Obviously, ALL of my clients are currently "sellers", but what is often ignored is that they are also "buyers" on the flip side. They have made the decision to list for sale, so obviously they have to start their search for their new home. So, they also fit the demographic of "buyer" when I am wo
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12/05/2010
A Professional Home Stager is invested in ensuring that the ground-work they do with a seller HELPS the Realtors® to experience nothing but a seamless process with their client. If this is not a paramount goal in the Home Stager's mind, they are in the wrong profession. A Home Stager will NOT suc
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11/21/2010
I have Realtors®, home-sellers, and potential clients ask me consistently. As a Home Staging Professional, I love to blog on regularly expressed areas of concern or confusion. Statistics.... If you have been keen on the Real Estate Market for any amount of time, you have seen or heard all of the
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11/20/2010
The Holiday season is approaching quickly, and, for many of us, this time of year is quite bitter-sweet. This is supposed to be a joyous time of year where we get to spend quality time with loved ones. But, more people than we realize are plagued with the inability to invite visitors into their h
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11/20/2010
A mandatory, but over-looked, key to Selling a Property Successfully! It is not your "home" anymore, so a shift in mentality is in order. Perhaps the most difficult, yet necessary, adjustments to make when selling your "home" is letting go of all emotional attachments. "Home IS where the heart is
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11/20/2010
The world of Home Staging includes many "out-of-the-box" concepts, or abstract ideas. Home Staging is not solely about preparing a property for sale, and does not strictly deal with pretty presentation. There is so much more to this profession than most people realize. And, this is precisely why
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11/12/2010
It simply baffles me. There "IT" is, much like a gleaming gemstone, sitting right in front of Realtors®, yet most of you turn your back, and adopt an attitude of "If it isn't broken, don't fix it". It is "broken" if you are making less than your full potential! This is much like continuing to att
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11/11/2010
The Brick...one of Canada's Largest Furnishing Retailers, right? How does The Brick suck the buyer in to purchasing more than what they were planning to purchase? VIGNETTES! Go to The Brick, and walk around their store, even just for a few minutes. Take note of how their furniture pieces, accesso
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11/11/2010
I LOVE Active Rain, and I certainly value the ability to throw ideas out to an amazingly qualified and professional crowd. My question is this: Do you see value in my new Home Staging Service outlined below? Do you view this as a tool that would be valuable to Realtors(R) and Home Sellers? I woul
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10/22/2010
This is going to be the most valuable new tool in the Real Estate Industry!! How does one Home Staging Professional based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada provide services to anyone in the WORLD, you ask? How does this end up saving the client 75% of their TIME, and 44% of their MONEY? I knew you wer
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10/22/2010
