Realtors: want to change the way consumers view your profession (used car salesman?) educate your peers about getting what you pay for. With staging being a new offering in many new communities it is providing yet another opportunity for your peers to bring you, collectively, down in the view of
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05/30/2008
I had an encounter the other day in my garage. My husband, father-in-law and myself were standing in the garage enjoying a cold MGD (Miller Genuine Draft) when a woman sauntered up our drive-way. Turns out she is a newish local Realtor going around passing out a quarterly 'newsletter' and a large
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05/30/2008
Well, we have purchased a new (to us) house in Courtice. We living in Toronto have always used Shubb as our lawyer when buying and selling but now, with 2 kids and being in the middle of Durham I just don't have the desire to drive in to the city for his low rates. If anyone in Durham can recomme
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05/27/2008
I know you all feel strongly about the value of using a Buyers Agent but I've gotten some insight since I started looking for a new house (yippee!). Buyers who use the internet to search MLS will also look at the FSBO website listings. As we all know the vast majority of buyers are using the inte
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05/19/2008
When we start our own business (staging) we spend a lot of time in the preparation. The most time consuming task for myself was selecting the business name. I have pages of ideas. Ultimately I decided on '2 Hounds Design'...which was not my marketing guru's favorite (to be polite). With Active Ra
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05/18/2008
I don't work evenings either...theoretically. I started out my first year, decorating and home staging in Downtown Toronto, with this policy firmly inplace. However, I have been heard as recently as today(!) saying 'I don't work weekends'.I need to amend my 'Weekends and Evenings Policy' to inclu
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05/01/2008
