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Whether it's your home for sale or your client's home for sale, not every seller is convinced right off the bat that staging the home is something as necessary as getting a home inspection or a pre-approved mortgage is for the buyer. So if you find yourself or your clients asking these questions,...
06/11/2010
As a real estate agent, you may be wondering why you should make the effort to convince the homeowner to stage their home.  Here are ten reasons why you should do so:   Gives You More Control - That's right.  Here's a common scenario for you -  the seller may desire a certain dollar amount for th...
05/12/2010
In 1973 a film entitled "Don't Look in the Basement" was released.  It was originally entitled "The Forgotten" in reference to the ignored patients of an insane asylum, but someone thought it would attract more movie goers with a new title.  After all, basements can be creepy.  Dark, dank and dir...
05/10/2010
One of the often overlooked rooms when staging your home for sale is the laundry room.  Most homeowners, even those who know that the home must be decluttered, neat and clean when their home is on the market, often forget about carrying this into the laundry room. And those homeowners who don't h...
05/02/2010
Recently we were asked to stage a 2-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.   The living area was problematic in that it had a pole in it and was small.  A dining area also had to be carved out of this small space. After we were just about finished staging it, a friend of my assist...
04/18/2010
The other day a real estate agent whose listings I stage for sale introduced me to someone as a "designer".  I didn't want to take the time to correct him, but I thought to myself, "This isn't the first time I've heard people use 'designer' erroneously".   I don't profess to be an "interior desig...
04/07/2010
When your home is for sale and you're living in it, it can be difficult to always keep it in show-ready condition.  After all, you, your family and your pet are living there day-to-day. But, you have to think of an Open House as opening night for a really fantastic show and present your home in i...
03/19/2010
          One might think that the arrangement of items in a bookcase is not art, but it is.  Color, balance, and space all play a big part.  Here are some hints to arranging a bookcase, whether built-in or free- standing, whether you're staging to sell or not:  First, remove all of the items fr...
03/13/2010
I recently wrote that if you ever doubted that home staging may not be the worthwhile investment everyone on the West Coast seems to think it is, updated statistics show that it is. Home staging is basically presenting a house or apartment in its best possible light so that it is attractive to th...
03/08/2010
If you ever doubted that home staging may not be the worthwhile investment everyone on the West Coast seems to think it is, updated statistics show that it is. Home staging is basically presenting a house or apartment in its best possible light so that it is attractive to the broad range of buyer...
02/26/2010
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