Staging U Ramblings

Great Tips to get your home ready to  SELL!l Curb Appeal: Buyers begin to make decisions whether they will buy the house as soon as they drive up to it. At minimum, lawns should be freshly mowed, leaves raked or snow shoveled. Consider a hanging or potted plant for the entrance. Sweep the porch, ...

AR members I need just 2-3 websites that you think are valuable in your networking or gathering info for and in your real estate business. Please do not include AR.  I will publish the list when I gather the info.ThanksWebsite NamePurpose of site

Most of you know about Pier1 Imports and their 20% discount but  World Market also offers a 10% discount.  Home Fabric and Rugs also offers a 10% discount. In my community I have many (8) local merchants that give me discounts. I ask every store manager that I purchase products from because it ha...

Hey I'm trying to get your attention!  Isn't that what we are trying to do when we are marketing ourselves?  It's not easy trying to come up with interesting ways of re-inventing and staying current with forever changing trends.I've been using a free site that I came across that has a great forma...

Stand out from the Rest! Staging is what can help you stand out from other Realtors.  There still are many Realtors that don't use staging services.  What I don't understand about this choice is that advertising the home in many different ways is how the home is sold.  Networking, word of mouth, ...

I held a class yesterday and I always have my class of Realtors fill out a questionnaire of about 25 questions.  This helps me with marketing my company. I thought I would share the results of 4 of the questions.Do you feel uncomfortable talking about staging to your client? Do you think that sta...

I was recently discussing ideas for creating traffic through a staged home and thought I would open this discussion with all of the stagers. Here are a few and let's hear yours...Staging companies list their listings on their website with picsProvide pic and listing info to ActiverainAllow networ...

Please talk to me... Why are you NOT using a stager on your team?I am often a speaker for seminars, conferences and meetings regarding the staging industry and your feed back on this one question will help me to develop materials to help Realtors not only in this area but in other marketing oppor...

I recently read a survey on about the top ten recommended home improvements(by real estate agents) Clean and de-clutterLighten and brightenStage home for saleLandscape front/back yardsThe survey info is worth looking because it is current and positiev information on staging and can be found at ht...

Two model homes burglarized! You can imagine some of the panic that my client had when my client called and said that the two models had been broken into and massive amounts of products were taken.  Well we have done hundreds of homes and it was the first time for our company  experienced theft o...