New DIY Home Staging Resource!

I have just developed a step-by-step, easy to use kit to do your own home staging so you can sell your house quickly and for tons more profit!

You can check it out at: http://home-staging-secrets.com/action.html

I am also staging a home right now to sell. If you buy the DIY kit, you'll get to peek over my shoulder as I change this house from BLAH to BLING!!

Enjoy,
Rebecca

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New Home Staging Blog!

http://home-staging-secrets.com/blog

I've created a WordPress Blog and am having a blast trying out all of the bells and whistles on this awesome program!

Check it out and be sure to bookmark it -- I add daily content there!

Cheers,
Rebecca

Why Staging Sells

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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Help For Selling The Vacant Home

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 them to see themselves living there.

And even though we go through a logical process to find a home, it's truly an emotional process to find a home that you Love and want to buy.

Rebecca

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Debra Gould Shows You How

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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Do It Yourself Home Staging

"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 sold in less than a month for almost full asking price.

This is a very comprehensive article by Annie Addington. Check it out!

Rebecca

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Taking It To An Extreme

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) -- Home sellers long ago discovered that small touches could boost selling prices - fresh flowers, the smell of freshly baked cookies. Now a real estate developer, Centex of Dallas, is adding in beautiful people.

click on title link for complete story

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Why Staging is Different Than Cleaning Up

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 your house,” Droney says.

“My home right now is filled up with lots of things that I would remove if I were going to sell it,” Neiderer adds. “Once you put your home on the market, it's a product for sale, and you have to think of it that way.”

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