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 Sellers:  7 Mistakes That Can Keep You From Selling Your House   Not many showings?  Little interest in your property?  Control what you can control + make sure that you aren't doing any of these: Forgetting that your property is now a product:  As soon as you decide to sell, your house is now a...

Sellers:  What Apple + Starbuck's Can Teach You About Selling Your House Selling a home today can be challenging but if you think about your property as a product, you can help your realtor market it much more effectively.  We can actually learn a lot about how to successfully sell a product from...

The Stager's Dilemma To all who posted on my blog "Realtors Set Yourself Apart: Don't Offer Staging, Offer These Three Things" you have brought up so many of the common resistances that people have to staging: money they like the status quo fear of the unknown they don't know they need it money t...

  So Who Should Pay the Stager? Based on all of the great feedback (thank you!) to my last blog post, Realtors Set Yourself Apart: Don't Offer Staging, Offer These 3 Things, it is clear that we are definitely still in new territory when it comes to real estate staging.  The average seller doesn't...

Realtors Set Yourself Apart:  Don't Offer Staging,  Offer These 3 Things I was reading Seth Godin's blog this morning and he asks the question, "What do clients and customers want?"  He then goes on to answer his question with three things:  results, thrills, and ego.  Once again, he got me think...

Another New Way to Introduce Staging to Clients  I've been away from the Rain for a little while and am coming back with so much to blog about.  But first, I have a question.  Give me a minute, I'll get to it... I often hear from my Realtor friends that they have a hard time selling the idea of S...

A New Approach For Recommending Home Staging I have recently had many conversations with Realtors who tell me that they have a difficult time bringing up the topic of Home Staging with their clients.  When they do, they find that clients can be resistant because it seems insulting to suggest that...

Home Stagers There are so many good reasons for realtors to work with  Home Stagers but these may be some of the most important ones.... Our goals are the same This is critical to remember when determining if you should work with Home Stagers.  Realtors and Home Stagers are both looking for a pro...

best public schools in montgomery county, pa There are so many fabulous reasons to live in Montgomery County, PA.  If you have kids, like I do, one important factor on your list of reasons to move to a community is the caliber of the schools.  I feel so fortunate to live in a place where we have...

8 Things that Make Fort Washington, PA Great   A transplanted New Englander, I have really come to love living in the Philadelphia Suburbs and especially in Fort Washington, PA.  If you are considering moving to Philadelphia, here are 10 things that make Fort Washington, PA great: 1. Our Schools:...