From Vacant to Vavoom! 655 Foxtail Lane 32 Days From Transformed to Finished Transaction!
My friend David Wallace, from Harmony Redesign supplied the furniture and I staged 655 Foxtail Lane, in Sherwood Park, for Realtor Jas Longowal on March 19th.
Now 32 days later this house has sold and there's another another happy family with a beautiful new home!
Man, I love my job!
:D
Hi Peg~I think it's cool that you love your job, and it shows! Congrats on another success story.
Have an AWESOME evening!
Thanx Michael! What's not to like!?! I get to find great furniture art and accesories, decorate, shop and take photos! And if it's an owner occupied home I get to hang out with some lovely people! Honestly it doesn't seem like 'work' most of the time... you have an awesome evening as well!
Peg- i wish I had a David Wallace here. My resources for furniture are very limited but I make it up with accessories.
Sharon, Thanx! It's so exciting when this happens! I love being able to tell people when one of 'my' houses sell! hee! :D
Kathy, I had been toying with the whole buying furniture thing (which my husband was horrified about) before I met David. There are a few rental places here for Stagers, but they are quite high priced by the time you add everything up. I have my own accesories too, but I've taken David shopping and have been his buyer since Feb so he has the stuff I want if I don't want to use my accesories, or they are already out. I'll tell him he's a hot commodity, he'll be thrilled! :D
The home looks so beautiful with the staging in place. I've always wondered, can a buyer purchase the furnishings too Peg?
BU-FU you rock at putting these places together and making them so "sell-able". They gotta love you in Edmonton, as much as we do "in the Rain".
Absolutely, Tom! Everything has a price tag (not visible) and if a buyer really likes something, that just means we can go out and find something else for the next house. Some places charge full price for what is in the houses, but I get all my accessories on sale, so I'd be giving a discount... As well as much as we want to think the furniture doesn't get used, people and REA sit on the furniture during open houses, so after a while it does become a bit worn. We had a buyer want a huge piece of art from a house, but didn't want to pay the price...
BU-FU, the funny thing is: we consulted on a 1.3 mil house for the same REA and she says the builder wants to put it on the market for a few weeks before he pays to stage it. The staging was less than $5000. Less than 1% of listed price! I'm just shrugging and saying we'll do it in 3 weeks...
Peg - You are on a serious roll! It must be so nice to be working in brand spanking new homes, too. Keep on rolling, sista' stager!
Sal Gal! I love the vacants, but I just spent a couple days with some owner occupieds and they have cool stuff too! It's a toss up... Sista Stajah!
Janice, depends on what day it is... :D
Jim (& Caliche) LOL, thanx! Ain't that the truth! There are so many great Stagers out there, we just need the public and REA's to understand our value!
Peg, I wish you and a couple of other home stagers I know in AR were in this area...I could sure use some help with a couple of listings.
Nick I'd be glad to take a vaca every once in a while down that way! LOL! I'm sure there's an AR Stager in your area, I'm going to do a search!
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