tool Box
Waste Basket
Utility Trailer
Business-Card … (16 comments)
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home stager: Home Staging Practice Which Starts With Great Ideas and Theories - 05/06/08 10:04 AM
“A person’s mind stretched to a new idea can never return to its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
I Had a Great Idea!
In truth I had about eight billion three hundred million six hundred thousand and forty four “great” ideas. With time and the facts of life the list … (22 comments)
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home stager: Seller Motivated! (Rant Warning) - 05/04/08 10:27 PM
Have you spent time with a person who feels it is necessary to explain on a regular basis that he or she is SMART? If you are like me, what you may want to say to that person is, “If you are so doggone smart, you don’t have to go around … (22 comments)
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home stager: Home Staging Must Offer House SPECIFIC and Owner EXPLICIT Solutions - 04/11/08 10:04 AM
Each home is indeed distinct.
Even houses which are built with the same plans are occupied by very diverse persons and require different solutions.
An excellent house stager who knows how to address the precise issues involved with each individual house as well as with each unique home owner … (12 comments)
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home stager: Home Staging, Home School, La Leche League and ActiveRain - 04/02/08 01:07 PM
I don’t have time to write this blog. I have other things which MUST be accomplished today. I wrote a blog Sunday. I wrote a blog Monday. I wrote a blog Tuesday. I have other things to do today and I should not be writing a blog on Wednesday. But I … (30 comments)
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home stager: Home Stager Assignment – Who is Your Ideal Client? - 03/17/08 08:16 PM
The perfect client for my business turns out not to be my client after all. Anyone who owns a business knows that repeat clients are the best clients. In that case it seems the perfect client for my business should be someone who regularly sells home after home after home. So … (12 comments)
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home stager: Selling Your Home? 5 Important Considerations - 03/11/08 07:13 PM
1. Understand what you are selling
Most home shoppers are looking for a place to live – not a project! One of the first things you must understand when you are selling your house is that prospective buyers most often are looking for a piece of their dream. Usually they are … (9 comments)
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home stager: Home Staging Vacant Houses May Not Be Rocket Science But . . . - 02/29/08 12:37 PM
For those who may not be familiar with the drill think back to when you were just out of college. You found the perfect little place to live and you needed to move all that stuff from your college living quarters as well as all the “new” pieces your family and … (28 comments)
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home stager: Be Sure Your Bathroom is REALLY For Sale. - 02/21/08 11:48 AM
Have you ever gone to visit your very good friend, who keeps a doggone spiffy house and realized she has this crazy, mucky, dusty place all around her baroque bathroom mirror? "How could she miss that?" you wonder. It could be she has spent hours and hours cleaning this very … (16 comments)
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home stager: A Home Stager Wears Three Basic Hats. . . - 02/19/08 01:51 PM
A Home Stager Wears Three Basic Hats
Handsome Prince
Doctor
Marriage Counselor
Many Sleeping Beauties (builder’s models, spec homes, houses which have never been occupied) lie in wait for the kiss of the Handsome Prince to be animated and brought to life.
Then there are the Patients (vacant properties … (37 comments)
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home stager: Home Stager Performs Strip Show Just to Garner Attention! - 02/08/08 03:35 PM
AND IT WORKED!
Yes, in an effort to gain the attention of the crowd I recently asked my daughter if she would be willing to take off her shirt in front of a few people gathered for the MLS breakfast for our local NAR affiliate, PAAR. Being the kind, loving … (88 comments)
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home stager: Participating Prevents Property Paralysis - 01/24/08 05:23 PM
Perhaps you’ve noticed all the possibilities proscribed by Home Staging practitioners. Perfectly pampered properties are perpetually perceived as particularly proper places to purchase.
Perchance you’ve seen the problem paralleled with the non-prepared place of abode as paramount to persistently punching passing phantoms.
If you have plied through this … (15 comments)
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home stager: Fast Facts Concerning the Sale of YOUR Property - 12/09/07 09:10 AM
Fact 1 – any piece of property will sell! No matter what the location, no matter what the condition if the price is low enough the property will sell.
You may want to pay for a bulldozer to take out the one thing that is slowing the sale of your property. But, … (21 comments)
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home stager: I’m Sorry – I Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know - 11/23/07 04:12 PM
A number of years ago my husband and I spent the night in a beautiful hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. We wanted to find a certain type of store (OK, we wanted to know how to get to a particular Antique Store.) so we asked the young girl behind the counter … (24 comments)
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