Val's Blog: Long Island & New York Area Home Staging including Nassau and Suffolk counties

  I basically just wrote this on a Forum for Home Stagers, but then realized that this is excellent "fodder" for all of us Stagers.... I am having a very difficult time getting realtors to come on board and realize the value of staging.  I have yet to find the 'magic motivation' for them to use s...

Our local Long Island newspaper, ran an article on Friday which spoke of the different incentives that sellers are offering in order to make a sale.  People are offering free vacations, mortgage payments for a year, or paying a year's worth of property taxes; they are even throwing in boats and a...

  So, get this...for the past few weeks I have been trying, without success, to get the owners of a vacant home to stage the house with rental furniture.  I sharpened and sharpened that pencil until I got the average monthly fee down to less than $1,000.  That was including my own accessories, an...

Well, it really is true - you DO learn something new each day!  Today I learned that if you comment on a fellow AR's blog and are not logged in, you don't receive credit.  Who knew?!!I love this site and go on and off it several times a day.  I really enjoy reading blogs about the business - all ...

I'm relatively new here and this is my first blog posting, so please go easy on me!I have been staging since 1998, but for family, friends and last year my own home (which sold for $65,000 more than the competition - that was after an $8,000 investment on my part for various changes before listin...