Home Staging For You

My First Home Buying Experience Since Carol Williams and I have asked you to share your experience with us, in this month's ActiveRain Challenge...Tell Us About YOUR First Home Buying Experience, it’s only fair that I share mine. However, I remember very little about it!!! It was in 1980, with lo...

Wordless Wednesday…A Child’s View When the wee ones are over, they love to go upstairs and play in the loft area. I have no idea why but that’s what they do. Wouldn’t you love to know what’s going through the heads of these precious little girls!?!If you carry your childhood with you, you never b...

Tuesdays Treasures…Family Fun Easter Sunday we had family over and as usual it was fun and crazy. Imagine everyone talking at once!  We began with 27 but that number grew to 35, including my neighbors across the street. I learned from my grandmother that there’s always room for more. After lunch,...

Motivational Monday…Priorities We all have things we want to do…places we’d rather be…people we want to be around. However, life has a way of putting situations before us that force us to choose between what we want to do and what we know we should do.  Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a ...

  Posts Just For You- This Week at ActiveRain April 2 to April 8, 2023  Every day there is something to learn here at ActiveRain.  With this series, I try to highlight posts that gave me that lightbulb moment. It could be something techie, something about Real Estate or other professions, about a...

This Week…Hope and RenewalThis week has been overcast and rainy. Some Easter egg hunts have been postponed or moved indoors. However, there is hope…and that means tomorrow…Easter Sunday, we should have warm temperatures and no rain! The great gift of Easter is hope.  Basil C Hume Larry and I will...

Good Friday Wishes Good Friday is a solemn day for Christians. While families will come together on Easter Sunday, with dinners, picnics, and, of course, Easter egg hunts, none of this means anything without the selfless act of one Man.   It seems to me that if one Man would do this for all of us...

ActiveRain Blogging Tips …Your Feature Image With some new faces on the blogroll, I thought it was time for a reminder about the Feature Image. What is that???When Ben Kinney updated and refreshed the site last year, he wanted a cleaner “newsy” look to the site. This meant that for any post to be...

Wordless Wednesday…They Have Arrived Larry and I love this time of year because we become volunteer caretakers of the birds near us. We’ve had 3 bluebirds fledge into their new world just last week.  This weekend we had the Carolina Chickadee babies hatch (they became our new tenants in the forme...

Home Staging Tip …Staging Band-Aids Aren’t Always the Answer How a property presents to a buyer is always important but in a market where buyers are being cautious in their investments, it is even more so.  I  had an investor/couple who was having trouble selling a home they’d just rehabbed. They...