Mona Lisa's Blog

TWEAK Home Staging has the numbers that agents are looking for. I ran the numbers again this week for days on market for my homes that I stage. I computed the Days on Market for how many days it was on market after I staged and until it went under contract. All homes were in the Greenville SC mar...

If you have read a few of my blogs, you know that I recently staged a house that has had some great stories emerge. Well, it gets better. The agent on the house told me today that he has a verbal contract and the paper is on the way. YEAH!!! Less than 20 days on Market after staging. The house ha...

I mentioned in a previous blog on my page about the homeseller who said to "do whatever you need to do to sell this house, only don't touch the cuckoo clock", and left town. I staged and immediately started getting showings. (After 6 months on the market with no interest) Now I get am email from ...

November usually signals the beginning of the "slow season" for real estate. And of course the numbers bear that out.  However, if it's YOUR house that needs to be sold right now, you don't want to hear about the "slow season" or any other excuse for your house not selling. There are always buyer...

 A couple of blogs ago, I mentioned a staging project that was going to be dramatic. It is. It's an occupied property that had too much personalization. The owner left town and said "Do whatever you need to do to sell. Only don't touch the cuckoo clock."  I've posted the first round of Before and...

Even staging has paperwork....and returns. The folks at Lowe's and Home Depot are always so nice and patient with me as I show up with 3 bags of odd items left over from 3 months of staging projects and 20 receipts. I often don't know what came from which store. They scan and scan and seach and s...

Spent almost all day at a property near Cherrydale in Greenville. The property has been on the market for  6 months with no interest. New agent brought me in right away for a staging consultation. This is going to be one of the most dramatic make overs I've done. I can see why the house had no in...