Hanging around Stagers with all their talents as a Realtor I have learned a thing or two. First off their biggest value add is that their gift and special touch allow homes to be sold faster. Second you can choose from many plans from them: home selling consultation, staging of occupied homes, st
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04/19/2008
I travel inside many pre-owned homes on showings with buyers and previewing for buyers. I have concluded that many homeowners are clueless about staging a home or the listing agent is clueless in far too many instances about preparing a home properly for sale.I say don't try this on your own, but
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04/19/2008
I haven't quite always figured out my purpose or purposes in life at times, but I know one mission I have is to stamp out self-doubt. Nothing is more detrimental to your place in the world.I see it with buyers remorse in real estate. I see it in fledgling careers of entrepreneurial types such as
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04/18/2008
I've always been one in life to completely miss the obvious of what others see. I call it having a reverse wired brain. However, I don't view this as bad. It is my gift. Because I miss the obvious, voilla, I see what many don't see. If everyone would be looking at the heads on a coin and commenti
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04/17/2008
The modern day world is full of stress and strain. The expression stop the world I want to get off seems more and more appropriate each year. In the early years of the telephone it became an annoyance by telemarketers ringing it at the dinner hour. Now the curse of the cell phone is it can track
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04/17/2008
Life is all about comings and goings. Beginnings and endings. In real estate you meet new clients, go through an entire purchase or sell process with them, and then wrap things up. There are mini beginnings and endings each and every day within the larger sequence of start and finish.I would enco
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04/16/2008
There is a concept in life that LESS IS MORE.Yes, I have seen it in real estate where less screaming kids in the back seat of my vehicle makes the showings go more orderly. Less clutter in a house makes the rooms feel better staged, having better Feng Shui, and feel more open.Th
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04/15/2008
Sometimes positive posts and articles absolutely annoy me. Have you ever had one of those days? Some days you feel down and you just want to be left alone. I'm here to tell you, THAT'S OK!! You know what? That just means you're human.Crying is very good for us. Yes, men too. Sadness envelopes us
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04/14/2008
A lawyer pulls off to the side of the road in his Lexus to check some engine noise. He opens the driver's front left door and stands out on the road and WHOOSH a fast moving truck drives by and rips off the door. He immediately gets on the cell phone and calls 9-1-1 to report the accident. The st
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04/13/2008
The problem with negativity is you start believing it if you don't stop it. Sure there are situations in life that are not easy. The reality is you just need to work your way through the issues.Sometimes you can get so myopic in looking at a problem you miss the big picture or develop a mindset t
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04/12/2008
