Becky's Blog on Home Staging

There's a new trend in the real estate market; Home Staging. Although the concept of Home Staging has been around since the early 1970's, it has become more popular in the past few years thanks to home improvement shows such as HGTV's Designed to Sell, A&E's Sell this House and WE's Take This Hou...

There's a new trend in the real estate market; Home Staging. Although the concept of Home Staging has been around since the early 1970's, it has become more popular in the past few years thanks to home improvement shows such as HGTV's Designed to Sell, A&E's Sell this House and WE's Take This Hou...

Ok, so I have hopped on the RES bandwagon.  I made my first RES and I had so much fun! Trying to let people know what I do and how valuable my service is is hard. Hopefully this will help.Let me know if this looks good for my website. Any advice would be appreciated.  Thanks http://www.realestate...

After a month of planning and advertising, I had my first public home staging seminar.  It was free, held at my local library on a Sunday afternoon and 12 people showed up including my first client.  Although I was a little disappointed, figured 12 is better than 0. (My client was there to give t...

Ok, I don't call myself a home stager as I have not been through any "official" training.  I prefer to call myself a home staging consultant and a home stylist.  I have been helping friends and family members prepare their homes (for sale or to live) for years so after staging my own home last ye...

I belong to a networking group and met with one of my fellow members for a one to one to find out about each other's business and how we can help each other by referrals.  This member has a carpet cleaning, tile & grout cleaning, janitorial business and we could exchange referrals easily.  We wen...

Branding - A brand is a customer experience represented by a collection of images and ideas; often, it refers to a symbol such as a name, logo, slogan, and design scheme. Branding is a way of getting people to remember you. For example, if you see the golden arches, you immediately think McDonald...

Have you seen or heard about home staging and would like to have your house or listing staged, but you're afraid?Afraid staging is expensive? (It's less than you think!)Afraid staging will disrupt your life? (It will actually help keep your house in a "show ready" state.)Afraid your house is not ...

As stated in my first blog, I love going to Open Houses.  Drove around my neighborhood today and there was this one house that was unbelievable. As usual there were signs out leading me to this Open House.  The front of the house wasn't bad but it was blah.  Could have used some color.  Ok, so I ...

There are two prices when it comes to selling a house.  There is the "asking or listing" price and there is the "value or worth" price.  Let me explain the difference between the two.  Have you even been to the grocery store to buy a can of something and you pick up one can and it has a dent in i...