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Getting reacquainted with the NY housing market after living in Atlanta for 3 years and looking to start staging again!
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Of course, no one wants to put anymore money into the home than they 'have to'.  Oh, I got that loud and clear!  It seems it's the first words uttered when I arrive to do consultations or give an estimate.  So, with a trusty consultation report guide in hand, I make my list of all necessary and r...
07/26/2007
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Because I have sole custody of my children and I have moved out of state, I am legally responsible for making sure they get back to NY as much as possible to visit their father and, of course, visit with the rest of the family.  So, a couple of weeks ago I flew up north with my two children.  The...
07/07/2007
 I just started flipping through a new book that my mother sent me, Color Your Life by Elaine Ryan.  Although I haven't gotten too far into the book, it begins with explaining why we choose, or don't choose, certain colors in our homes.  She mentions how most of use have been trained to rely on w...
06/03/2007
While I am a fairly new member of the home staging industry, I am not new to merchandising things to sell, which, essentially, is what staging a home is.  My experience in merchandising is taking, say, a pair of jeans and making it a complete lifestyle.  One week those jeans might be paired up wi...
05/09/2007
Every few days, I click through listings searching for my next prospective client.  I love the FSBO listings the most because the homes are typically in the same condition:  A) Vacant (which tells me it's usually an investment property) or B) Occupied, that an attempt was made at cleaning it up. ...
05/05/2007
OK, OK, as quick as I had my appointment scheduled for yesterday I lost it just as quickly.  It's OK though.  I wanted to curse and yell...well, I'll be honest, I did when I got the message that she was cancelling.  What was the reason for cancelling?  AHHH, her realtor sent over a stager on Tues...
04/26/2007
YAY!  YAY!  YAY!OK, I'm not a cheerleader in any way, shape or form but I almost jumped off my desk chair this afternoon!  I mailed out 80 postcards to local homes listed in my zip code on Saturday.  About 10 minutes after I got off the phone getting my account set up to accept credit cards for t...
04/23/2007
I'm stopping what I'm doing to write this.  I just came across this company, Showhomes of America that advertises FREE vacant home staging from a link on a Coldwell Banker realtor's site.  Of course, I had to read further.  How could they stage a vacant home for free, and WHY would one offer to d...
04/19/2007
Branding.  Brand Image.  Brand.  Brand Experience.  Brand Name.  Brand Recognition.Hhhmmm.  I stumbled across these terms, plus some, doing some research about Brands in Wikipedia.  (I wanted to provide the link but I can't figure it out...even with the tutorial I read yesterday.  Sorry!)  The fi...
04/18/2007
Coming up on my 10 month anniversary here as a resident of Woodstock, GA I can say that I am HOME, for sure.  Being born and raised in the same 2 mile radius of NYC for my entire life, I expected complete culture shock when I moved here.  Luckily, I can say, I have adjusted very well to my new su...
04/17/2007
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