home stager: WHOSE PICTURE IS ON YOUR BUSINESS CARD? - 02/17/11 02:58 AM
Don't you just hate it when vanity gets the better of someone, particularly someone you want to reference by looking at their business card.  Have you been to a Broker's Open, collected all the REA's cards, gone home and not been able to match the cards to the people you met? 
I promised myself that would never be me, but sure enough, looking at my new professional photo taken at the 2011 RESA Conference and comparing it with my active rain profile picture of 2006, I think...  all I can say is how time flies when you're having a good time.  … (16 comments)

home stager: CAUGHT BETWEEN A SELLER AND AN AGENT...WHAT'S A HOME STAGER TO DO? - 12/05/10 11:54 AM
The Cast:
Me, your successful, resourceful accomodating professional home stager.
A Realtor, quite young and new to me and the business, but from a great office I'd love to do more business with.
A seller, with a somewhat tough condo to sell.
The condo, a well renovated vacant unit in a totally great building in a sort of iffy block (between a body shop and an alley) in the up and coming Shaw neighborhood of Washington, DC.
The Situation:
When the sellers bought the unit the front room was presented as a living room.  So, they wanted it staged as a living room. 
The … (27 comments)

home stager: FIRST CAME THE KODAK V570, NOW???? - 12/05/10 11:26 AM
Based on recommendations by ActiveRainers like Jeff Turner, Mike Stankewich, Frank Llosa back in 2007, just about every real estate picture and virtual tour I have successfully produced over the last 3 years in my Home Staging business (check my ActiveRain profile, too) has been shot with my trusty Kodak V570 point and shoot digital camera with its wonderful wide angle lens, but... lately, I've been asked to step up my game, photographically speaking.  Help. 
I looked into a Nikon D90, but was aghast at the price, over $1000 to start!
I was recommended by the salesman to look at the Nikon D3100, about $600, but … (48 comments)

home stager: HOW DOES HOME STAGING PRICING WORK? - 09/07/10 05:24 AM
How DOES a Home Stager establish PRICE?
Q:  What will it take to make this transition from this?  Seriously.
 
A:  Vision.  Time.  Effort.  Inventory. 
First some questions for YOU-AND for the STAGER...
  
Q:  Is your house Vacant?
A:  What kind and how much furniture will we need for this property?  What will our moving expenses look like?
  
Q:  Is your house Occupied?      Are there kids, pets, smokers?  Neatniks or slobs?
A:  What are the issues will to overcome to interest buyers in this property?
 
Q:  How old is the place?  Good repair?  How many different colors … (1 comments)

home stager: Sunny N Potomac Gets a New Lease on Life - 02/13/10 10:38 AM
If ony it were as easy to rejuvenate a person as it is to bring a home back up to speed!  This luxury 1990 home hadn't seen updates in its whole life.  To sell, it needed some and of course at least Key Room Staging.

See BEFORE and AFTER pictures on my Washington DC Area Home Staging blog.
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Patricia Ebrahimi, Home Staging the Washington DC Area from Rockville MD (SHOW SMART! HOME STAGING & Color Consultant)

Patricia Ebrahimi

Home Staging the Washington DC Area from Rockville MD

Rockville, MD

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SHOW SMART! HOME STAGING & Color Consultant

Address: Town Center, Rockville, MD, 20850

Mobile: (757) 619-9789

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