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California Home Staging Sparks Bidding War in Palm Springs

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I always recommend home sellers contact a home stager before calling a real estate agent.

It will result in a more favorable pricing strategy and a realtor who is more excited to list the property.

After all, home staging makes the best first impression with everyone involved. And that applies… Read More →

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Kitchen Home Staging Easily Boosts Home Selling Price

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kitchen after staging Jodi Whalen

Kitchens are one of the most important rooms when determining the selling price of a home. That’s because they’re the most expensive and time-consuming to renovate.

Put a home on the real estate market with an ugly kitchen like the one seen here, and you can expect lower offers… Read More →

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Home Staging Cure for Awkward Condo

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Home staging is a great cure for awkward rooms, especially the ones you find in many of today’s condo projects.

You know those tall towers with the weird jutting out points encased in glass? They might make the building look interesting (or fit it into an oddly shaped lot), but what are… Read More →

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Home Staging Ends 5 Year Real Estate Endurance Test

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Living Room After Staging Peggy Harrington

For frustrated home sellers, home staging can mean the difference between getting on with your life or feeling like you’re in an expensive endurance test with no end in sight.

That’s why home stagers are frustrated hearing real estate agents insist all that matters in a real… Read More →

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Home Staging Tips Sell House For Full Price Despite Husband’s Skepticism

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Living room after staging by Donna Richter

Home staging is a service that not everyone has tried yet, despite what’s happening in the real estate market. That’s changing and often it’s the wives who have to convince their husbands to try hiring a home stager  for home staging tips to sell their home faster and for… Read More →

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Australia Home Stager Transforms a Vacant House

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Australia home stager, and new Staging Diva Graduate Katrina Gibbons of Stylus Home Staging Brisbane, shares a terrific example of how much more desirable a staged home looks than a vacant one.

Check out Katrina’s transformation of a living room/dining room, and patio area visible… Read More →

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Home Staging Controversy or Effective Marketing for Real Estate Broker

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Home staging is a powerful part of the real estate industry. In fact, more than a decade ago, Forbes Magazine called home stagers the “dream weavers of the real estate world.”

I quite loved that label and quoted it in my very first website for Six Elements Inc., the home staging… Read More →

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Staging Diva Graduate gets $15,000 over asking for her own home

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Staging Diva Graduate Lavonne Clifford spent years focused on others as a dedicated mother and full-time volunteer. Now that her children are in high school, though, Lavonne is focusing on her career as owner of Atlanta-based Big Dog Staging.

Lavonne wrote to tell me about one of her most… Read More →

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Home Stager Helps Client Stop Paying Two Mortgages

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I’ve written about Staging Diva Graduate Holly Battaglia before. She has a very inspiring story as she manages to work over 20 hours a week as an Oncology RN on top of running her successful Maryland home staging business, Holly’s Home Matters.

She’s also a busy mother of four… Read More →

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Staging Diva Graduate Gets Stale NY Listing Sold in 7 days

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Before becoming a home stager, Staging Diva Graduate Jodi Whalen of New Jersey-based Pear Tree Home Designs had an exciting career as a Marketing Director at the Food Network.

As a home stager, though, this mother of a very active toddler has much more flexibility over her schedule.

Despite… Read More →

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