I Received a Referral from LA- Thanks to Active Rain!
What would you do if you received a phone call from the Real Estate Staging Association's Stager of the Year, asking if you could help out one of her family members? Well, I'll tell you what I did. I nearly plum well fainted!
"Hello Sally, this is Annie Pinsker-Brown calling".
"Sally? Sally?...are you there?".
"Oh, hi, Annie", I replied weakly (remember, I'd just fainted)! Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating just a teensy weensy little bit, but you get the idea.
Turns out Annie had a family member living in British Columbia, who wanted to sell her downtown Vancouver property, and Annie thought of me. I first "met" Annie online, here at Active Rain. I love the work she posts here, and can relate to her west coast style. Eventually, I met Annie in "3D" so to speak, at the RESA Conference this past January in Vegas, where Annie won the RESA Stager of the Year, and I won the Rookie Stager of the Year for Canada. It was a pleasure to meet Annie in person, and she really is as nice as she appears online!
Not only was I thrilled to be styling this hip, young condo in downtown Vancouver, but I also met the Realtor, Todd Allan, who is a fantastic guy. Turns out Todd had another townhouse he was just listing, and asked me to stage that property also. Wouldn't you know it, with his great sales expertise, and my staging abilities, that townhouse sold very quickly for over asking! To quote a line from the movie Casablanca, "I feel this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"!
Thank you Annie, thank you Todd, and thank you, Active Rain!
Here is a quick video and a few Before & After shots of the condo we staged:
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