I'm loving this group! I've pretty much started my real estate career as a buyers agent as most do, but I soon realized that I missed being creative as I came off a 20 year Visual Merchandising career because of an accident.
When I heard about Home Staging a year into my RE biz I immediately signed up for a Home Staging class ( via Stagedhomes.com) and got to work on obtaining listings...the nastier the better! lol
I'm fueled when I walk into a listing appointment and the house is cluttered and walls are a deep maroon!!!
One of my first listing was a hard sell for the staging part until I took the sellers to some of the surrounding homes that where for sale at the time. Some nice some not so nice. What happened was they started to put on their Buyers Eyes and got it! They would need to do some work to put their home into market ready condition. Homes in the area where taking 60+ days to sell! They needed to sell fast. The seller really surprised me when I presented the staging plan and even went above and beyond what I asked of them. The moral of the story is...they sold the home in 11 days not 60+ and those other homes stayed on the market a heck of a lot longer and some sold for substantially less than orig asking price...we got full price!
Here is what we where up against
here is the result
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