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Home Staging Benefits Lighthouse Community Development

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The Great Lakes Regional IAHSP Chapter has used their professional Home Staging skills and great sense of community involvement to benefit low income family rental housing.  The open house ceremonies are this Saturday July 19, from 3:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M.  Information from the press release follows:

GREAT LAKES REGIONAL IAHSP AND LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY

HOME STAGING WITH A NEW TWIST

Pontiac, MI (July 16, 2008) The Great Lakes Regional International Association of Home

Staging Professionals® Chapter (GLRIC) will showcase their Home Staging efforts at the

Lighthouse Community Development Open House Ceremonies on Saturday July 19, 2008 from

3:00 until 8:00pm located at Beacon Square Apartments, 101 Mechanic in Pontiac. "The

renovated and new construction low income family rental housing development have been

professionally Staged by IAHSP® participating members with a zero budget", says Carolyn

Stieger co-lead of the Staging committee. "Just like you see on the home improvement shows,

we found create ways to make both properties look like you're coming home." Shuttle buses will

be available for guests to preview each property Beacon Square Apartments and Beacon

Townhomes. You can view our work and tour both properties during the Open House free of

charge or you can join us for the festivities for a minimal fee, to purchase tickets call 248-920-

6000 extension 2123 or visit www.lighthouseoakland.org.

The Great Lakes Regional IAHSP Chapter of Home Staging Professionals have Staged a 2

bedroom apartment at 101 Mechanic and a 3 bedroom Town home off Whittemore Street, using

furniture provided by The Furniture Bank of Southeast Michigan. "By utilizing the loan of

furniture, artwork and some accessories combined with our Staging inventories, we have been

able to create a welcome and warm feeling for any potential renter", says Heather Roberts colead

of the Staging Committee. This was a fun opportunity to think outside the box and make

these properties look great." The Lighthouse Community Development Open House Event is to

showcase the renovation and construction of a 28 apartment facility and 12 three bedroom town

homes available for low income families.

The Great Lakes Regional IAHSP chapter members, located throughout southeast Michigan,

usually work with Realtors and home owners preparing their homes for sale. By participating in

this event we want to bring consumer attention to the importance of using Home Staging® to

prepare homes for a quick and profitable sale regardless of size, price or location. All properties

can benefit from Home Staging. Each room in the event has been professionally prepared by

ASP's® trained through StagedHomes.com®, the world standard in Staging education. All of

the IAHSP® Chapter members are Accredited Staging Professionals® (ASPs). For more

information visit the website: http://greatlakeschapter.iahsp.com/home.php

"We can improve the lives of others through our magic of ASP® Home Staging. When we serve

in this way, the benefits to the lives of others are far reaching," says Barb Schwarz, The Creator

of Home Staging, and President of IAHSP® International.

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leader in standard in Staging education® are Federally Registered Trademarks of

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