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Trends, they sure are different now a days!

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Realty Services

I just came from one of my listings.  I was there with my stager trying to figure out what we can do to give this listing some umph!  It is a single person who travels a lot for their work and they don't spend much time in the house, therefore it is pretty basic.  It has very nice features, just needs some pizazz!

We moved furniture around,  put knick knacks here and there and we cleaned the house.  It was not terrible, but we found the wall paint touched it up vacuumed, cleaned, reorganized the pantry etc.  It looks amazing.  Thank God for her.

As I looked around the house though it made me laugh. The house is pretty much what I call REALTOR(R) Beige.  That is the techincal color names on the color wheel!!  You know, white walls, tan carpet, neutral hardwood floors. Now, I can't tell you back in the olden days how hard we work to get our sellers to strip wall paper, paint their decorator walls and get rid of their hunter green carpet all in the name of getting your house ready for the market.  Honest to God.  Rip out all of that work, we figured that it needed to be as plain as possible so the new buyer could imagine "their colors and decorations" through out the house, not yours?

Now, my REALTOR(R) Beige listings have the hardest time.  "It has no personality" I hear.  So we get them staged and have some fun "pow" to the home.

While I was there I told my decorator/stager "do you know hard we used to work to get our sellers to get their homes to be as neutral as possible?"  We laughed and just said times are different now.  I will be excited to see how the home buyers feel about the house now and how important staging a home is in this market!

Funny how the business has evolved and we have a new industry so to speak because of it, kind of cool?

Comments (3)

Colorado Real Estate - Christina
Colorado Real Estate - Colorado Springs, CO

That is so true!! Times have changed alot...

Mar 20, 2008 07:23 AM
Anthon Pang
iPro Realty Ltd., Brokerage - Mississauga, ON
Broker

Even worse ... REALTOR Beige has invaded my own home.

Mar 20, 2008 08:33 AM
Audrey June-Forshey
RE/MAX Realty Services - Darnestown, MD
GRI, Gaithersburg, MD

Christina, Thanks for stopping by.

Anthon, me too.  I need to change mine and give it some spunk!

Mar 20, 2008 08:59 AM