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There's NO Repeat Performance! Set the Stage Right the First Time in Walnut Creek California!!

The first Realtor staged for FREE and got the listing.

Four months passed, over 50 showings. No offers...

Time cannot be recaptured. The showings cannot be repeated, homeowners need to clarify what they are getting when a Realtor offers them FREE home staging when they list their home.

Here are the photos of the Realtor Staged Home

New Agent, Ellen Osmundson and Professional Home Staging with C.L. Design Services and the builder/homeowner's direct quote is "I knew the home did not look right. Now the rooms have purpose and look like what they were built for. I should have done this months ago. Thank you Cathy Lee!"

Time cannot be recaptured. Past showings cannot be repeated. Homeowners need to clarify what they are getting when a Realtor offers them FREE staging when they list their home.

To maximize your selling potential contact a professional home stager before listing your home. Enhance your properties features and create a competitive edge essential in todays market.

Cathy Lee is owner of CL Design Services a full services professional home staging company serving the San Francisco Bay Area. We strive to keep our home owners, Realtors and many potential clients' best interests in mind with every staging.

Contact Cathy Lee today for your complimentary quote today at 925.351.6118.

Posted by Cathy Lee ASP, Danville, San Ramon CA on 12/06/2008 01:36 AM

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24 Comments on There's NO Repeat Performance! Set the Stage Right the First Time in Walnut Creek California!!

DEC

i love the folding table, i can just imagine myself sitting there playing solitare at 4am in my boxers and eating dry cereal out of the box. MMMM, just like home, lol.

Cathy, nothing can beat "professional" staging.

Unfortunately, I think this happens too often Cathy. Your photos illustrate the importance of bringing in a professional. Great work and relevant post.

Cathy, This was unfortunate for the sellers. Your work proves what a professional is. Great work, great photos.

HI Robert!! LOL! One problem-there were no chairs.

Hello Gary, Michelle and Donna! The home is getting traffic and good responses so we are excited.

Hi Cathy! It looks great now!! That was staging??? Hmmm. Well you are there to save the day, and I am sure it will sell fast :) Still recovering at my house..........

HI Wendy this flu going around is powerful stuff. BE WELL!!!!

Hi Cathy....sooner or later, people are going to understand that professional means just that, PROFESSIONAL STAGING. The rooms look so much better.....nice! Regards-Kathleen G

Cathy ~ that "realtor staging" is pathetic! No wonder there was no interest in the home. Your staging, however, illustrates perfectly the concept of "professional stager." This week I met several realtors who told me that they "usually stage their own listings." I later checked their website listing photos ... they are doing such a disservice to their sellers. We just have to keep educating the public about the difference!

Cathy, there are alot of misconceptions about real estate staging. Your post is exceptional example of what true, professional staging is all about. Fabulous work, fabulous post :]

Cathy Lee,

Great job as usual. Your post is right on the money. What a difference the listing could have been if only the original agent had seen the value of "true' professional home staging. Education, Education, Education...not only for the homeowners but for the agents who believe a palm tree and a folding table is staging.

Thanks for your continued excellence in professional staging as well as your words of wisdom for the rest of our staging community.

Suzette

HI There Staging Ladies Kathleen, Maureen, Ronelle and.... Suzette, my fellow SOS. We should stop saying "knowledge is power" and start saying "get educated and be powerfully successful". We might get more attention...What do you think????

I think that education is very powerful. I hope that the REA realizes your that your services are crucial ;)

DEC

Cathy:
Thanks for the laugh this morning! Free Staging... then the pics. Oh, man! It's awesome.

Your point is excellent: 4 months - 50 showings, and still unsold. You get what you pay for!

It looks like the free staging style may have been learned from those guys on cable, who are a bunch of fraternity guys running around New England doing flips... The head of the group is named Thad, or some thing like that... The woman who hosts the open houses thinks Staging is putting a soap dish in the bathroom and a salad bowl in the kitchen. Y'all know the show...

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Free staging by a Realtor.

Well all I can say is that they got what they paid for.

Great Job, as usual, on your staging.

HI Lori, Michael and Virginia! I just received a call from the listing agent and this home is pending!!!!!!! YAHOO!!!!!!!!!

Cathy, You did a fabulous job as usual. I know people don't want to invest the money in staging but they'll take reductions and have it sit on the market....these pictures say it all.

I love to hear another success story. We all need to keep putting out the word, great job!

DEC

good job on this one. very nice after shots.

Happy Monday Carole, Allegra and Benita. Thanks for your kind comments!!

Wow -- those before pics are hideous!!!! People should always be wary of "free". I have seen a few agents locally do their own Staging with furnishings and it wasn't good. I am sure there are some agents that can do a great job but possibly not the majority.

DEC

Realtors do themselves a disservice by trying to stage themselves. They loose realtor cool points by wearing another hat. They should carry themselves as 'too busy with my real estate to do staging also!"

Cathy - Excellent post. The first realtor sadly did not put the client's interest before their own. Everyone loses when that happens. Great work, thanks for sharing.

Hello! Tori, Teresa and Rhonda! Thank you for your kindness.

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