Staging & Selling Montreal West Island Homes

I'm feeling confessional...again.  So here are 3 things I thought I knew about selling real estate...before I actually started selling real estate. #1 - Before "There's no excuse for a house not looking great in MLS pictures.  And seriously?  You couldn't get the cat out of the bedroom long enoug...

Have you got clutter?  A linen closet that takes a full-on tackle to close?  A cabinet under the kitchen sink that looks like a product testing lab for household cleaning products?  Bin upon bin in the basement that may or may not contain your grade 7 report card? Well then, it might be time to m...

Did you consider location before your flip flopped?  I didn't think so. When you first saw the house on MLS, it was probably too good to be true.  Or rather, it was so bad it was good.  But here's the thing: Even when you flip houses, the 3 most important things in real estate are still location,...

I've been reading a lot of Seth Godin lately, in particular his blog.  Lately, Seth has been pushing us to push ourselves - not to work harder or faster, but rather to work on the things that matter, the things that can make a difference to the way we, and the world at large, think, feel and do. ...

A funny cute charming annoying thing has happened as I age [ahem] "gracefully": I have developed a mid-day shine on my forehead.  Call it the development of combination skin commonly associated with women of a certain age, if you must.  Better yet, just hand me a napkin and tell me to wipe it off...

Warning: This is a bit of a rant. My son lost his iPod Touch on the bus yesterday.  Today, the bus driver returned it to him.  I was not surprised - I was happy, but not surprised.  Others were surprised.  I absolutely refuse to expect the worst in people.   "Ha! Poor girl. Is she ever gonna get...

I had an "audition" for a strange yet intriguing Montreal home staging project last week. Of course, I didn't know it was an audition, but I guess it would be safe to assume that all of our first contacts with clients are auditions, right? We went through the house room by room, top to bottom, an...

Last week, a writer from PropertyWire.ca interviewed me for an article on home staging and its impact on the home selling process.  PropertyWire is a new Canadian on-line community of real estate and mortgage professionals. The PropertyWire article on home staging, "Staging as Added Value to Your...

A couple of nights ago, I was out for dinner with my girlfriends, and though the evening felt like a group hug for my soul, I also learned some important lessons about my business. 1. "I was afraid to ask you to help me find a home because I know you're so busy and I didn't want to burden you." W...

I have a love/hate relationship with January.  I love the feeling of renewal and fresh beginnings that comes with the first month of the year.  But by the last week of this torturous, outrageously long, cold, dark, icy month, I'VE HAD IT! And so it was that last night I dragged my sorry, grumpy s...