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This article has some great ideas for stocking your staging toolkit. I especially loved the “earthquake putty” idea, even though I’m not in California I can still think of a few ways to use this.
And don’t you just love the grapes idea?
Enjoy,
Rebecca
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Basically, economists don’t know how low real estate prices in hot areas are going to drop. This drop may just be the market’s way of correcting the prices that skyrocketed a few years ago, which would allow incomes to catch up. Or it could be just the beginning of a very long downward spiral.
Interest food [...]

Two designers were chosen to decorate two Denver dorm rooms for a redesign competition. I can’t think of a smaller space to make functional and inviting!
See how they did at:
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Great article with step by step tips to shape up any mid to upper bracket home.
This home stager is from Florida and started out as a realtor!
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Many folks are in the situation where they are relocating or moving out an old tenant as they are trying to sell a home.
Home staging is vital for vacant homes because it allows the buyer to see what the home could be, rather than just setting their focus on the house’s small imperfections, staging helps [...]

This is an interesting site on home staging. Debra works out of Toronto,
but she does phone consulting and offers marketing courses for new
home stagers.
Her site has tons of before and after photos and some great articles.
Enjoy!
Rebecca
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“I don’t want this house a day longer than I can keep it. You have to pay two water bills and the mortgage. You can get what it’s worth faster by staging. And the cost of staging is a lot less than your first price reduction.”
Quote from Vandy Middleton on staging her own home, which [...]

Okay, I think this is going a little TOO far — by bringing in a group
of actors to liven up the sterile model home open house.
The HomeLife program gets an A for creativity, though!
Rebecca
Extreme home staging
An ideal family for a model home.
By Les Christie, CNNMoney.com staff writer
July 3 2006: 11:24 AM EDT
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — [...]

How one couple “sold” another on the virtues of Home Staging.
Great article explaining WHY home staging is so vital in this market.
Rebecca
Excerpt from
Setting the stage for home sales
Show & Sell team assists with home staging techniques
By MARTIN DeANGELIS Staff Writer, (609) 272-7237
“The way you live in your house is different from the way you sell [...]

Here are some excerpts from another home stager, this time in Maine. It looks like home staging is finally catching on over here on the East Coast!
Rebecca
Friday, July 7, 2006
In real estate sales, all the home’s a stage
By TOM BELL, Portland Press Herald Writer
Copyright © 2006 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.
It took years for Tom Cannon [...]