A really neat way to stage a property!

Ran out last evening to show a property. Before going I reviewed the home online of course. Just another really old weathered home in town here in Hanover Pa. The owners have passed and it is being sold. Nothing too special I think.

I pull and my thoughts are really not to bad from the curb. Maybe I am not wasting gas on this showing.

Well let me tell you ...I greet my clients and in we go. I stand in the Living room and take a look around.My eyes are greeted  with the homes history.  On the wall is a family portrait . It is  a MOM and Dad with there 9 children. 8 girls and one boy. Taken maybe around the late 70's?  On the other wall is a large plaque with the children's names and birth dates listed on it. Kind of neat! On the china cabinet sitting in the room is the Obituary from 2009 where DAD had passed away in his wife's arms. After 76 years of marriage! WOW.

As we go through the home there are trinkets of family history here and there. There was a charm bracket MOM wore with all of her children names and birth dates on display. There was the hospital bed where MOM? must have spent her last days . No one seemed to want to put it away just yet.

In the kitchen there was the keys to whatever hung on a nail beside the door. Just like my Grandfather did with his gargae key!

Upstairs in the bedroom was a homemade blanket across the bed. More of moms handy work!

There where pictures of the kids growning up scatted about. Marks on the wall where they where measured for height each year.

The yard still had the sitting area where you could see MOM and Dad had spent a many year just enjoying there life together. The old garage still had some very old things men collect .

Long story short we all left with the feeling that this was not just anther old home in town. This place even thought very worn was someones history! Where they shared there holidays , raised there family, shared there sorrows, Laughed , cried, children left one at a time to get married, grand kids came to visit, and some stayed until God called them home.

I was touched. I do not know if the home was ment to tell this story but it did!  Another life lesson!