staging: HOW and WHERE to DISPOSE of OLD CANS of PAINT - 05/15/13 01:31 AM
How and Where to
Dispose of Old Cans of Paint  
Cleaning an Old House to Sell One of my elderly clients in my seniors real estate business had accumulated about 35 partially used cans of paint.  She asked me if I would dispose of the old paint according to the rules and services in our City.  I said, "Sure!", without having the slightest idea what to do next.  
So I loaded it in my pickup and took it home, so that, at least the client could continue her stellar progress in preparing her home so I could sell it for … (4 comments)

staging: TOP TEN GROOMING TIPS TO SELL YOUR HOME - 03/28/13 03:17 PM
Top ten grooming tips to sell your home  

Two Things You Must Do to Beat Your Competition in the Housing Market The best ways to sell well are to:
1- Attract more buyers to come to your home to see it, and 
2- Let your home sell itself so well that the buyers will worry someone else may buy it first.
And how do you do that?  Simple.  If everything else is similar (price, size, location,...) then the home that looks better will sell better.  And out here in ranching territory, we are very familiar with how to groom our horses, … (7 comments)

staging: STAGING: "IF IT'S TRUE IT AIN'T BRAGGIN' " - 03/18/13 04:06 AM
Isn't That a Quote Football Coach and TV Announcer Don Meredith was Famous for?..."If it's true it ain't braggin'. "  Well, something like that, anyway.
"Staging:"  Somewhere Between Braggin' n Lie'n?I'm all-in for staging.  I help pay the cost of an initial consult by my staging colleague.  But, I've had some challenging reactions to "staging." The word, as much as the act.
I am a realtor in a ranching area, having moved here from the east coast. I would describe the culture here as "proudly WYSIWYG." In fact, any one around these parts who isn't a WYSIWYG person may as well just hunker down over yonder … (0 comments)

staging: SELL HOMES FASTER WITH BETTER PHOTOS-2: GOOD SUBJECT MATTER - 11/15/12 07:37 AM
Good Photos of Homes for Sale Require Good Subject Matter -- Part-2 in the "Sell Homes Faster with Photos" Series  
How to Prepare Our House for Sale Photo's In Part-1 we addressed how many, if not most, homes that get sold were probably first selected online by the buyer based on online photos.  So your ad campaign is no more aggressive than your photo-management.
Even inexpensive cameras can be made to portray a home as something it isn't.  Sure, the dirty, scuffed, faded, scratched interior can look deceptively similar to a new-construction fine-home.  I can't count the number of time … (0 comments)