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NAEBA Response Survey Take the survey

By Shell Brodnax

Home Stager with Real Estate Staging Association

August 22, 2007 01:50 PM

Earlier this week the National Association of Exclusive Buyers Agents released a marketing piece that communicated an enormous amount of false information regarding professional staging, stagers and our common practices. If you have not read it you can at http://activerain.com/blogsview/176725/It-Takes-A-Loton Sheron Cardin's Blog and Cindy Lin's http://activerain.com/blogsview/176228/Apparently-A-Good-Stager

In an effort to create an educational piece on the benefits of buying a staged home we have put together a short survey regarding the main criticism of their report, "repairs and or upgrades".

It is our hope to come up with some solid figures on how much home owners actually invest in repairs or upgrades before they list their property.

Thanks for the feedback, you do not have to be a member of RESA to participate and the results will be made available to everyone.

Click here to take the 10 question survey

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Cheri Dueker

Transitional Designs, LLC - Saint Louis, MO

Transitional Designs, LLC, Home Staging St. Louis

Great idea....done!

Aug 22, 2007 02:05 PM

Shell Brodnax

Real Estate Staging Association - Valley Springs, CA

CEO- RESA

Great! It will another tool all stagers can use in their marketing and it will dispell alot of staging myths!

Aug 23, 2007 04:59 AM

only a few have taken the survey but so far NO ONE has ever intentionally covered up items that needed to be repaired !! Imagine that! Lets get some more people to take the survey and have some really great results! thanks!!

Aug 23, 2007 05:05 AM

Nicola Lindsay

Nicola Lindsay ReDesign and Home Staging - Saint Stephen, NB

CRSS

GOOD IDEA AND DONE!!

Aug 23, 2007 05:54 AM

Joni Van Deventer

RoomByRoomRedesign - Midland, TX

RoomByRoomRedesign

Shell, Sheron, and Cin, very well done and said. Sheron, I believe made a very valid point about possible domestic or other violence in a home or the history of a home in general, there are lots of factors buyers should have knowledge of but if they fail to get a home inspection, there lies the culprit not the staging!

Aug 23, 2007 03:56 PM

Sheron Cardin

California Moods Inc - Selma, CA

ARTIST - A Home Stager/Sellers Best Friend!

Shell - you put together a great survey. It should make a statement that we can all be proud of. I hope every AR stager takes this survey and we can proudly publish the results. Thank you bunches. I recommended that this post be featured and I hope everyone does the same. It can really do some good.

Aug 23, 2007 04:14 PM

Ginger Foust

Certified Staging Professional - Oakhurst, CA

Home Stager Oakhurst CA, Dream Interior Redesign & Staging

Love this survey...don't like my results, but then very few of my consultations convert into actual stagings because so many homes in my area need the repairs and upgrades, from my point of view, and the sellers just don't go there. SO, those houses are still for sale or they simply keep lowering the price.

Logical consequences!

Rob, no idiots here, questions are what AR is about. In a perfect world all of the upgrades and repairs take place before the listing. AND you're right, sometimes it takes a month or more for that to happen. I've had very few clients really do what is necessary or recommended , but those that do, SELL their houses quickly, without any exceptions for my statistics.

Aug 28, 2007 02:29 AM

Rob-

Ginger said it best! Ideally homeowners should 100% prepare their house for sale before listing. If they list it and have open houses and get traffic and still have to repair light switches, patch holes, paint etc it defeats the purpose. Why bother to put a house on the market when its not ready. yes its another month with no agreement but its not likley to get an agreement and if you do then its more likley to ask for consessions.

Ideally the stager is able to help the realtors get their clients to handle these issues FIRST then get it listed and its smooth sailing. Its never too early to get started. We knew we were selling our home last Oct. so we started working on it then, little by little.

the key, get it right, make repairs, fix it all, stage it. Its ready to list, list it, get an offer, sell it, close it.

Aug 28, 2007 04:45 AM

Tina Parker

Calgary, AB

REALTOR, Associate Broker

I've done the surveys, thanks for doing this!

Aug 29, 2007 01:00 PM

Rachel Backus

Staged Makeovers - Hudson, OH

www.stagedmakeovers.com

I took the survey. I'm sure the results will suprise some. Let's face it, sellers don't want to invest money into a home that they are moving out of, too bad. We can only try to give them the best advice possible. It is up to them to follow through.

Sep 21, 2007 03:09 AM

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