You need to sell your house. You cleaned it, spruced it up maybe even listed it with a real estate broker and here you sit, day after day, month after month. Wishing and hoping and praying... wait, isn’t there a song like that?....that a buyer will come, who will fall in love with your house and buy it that day. Perhaps you have even had a couple of showings, but the response was ho-hum. no one fell in love that day. So here you sit..wishing, hoping and praying that someone will buy tomorrow...Learn More
That is the question that you should always ask yourself if you are working on your home or investment property. I am continually amazed at how people will over fix and blow their budget on a home or investment property. Then, they expect to get that amount and more out of their house. The basic [...]
The simple answer is no. There is much more involved in getting your home ready for a successful sale, than simply cleaning it. The unfortunate fact is that far too many sellers fail to realize this right away.
I don’t want to understate the importance of a clean and shiny house, because obviously a dirty house [...]
There’s more to staging a home than simply putting out a few towels, some fresh flowers and straightening the throw cushions on the couch. Think about the last ten open houses you visited. Can you even remember them? Is there anything that stood out from the rest? Any details you can recall? If you’re lucky, [...]
Not really If you look back at the real estate industry ten years, or even five years ago you’ll see that it was a very different reality than it is today. It’s no secret that the market is slowing down, and has even stalled in many areas. But if you have a home to sell, [...]
Do you know how to stage your home so that you can sell it right away and for the most profit? You many think you do. But I’m willing to bet that your ideas of home staging are outdated and overdone. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to tell you that you don’t know [...]
In the 2005 best seller Brand Sense, author Martin Lindstrom says that as much as 83% of all marketing communication is limited to sight and sound. In the real estate business most of the marketing communication is done by sight. Ads placed in local newspapers, the MLS, and post cards announcing open houses etc
However, the [...]
In years gone by if you wanted to sell your home, you would typically give it a cleaning, maybe shampoo the carpets and slap up a for sale sign. Those days are gone. In today’s tough market it takes a great deal more creativity to sell homes, which is where home staging comes in. At [...]
Starting a home based business can be full of challenges and setbacks, but the rewards are immeasurable. In today’s economy, more and more women go everyday to jobs that they aren’t passionate about just to pay the bills, and pay for the daycare that they would rather do without. Life should be about more than [...]
Monica sold her house in 1 day in a market that is flooded with houses! The Simple Appeal staging system works wonders.
Well that’s it. The bubble has officially burst, or at least it’s losing air. Everyone has said it would happen, and well, quite frankly, none of us wanted to believe it. Some cheered, others [...]
