selling your home: Staging Tip #3 – Refresh Your Walls - 03/08/09 12:41 PM
 
Recently, my 6 year old son’s best friend taught him a new trick.  How to climb the walls.  Literally. The hallway from the entryway to the kitchen is fairly narrow and the boys place one foot and one hand on either wall and climb up to the ceiling.  Needless to say, it didn’t take long for my walls to look filthy.
 
When is the last time you really looked at your walls?  When you live in a house, wear and tear happens gradually and you may not even notice it a first.  If you want to sell your house, it’s … (5 comments)

selling your home: Staging Tip #1 - Follow Your Nose - 02/13/09 09:44 AM
How does your home smell?  Inviting?  Repelling?  Nuetral?  This is so much more important than you realize!  Scent is powerfully linked to memory and mood.  You want people to be in a good mood when they tour your house, and you want them to remember it!
Last weekend, I showed many, many houses, but one in particular stands out for HOW BAD IT SMELLED! It was so bad my clients and I didn't even go through the whole house!  The musty smell wasn't just annoying, it was a sign that the house might have a serious problem.
On the other hand, I previewed a … (9 comments)

selling your home: The Power of Staging: Unveiling True Potential - 02/12/09 09:42 AM
House hunting with my grandmother was always interesting.  Before I was an agent, I used to pick up my Grandma  on Sunday afternoons and take her to look at open houses.  (We wanted her to move closer to us, but she didn't want to commit to an agent.) 
My grandmother is a brilliant woman when is comes to business and numbers, but her ability to visualize is non-existent.  This became very clear to me when we visited a great house that had a grand piano in the living room. 
She surveyed the room and said, "There's just not much room with that piano in here." 
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