This week I have had no staging jobs. As far as I am concerned that is good news. The past year has been a blur of never ending, 24/7 work setting up my business, getting financing, establishing business credit , procuring inventory and finally staging and destaging. Along with the actual work
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05/20/2007
I cannot say this enough. It keeps coming up. Realtors need to be educated, homeowners need to be educated. If each stager got one company on board, wrote a column in a local pub, preferably a real estate pub that is read by the public then the word would get out. It is a process and takes pl
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05/15/2007
I have had quite a few calls lately about pricing and how I go about it. This is what I do:1. Calculate all costs accurately, this includes inventory, inventory carrying costs,(if you have inventory on a credit card and pay a finance charge this can be hefty) inventory transportation costs( de
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05/15/2007
Seems to me a lot of issues could be resoved if we, as stagers, decide if we are in a profession or doing a job.I consider staging a bonafide profession like Realtor, Doctor, Attorney, CPA. Many stagers are highly educated, have had other professions, jobs, businesses and other varied background
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05/11/2007
This blog was inspired by Phyllis Pafumi's blog on "When the budget is tight."Phyllis, I have an idea about how to pay for the staging when the budget is tight. What if, when you initially contract with the Realtor, you had a clause in the agreement that allowed for the initial cost of your fee
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05/10/2007
I am sitting in my stressless chair, watching 'Law and Order" listening to the evening Thrush, the Orchard Oriole, the Robin's night song, and watching the night fall slowly over Humpback Rock on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The' spousal unit ' is reading, trying to ignore 'Law and Order' wonderi
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05/09/2007
You know what? The world's newest profession is one that 'trend forward' realtors will come to embrace in a flat hurry. The reason they will come around is that with inventory being an all time high and sales slowing, they Have to get smarter and more creative. Photos, real estate shows, virt
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04/30/2007
Family room before Dining room before Master bedroom before Master Bath before Family Room After Dining Room AfterMaster Bedroom After Master Bath After Boy's room 1 B-4Boy's Room 1 After Boy's Bedroom 2 B-4Boy's Bedroom 2 After Toddler's Room B-4Toddler's Room After Eat-in kitchen B-4 Afte
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04/28/2007
We had finally found, we thought, a truly squirrel-proof bird feeder. Lasted all winter with nothing but birds. Then the spring squirrel crop was born. We had not counted on baby raiders getting into the sunflower seed. Does he not look guilty? Not that I would actually try anthropomorphizin
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04/23/2007
Cutleaf ToothwortWould she be as beautiful if no one saw her? Not one cell of her being can man create, and yet, he may carelessly trample the delicate perfection and never know she existed. Whose loss is this? Will the wind cease refreshing? Will the stream stop singing, or the rain stop fall
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04/22/2007
