Last week I was feeling dissed by the Realtor--what a difference a week makes. As usual, I learned more about myself, and this business of home staging being a team effort ,than I did about anything else. Mainly, I learned not to be a hothead who is overly protective of my own position. In th
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03/11/2007
Ok, so the blessing is that everything is rockin' along just fine and I get a call from staging client and it went like this, "you won't believe this , but the realtor brought your information over last night and they both said I didn't need you. You have your work cut out for you trying to edu
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03/05/2007
I know a lot of people who feel like Meryl Streep's character in Lemony Snickets, but I love my Realtor. I met her quite by accident in a shop on the side of the road going up to our local mountain resort. When people move out they just leave the furnishings for the taking or pay someone to ta
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03/01/2007
Yesterday I was working at my desk trying to refine my power point presentation and figure out how to send it via email so it was easy and quick to download. The phone was ringing off the hook about all the ads I had placed, the i-net directory listings I had subscribed too and, well you all kno
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03/01/2007
As a member of a couple of real estate associations I take advantage of every educational opportunity possible. Today's seminar was about relocation. Its a big deal for banks, corporations and real estate companies specializing in re-lo. The implication for stagers seemed to be another way to
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02/22/2007
Thank all of you who have commented on my blogs. You (we) are such a positive lot, and in a very constructive way. What an incredible learning environment. How different we are and yet so much alike in the obstacles we face on a daily basis and being a part of this group "makes the sum of the
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02/19/2007
A "HAMLET" as a designation, for a populated group in a specific geographic area, is technically a farmstead, or a group of farmsteads as defined by old English tradition. It can be small, in acres or miles, or it can be spread out over quite a distance of miles. A hamlet in English tradition h
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02/19/2007
One of the aspects of home staging that I enjoy the most is that each home, each homeowner, realtor and the personal dynamics that come into play in what can be a stressful situation, fascinate me. For that reason, and for the fact that personality quirks on the part on all the players ,along w
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02/18/2007
Nelson County, Virginia has come of age. I was born here and it was , at that time, one of the poorest counties in the U. S. and it was the poorest in Virginia. We installed the first traffic light in the county last year. This is not the only sign that things have changed, despite the fact th
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02/15/2007
