HOME STAGING WITH STAGERIGHT HOME STAGING IN MICHIGAN

I just had a great vacant property that I was asked to stage.  The rooms were great, the location was great and lots of nice amenities but we needed to paint, for a number of reasons.  We needed to paint to give the property a nice, fresh look.  It was a newer home and was just a tiny bit tired, ...

It is time to get serious about selling your property.  I have recently read two blogs that really hit home with me.  One was about MLS photos and the other was about gimmicks to get properties to move.  I would like to address both. Pictures:  If you are serious about selling your property then ...

STAGING A KIDS' BATHROOM Home staging is about presenting/marketing a property to the widest customer base.  That is accomplished by accenting the square footage, amenities, character and possibilities a home has to offer while still remaining neutral enough to interest most "lookers".  You try v...

The benefits of belonging to a true trade organization are countless.  In southwest and south central Michigan, home staging is realitvely new on the scene.  There are stagers popping up here and there, some are trained some are not, some are insured, some are not, some are ethical and some are n...

  THERE IS NO ROI ON STAGING YOUR PROPERTY FOR SALE! Really?  I know, I am still dizzy from shock but I heard it and was stunned.  I can understand why people or even agents may think that their property or their listing doesn't need staging.  I get that.  The connotation may be that there is som...

We were at dinner with friends last week end and of course they asked how the business was coming.  "Good" I said.  The husband really wanted to argue about how home staging was just a way to get home owners to spend more money that they couldn't recoup in a down market.  So I asked, "if you had ...

STAGING A CRAMPED SPACE! We have all had the problem of a small space with lots of furniture or large furniture or both.  In a perfect world we would remove some of the furniture or bring in smaller pieces.  Ah but the world is an imperfect place and we are a solution based group of stagers.  Her...

When staging a property a professional home stager will find useable square footage.  Square footage adds value.  A stager will do this several different ways.  Decluttering is one way to show the useable square footage of a home.  Perspective home buyers will need to see beyond "you" when they v...

Home owners who stage to their taste.  This is a difficult scenario to run into.  I had this experience when requested to do a walk through of a homeowner staged property.  The home owner promptly told me that she knows what she likes to see and that is how she prepared her property.  If the end ...

This property was an awesome property, and had been on the market 2 1/2 years.  The neighborhood was great, the maintenance was perfect, the condition was perfect but it was a bit dated and vacant with no furniture or accessories.  This property needed some updating and freshening to make it stan...