Jacksonville Real Estate and Home Staging

What kind of an offer should I make on Northeast Florida homes for sale?    Market statistics are a funny thing. While they seem like gobbly gook to many people, if you really look at them, they will tell you a lot. Today I'm going to use them for some answers on what kind of an offer you should ...

How does the NEFL Real Estate Market look 5 Yrs After the Crash?    RealEstate.com recently released an intriguing infographic about how much money was lost during the real estate crash (an estimated $9 Trillion) and how much has been regained since then (an estimated $3.2 Trillion in the last ni...

Have you heard of Fiverr?    I listen to an online podcast called Small Business, Big Marketing. They keep talking about this website called Fiverr. It's all about what people will do for $5. There are a lot of really comical things like writing & singing a ukelele song for you for $5, but there ...

Stephen Covey used to say that you needed to take to sharpen your saw. Work, work, and more work leaves you dull and makes completing the job more difficult. Taking the time to sharpen your tools, in the end actually will save you time and effort. Still unfortunately, this is a task that usually ...

What the cat brought home... beating the odds.   First let me say that this has nothing to do with real estate. This is just a little feel good story of a squirrel that we've been raising over the past several weeks...    Pulling up in the driveway, we noticed that our cat, Penny, had something s...

Where is your local real estate market? Do you think it is like or unlike the new Active Rain infographic?  This is a great contest to showcase how things are in our various markets across the country and earn some additional points in the process. I can't wait to see how other markets are fairin...

2 FREE Home Staging Consultation Reports in 30 days, no payment info required   I've been talking a lot about Market Ready Real Estate's home staging consultation tool lately. (Probably because I've been using it for my customers and it's so great to be able to get it done in the home, while I'm ...

3 Tribes you may belong to that can kill a real estate deal.   Did you know that you belong to a tribe? You may belong to more than one. That's OK, just don't let your seller know which tribes they are.  Here are the three big tribes that can kill a deal when selling your home.      Politics - I ...

How a simple handwritten card turned into 50+ homes per year in sales   Moving from Charleston, SC, and selling my home staging company was a difficult decision. Earlier this year, I decided that I really missed the business and opened Rave ReViews Home Staging in St Augustine, FL, our new home. ...

Sometimes the home sells just because the stager showed up.   Last night I sent a follow up email to an agent customer asking if their customers had decided to proceed with our home staging services. Their condo has been on the market for over a year. It needs wallpaper removal, painting (lots of...