staging: ‘Bad Staging’? Hmmm…Depends On Your View…
- 11/05/07 04:56 AM
This weekend I had the opportunity to spend some time playing in the RAIN... While working my way through a veritable smorgasbord of literary delights, I came across an interesting post from Judy Kincaid . She had correctly identified an important aspect of home staging: highlighting the best features that stay with the home. Judy‘s post provides us with her opinion regarding some staging that was performed on an episode of Get It Sold! , a series on HGTV. Judy remarks upon the importance of highlighting the features that stay with the home, not the props that will be leaving with the sale. Particularly, she disagrees … (49 comments)
staging: Home Staging In The Real World: Knowledge, Communication and Realism
- 08/11/07 07:51 AM
Recently, at a networking event, I became engrossed in a conversation about home staging. As a Realtor® who is also a home stager, it seems I was "ripe for the picking". I was subjected to some "complaints" from a builder and a couple of Realtors® who had hired stagers (not me) for some of their properties. Their complaints? The cost to themselves and/or their clients (i.e., inflated charges and "overdone decorating") and the amount of time the properties were languishing on the market. I was soon able to determine that they all had a very unrealistic perception of the benefits of staging. … (38 comments)
This weekend I had the opportunity to spend some time playing in the RAIN...;)
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