Matt Muelver's (mmuelver) Blog

This is an excellent example of Showhomes' staging. Beth George and her team in California are some of the best in the business!Beth George, owner of Showhomes LA just emailed me these pics of a newly staged $2.5 million dollar home they recently contracted in Newport Coast, CA: Beth and her crew...

Here's a story about one of our many staging successes, this one in Minneapolis:   http://tinyurl.com/4pzpp8   This is a very common story for us, a high end home sits vacant or even "staged" with furniture only for months. Then Showhomes comes in and within weeks, days or even hours an offer com...

Some excellent suggestions for maximizing Craigslist.Success with craigslist really depends on several factors. 1. Be The One to Blaze the Trail. Is your area's craigslist well known and widely used? I'm in the Bay area where craigslist was born, so it is a given that this will be where it will b...

Thought this was an interesting post.  I picked it up on a link from the Apple website to the Business Week website.  One more argument for all these Realtor websites that do not think it is necessary to make them Mac-friendly because so few people use Apple products!  Looks like if that big of a...

I use my iPhone for everything. I was trying to use it to surf and comment on AR the other day and it didn't work! I couldn't select the comment text box on my iPhone. I was very surprised at this. I use my MLS system, Realtor.com, my online banking and any number of other sites on a daily basis ...

This is a really funny post. I'm always amazed at the lack of spelling and grammar used in real estate descriptions.While looking through MLS this morning I happened upon these remarks describing a property. I have copied it directly as it appeared in MLS. I'm no English Major but I can spot a fe...

Here's a nice staging job from Sacramento, CA.  http://www.realestateshows.com/327851 View the Real Estate Show by clicking on the link above. This house was recently Staged by We Stage Sacramento.  Prior to Staging, we advised the homeowner to paint out blue paint in the Family room and Master. ...

It's raining! Finally, we needed a good rain. It is chilly out too though, currently 57°. My morning run was wet and cold but I still got it done! We've been having a very mild summer here in Milwaukee, I think we finally hit 90° yesterday for the first time all summer. Where'd that global warmin...

I've been embroiled in a discussion of reverse mortgages on AR recently as a detractor of the idea. I don't feel that it is a good product since is plunges the elderly back into debt at a time in their lives when they can least afford it. I thought it was interesting to see that Fannie Mae has en...

This post lays out the case for buying and selling rent-to-own properties. I think that this is a trend that may start to catch on here in Milwaukee.The global housing market has been slowing for quite some time. That is why the current times is deemed the best for investing in rent to own proper...