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Home Stager with Home Star Staging

Feel free to use me and I mean it.

I was inspired over the course of this past year to write some articles on the subject of home staging as well as other topics of interest.  It is my desire to educate the public in an informative as well as entertaining way on the power and benefits of home staging. I've posted them before individually but have them grouped here in one spot.

As a Professional Home Stager in Plano, TX, serving Collin County and surrounding areas, one of my goals is to see Home Staging become a Real Estate Industry Standard for all RE sales transactions. Whether vacant, occupied or new build, some aspect of Home Staging is always necessary.

The way to I see this vision becoming a reality is by education. bookworm

Education of the general public as well as Real Estate Professionals who do not see the benefit or need for this powerful marketing tool.  For those of us in the Home Staging trenches, I implore you to stay with us! Keep the momentum going and together we make powerful voice for our industry.

Active Rain and the Stage it Forward group have given us all a National Platform in which to further spread the message!

I encourage everyone to keep writing your success stories, tales from the trenches, articles and blogs. Daily our messages are being picked up and read by various press release sources, on-line magazines, blogspots and websites.  You never know where your words may end up. We are being heard.

Now please USE ME if you need me.

The links below are to the articles I've currently written for Ezine articles, a free on-line magazine.  I see other Active Rainers have also been writing for this source and it makes me so happy to see that! It once again moves us all forward.

You may download any article on the site, even use it for your own sites as long as the authors are given credit for their work.  It is Copyrighted material.  However, the information can be used for you and your clients!  I've started to include in my reports for my clients some of the articles I've written. I feel it gives them more information they may need.

Thank you as always for reading my blog and please feel free to post your comments if so moved.

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Owner of Home Star Staging, Karen holds a Bachelor's Degree in Marketing from Florida International University and is an Accredited Staging Professional. With an eye for design and extensive experience in Real Estate Staging, Karen knows what it takes to get your house shown and sold in the competitive Real Estate market. Karen is passionate about educating the Real Estate Community on the benefits of home staging.

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  • Canned Soup Or Houses - Why Bother With Packaging?
    [Real-Estate:Selling] Whether you're selling canned soup or a house, packaging counts. Just like any other product on the shelf, if selling your home, start treating it as a marketable product.

  • Safety Tips For Sellers To Consider Before The First Showing
    [Real-Estate:Selling] While the vast majority of buyers are in the market to actually purchase a home there are others whose purpose may be far more sinister. Many people will be walking through your property and certain precautions are in order regardless of where you live. Here are safety tips from a Professional Home Stager on simple things you can do to prepare and protect your home and others during the selling process.

  • Not Yourself and Looking Old - Do You Need Professional Help?
    [Business:Marketing]Do you have a professional business head shot for your marketing portfolio? If not is it because you fear the process and the result? Here are some reasons why you should get it done and advice to help you through the process. It's easier than you think and it's becoming a necessary part of doing a service business especially through the internet.

  • Set the Stage For Your Own Home Selling Success Story
    [Real-Estate:Selling] Do you like the latest home shows on TV? Want to know how to create the same happy ending for the sale of your own house? Set the stage for your own successful sale with these tips.

  • The Virtual Home Buyer
    [Real-Estate:Selling]Today's Internet savvy home buyer does not need to leave the comfort of their home to purchase a home. Make sure your property listed on the web stands out from the competition.

  • Selling a Home? Then Company Is Coming Everyday
    [Real-Estate:Selling] If you're selling a home, treat your buyers as the company that comes everyday. Honor your buyers and invite them in to the comfort of THEIR new home, don't regard them as unwelcome guests in yours.

  • Hide The Toilet, The Buyers Are Coming, Home Staging - Beyond The Obvious
    [Real-Estate:Selling] A Home Staging article to give helpful hints to sellers on how to better prepare certain areas their home for sale that may be overlooked. Hide the Toilet the Buyers are Coming!

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Comments (16)

Teresa Meyer
Cincinnati Home Stager - Cincinnati, OH
Home Staging Cincinnati-OH.

Karen: I love reading your articles...you know that!:) Always full of great information and you have a talent for getting the point across in many of your creative examples! 

I will DEF. be using your articles...(thank you!) for my own business as well as something I'm working on but I've got to keep hush hush about it for now. :)

Nov 09, 2007 12:00 AM
Anthony Stokes-Pereira
Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty - Nanuet, NY
Realtor

Hi Karen,

Great post!! I really do enjoy reading your post. Keep Posting!!!!!!!!!!!

Nov 09, 2007 12:11 AM
Anthea Click
Fresh Perspectives - www.InsideNashvilleHomes.com - Franklin, TN
Nashville Home Stager - Selling Nashville, TN homes quickly!

Karen,

You are the greatest. These articles are great tools to give to clients. Also helps establish the stager as the resident expert (no pun intended).

