home stager: HOME STAGING AND 'THE RECESSION', REAL ESTATE AND REALTY - 11/08/07 07:28 PM
There was a Reuters article, posted today on Yahoo, which spoke about the possibility of an economic recession and how it is partially fueled by the mortgage crisis. Of course other key factors would include rising oil prices, sluggish retail sales and falling prices on homes for sale.
As a … (14 comments)
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home stager: Staging A House Without Walls - 07/24/07 09:02 PM
As a Home Stager, I am finding that I am often faced with a challenge - and I always try to ‘rise' to the occasion and ‘make it work' for everyone involved. I think that the biggest obstacle that I have had to work with, to date, is viewing a house … (8 comments)
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home stager: Let's start at the very beginning ( a very good place to start)....Vacant Staging - 07/12/07 06:49 PM
Since I am hoping to see the group, VACANT HOUSE STAGING & NEW HOMES, become a 'tutorial' of sorts with respect to Staging Vacant Homes, let's start off by sharing ideas - what HAS worked and what HASN'T worked.....
When I launched my business early in the Spring of 2006, I had all these ideals of … (21 comments)
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home stager: You Never Know When or Where You Will Meet Your Next Contact - PT. 2 - 07/07/07 07:32 PM
For those of you who may have read my post about making contacts in the most unlikely places, here is the follow-up. The article came out yesterday and here it is (and please note that our own LAURIE MINDNICH Contact Options Realty was interviewed as well!):
Sign IN Search the News … (8 comments)
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home stager: You Don't Always Have Control of the Situation - 06/08/07 10:25 PM
I'm actually away on 'vacation' for a few days of "r and r" up on Martha's Vineyard, but am occasionally checking on my e-mail and the activity on Active Rain...
On the way up here, I was thinking about the job that I completed on Tuesday. It was a huge new construction … (11 comments)
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home stager: You Never Know When or Where You Will Meet Your Next Contact - 05/30/07 07:43 AM
Every morning I have a habit of stopping into my neighborhood Deli for a 20 oz. Green Tea and 2 Hard-Boiled Eggs. The last few mornings, I have noticed that a gentleman always comes in around the same time as I, and yesterday we shared a discussion about the virtues of … (26 comments)
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home stager: An Open Letter to the 'Vacant House' Builder: - 05/27/07 10:49 PM
Dear 'Vacant' Builder,
This is an Open Letter to inform you that, contrary to what you may believe, a Home Stager cannot stage your Vacant House when given only 3-5 days to put it all together! There is much involved in the process and I feel that it is my … (7 comments)
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home stager: Garage Sales: A Wonderful Resource for Home Stagers - 05/26/07 12:37 PM
As I was out doing errands today, it occured to me that all winter long I had looked forward to the Spring so that I could start frequenting Garage Sales. They are a terrific resource for inexpensive furniture and accessories which is good news for any Stager!
I realized today that … (8 comments)
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home stager: What I Know For Sure... - 05/11/07 10:29 PM
Oprah includes an article on the last page of every one of her monthly magazines that speaks about "what I know for sure".
Today, while driving to the train station to pick up my youngest, I thought about how my life has changed in the past year. I thought about my … (11 comments)
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home stager: Finding The Time To Get It All Done - or How Do You Cram 36 Hours Of Work Into a 24-Hour Day? - 05/04/07 06:55 AM
It's official.....my Home Staging career has taken over my life! I am amazed to find that I am spending 97% of my time either shopping for new accessories, marketing, or mentally arranging furniture for upcoming jobs - which, by the way, are for the most part, vacant houses. I'm not complaining, mind you, … (18 comments)
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home stager: STAGING: You Need To Hang Tough If You're Going To Make It! - 04/25/07 08:11 PM
While staging a model home yesterday, I had a conversation with my rep from the rental company who had come out to the job site. She said, "Val, do you know who your competition is in your area?", to which I replied that I honestly didn't. I wouldn't know how to find … (28 comments)
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home stager: A Time to Blog, A Time to Comment - how do you find the time? - 04/21/07 11:07 PM
Hey fellow AR members!
I have to ask you something - does anyone else find, that as much as you love Active Rain, that often times the blogging and commenting are just too much? Just another 'task' that you have to complete before the day is done? Well, I've been finding that a lot … (34 comments)
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home stager: EVERYONE'S FAVORITE STAGER HITS MILESTONE! - 03/05/07 08:18 AM
Today is Marci's 40th Birthday!
Marci is our 'unofficial' Welcoming Committee here at AR and a Stager Extraordinaire! She has been welcoming the newest stagers to Active Rain for a few months now. No one asked her to do it...she just decided to "stage it forward" in any way that she could.
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home stager: The "Future" of my Business - 02/03/07 09:45 PM
Late today I went for a 'psychic reading' with someone that was highly recommended to me because of her accuracy. I must tell you that I consider myself to be very spiritual and highly in tune with the world of 'spirit'. Because of this, I was eagerly anticipating my appointment early … (7 comments)
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home stager: The HGTV "Dream House" and Home Staging - 01/05/07 07:44 PM
For those of you who are avid HGTV watchers, you recognize that this is the time of year when the "Dream Home" Sweepstakes begin. Each year, since 1997, HGTV has built and decorated a house with a value of $1,000,000+ in different areas of the country. In turn, each house … (18 comments)
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