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In this post, Melissa Marro explains why Home Staging may be a better option for model homes than Interior Design.   It's an important distinction that home builders may not realize.  Great blog!   Wishing you a quick sale!       Kathy Strader, ASP www.MemorialStagedHomes.com Kathy@MemorialStaged...
09/14/2012
  It’s Like Jewelry for your House (Perspectives on Real Estate and More from a Home Staging Pro)         I like staging occupied homes.  For me, staging a vacant house is easy but going into a house that is decorated to the owners’ tastes and transforming it into something buyers will love is a ...
09/11/2012
The Housing Market is Pretty Good, Why Stage? (Perspectives on Real Estate and More from a Home Staging Pro)          It is pretty easy to make the argument for Home Staging when the market favors the Buyer.  The reasoning is that the house will sell faster if it is staged.  So what if houses in ...
09/04/2012
  “I Stood in Your House While People Looked At It” (Perspectives on Real Estate and More from a Home Staging Pro)          When leaving the grocery store I noticed a For Sale By Owner (a.k.a. FSBO) periodical.  Since it caught my attention, I thought I’d take it home and look it over.  While fli...
08/28/2012
Whoa! What Happened Here? (Perspectives on Real Estate and More from a Home Staging Pro)         As you can imagine, every once in a while I walk into a house and think, “Whoa! What happened here?”  What may surprise you is that it is not the house that is full of clutter that surprises me as muc...
08/21/2012
  Some Things you can’t Control (Perspectives on Real Estate and More from a Home Staging Pro)           When it comes to selling your house, there are just some things you can’t control.  Disturbing news if you’re a control freak, but you can’t very well change the location of your property, rig...
08/14/2012
Home Staging DOES NOT Have to be Expensive (Perspectives on Real Estate and More from a Home Staging Pro)           I hear it all the time. “The house is too small for the Sellers to consider Home Staging.”  What!?!  I’ve never seen a house that couldn’t benefit from Home Staging.  Yes some prope...
08/07/2012
  This Photo Will Not Sell Your Property (Perspectives on Real Estate and More from a Home Staging Pro)          Sellers often believe that after they sign the listing agreement with an Agent, they just need to sit back and wait for the Agent to sell the house.  The truth is, selling a house is a...
08/01/2012
Consider the Red Cross (Perspectives on Real Estate and More from a Home Staging Pro)           Years ago, I recall a tornado ripping through Granada, MS.  I was there for an ex’s class reunion and a friend told us about his house being completely destroyed.  The only thing left was his kitchen t...
07/25/2012
Clutter, Typical? (Perspectives on Real Estate and More from a Home Staging Pro)            So I ran across this article on Yahoo about how clutter dominates the typical American home and I had to share.  I’m not exactly sure why they needed Anthropologists to determine that most of us have clutt...
07/17/2012
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