Nov 09, 2007 12:43 AM
Michelle Minch
Moving Mountains Design Home Staging, Pasadena, CA - Los Angeles, CA
Home Staging Los Angeles and Orange County, CA

Karen: I am so happy to have met you here on AR. Your blogs are always so informative and interesting reading. Thank you for sharing this with all of us.

 

Nov 09, 2007 12:50 AM
Ann Krewson
A.L.I. Designs, Inc. - Houston, TX
A.L.I. Designs; Staging Houston Homes; Allied Member of A.S.I.D.

Karen,

great post. I always love reading your post, they are so informative. I will definetly take you up on using your articles of you will get the credit. Thanks 

Nov 09, 2007 01:00 AM
Tom Burris
NMLS# 335055 - Baton Rouge, LA
Texas/Louisiana Mortgage Pro - 13 YRS Experience

Pick one, and I will put it on my outside blog. http://www.dallasloanguy.com/wordpress/

I have never had a guest writer, so you can be my first!!

 

Nov 09, 2007 01:04 AM
Karen Otto
Home Star Staging - Plano, TX
Plano Home Staging, Dallas Home Staging, www.homes

Teresa, you are way too kind.  I feel you and I share a kindred spirit with choosing both Star and Staging in our company names.  I catch you on my Google Alerts all the time Staging Star!

Thanks Anthony!

Hi Anthea - If I may be of service to another then I am a happy camper. Hey I'll take the local resident expert status on home staging any day! In my perspective you're awesome yourself....

MM - You know how much I value your opinion and thank you for your friendship, it means more to me than you know.

Ann - Please feel free to use them! I am humbled that you'd choose to.

Hey Tom - you know you're my favorite loan guy in all of DFW and you're keeping your status safe with me  by your generous "guest spot" offer.  Cool! I accept of course.

How about Canned Soup? Or Hide the Toilet.... that's right up your alley I think ;-)

Nov 09, 2007 01:48 AM
Tom Burris
NMLS# 335055 - Baton Rouge, LA
Texas/Louisiana Mortgage Pro - 13 YRS Experience

http://www.dallasloanguy.com/wordpress/35/

I just noticed that my blog links are categorized by article numbers.... instead of title. I need to work on that

Nov 09, 2007 04:25 AM
Terry Haugen STAGE it RIGHT! 321-956-2495
Stage it Right! - Melbourne, FL
Karen, you are so awesome.  A virtual one man band!  How do you juggle all those things AND run a household at the same time?  I've bookmarked this so I can read your ezines at my leisure, provided I ever have any :-)
Nov 09, 2007 05:11 AM
Karen Otto
Home Star Staging - Plano, TX
Plano Home Staging, Dallas Home Staging, www.homes

work work work Tom Tom.

Hey Terry, I wrote most of these over the summer when I had more free time.  I have one in mind for the next article but have not had time to draft it.  I usually write articles from blogs I've written and tweak them.

It is a JUGGLE my dear. 

Today I'm home with a sick child, loading my truck for a small job tomorrow, preparing a list for a job on Monday (have to pack the two trucks Sunday) answering/making phone calls, checking email and AR every now and then and looking bedraggled doing it.  I've been up since about 5:30 AM (most of this week) and starting to feel it about now. As far as my house... hummmm... my mom comes a week from Monday.  I have one week to get crackalakin' - I'm too busy helping other's make their houses look nicer than my own...ironic isn't it?

Nov 09, 2007 07:09 AM
Jackie Peraza
Perceptions AdverStaging(TM), LLC - Framingham, MA
Home Stager - Framingham, Massachusetts

Karen - you are incredible!  Thanks for your generous resources.

Jackie

Nov 09, 2007 08:06 AM
Karen Otto
Home Star Staging - Plano, TX
Plano Home Staging, Dallas Home Staging, www.homes
Wow Jackie I didn't realize I could so easily be incredible! Thank you ;-) you're too sweet.
Nov 09, 2007 09:07 AM
Jackie Peraza
Perceptions AdverStaging(TM), LLC - Framingham, MA
Home Stager - Framingham, Massachusetts

Karen - yeah, just like all that you are involved with you make look so easy! :)   You are so funny.

Jackie

Nov 09, 2007 11:59 AM
Karen Otto
Home Star Staging - Plano, TX
Plano Home Staging, Dallas Home Staging, www.homes
Jack-kay - Smoke and mirrors baby, smoke and mirrors! ;-)
Nov 09, 2007 01:32 PM
Loreena and Michael Yeo
3:16 team REALTY ~ Locally-owned Prosper TX Real Estate Co. - Prosper, TX
Real Estate Agents
Karen, you are a true gem to the staging/ RE industry. I hear your passion and honesty in everything you do. Most of all, I appreciate your friendship.
Nov 10, 2007 04:54 PM
Karen Otto
Home Star Staging - Plano, TX
Plano Home Staging, Dallas Home Staging, www.homes
Loreena Hey Mama! Thanks for stopping by and I've been thinking about you and how you're getting along these days with the new addition.  When things slow down I want to get together.
Nov 11, 2007 12:58 AM