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Selling a home this holiday season? Should you decorate? Around this time last year I wrote an article about selling a home during the holidays... Posted to Karen Otto by Karen Otto,ASP,RESA,ASHSR, Home Star Staging on 11-15-2008 Sellers, Realtors, Stagers Win The Circle Principle We all know what The Circle Principle is: What goes around comes around The Women's... Posted to Virginia Tatseos EnergizedSeller Blog by Virginia Tatseos on 10-13-2008 Staging Services are Ala Carte in Bloomfield Hills, Oakland County Michigan The first thing a seller or agent asks is how much is this going to cost. This is... Posted to Virginia Tatseos EnergizedSeller Blog by Virginia Tatseos on 10-13-2008 Stager, Title Company, Lenders, Virtual Assistant, October afternoon Crack House What do all these occupations have in common with October and a crack house? Yesterday... Posted to Virginia Tatseos EnergizedSeller Blog by Virginia Tatseos on 10-12-2008 Welcome!!! Welcome to EnergizedSeller.com. A lot of smart and energized people have worked hard... Posted to EnergizedSeller Happenings Blog by eseller1 on 10-10-2008 Turn a Vacant Home Into a Showcase Home What's going to make your home stand apart from the rest? A vacant home can be... Posted to Sarah Nguyen's Blog by eseller1 on 09-26-2008 Is This Cat Too Scary To Leave In a House for Showings? Inspired by a member's post asking if their cat was too scary to leave in their... Posted to EnergizedSeller Happenings Blog by eseller1 on 09-20-2008 Plano,TX - based Home Staging Professionals featured in Dallas Morning News This time last year , Home Star Staging along with another Plano-based home staging... Posted to Karen Otto by Karen Otto,ASP,RESA,ASHSR, Home Star Staging on 09-11-2008 "What if I don't like it?" Hum. That question, referring to the furniture and decor proposed for use in a vacant... Posted to Karen Otto by Karen Otto,ASP,RESA,ASHSR, Home Star Staging on 08-17-2008 Inside the Head of a Stager To get inside the head and business of a home stager, I interviewed Karen Otto ,... Posted to Dan's EnergizedSeller Blog by Dan Eason on 08-08-2008 A real life "Selling and home staging with kids" blog you have to read My Google Alerts had an interesting blog post and I want to share here. The blog... Posted to Karen Otto by Karen Otto,ASP,RESA,ASHSR, Home Star Staging on 07-11-2008 Know Your Market When selling your home, or anything for that matter, it is important to know your... Posted to EnergizedSeller Happenings Blog by eseller1 on 07-06-2008 Sellers, I feel your pain Let me first say, we are not moving . At least not this month. But we are re carpeting... Posted to Karen Otto by Karen Otto,ASP,RESA,ASHSR, Home Star Staging on 07-05-2008 Curb Appeal...How To Stand Out From The Crowd Yes, we've all heard it again and again...you only get one first impression.... Posted to Kristi Maxwell's Blog by Kristi Maxwell on 06-24-2008 Sell It Now Is your Realtor working to sell your property now? Does your Realtor have a website... Posted to Kim Young's Blog by Kim Young on 06-15-2008 What does $125 get you for Home Staging in North Texas? ALOT! Home Staging does NOT have to be expensive . Many Professional Home Stagers... Posted to Karen Otto by Karen Otto,ASP,RESA,ASHSR, Home Star Staging on 05-28-2008 Does a home staging consultation make a difference for selling? Below are some photos of an owner staged property after receiving a home staging... Posted to Karen Otto by Karen Otto,ASP,RESA,ASHSR, Home Star Staging on 05-28-2008 WOW - A Realtor Has to Know A LOT!! Plus, an ES Update Studying Real Estate After four years as a licensed real estate agent, I took my... Posted to Dan's EnergizedSeller Blog by Dan Eason on 04-29-2008 Why You Need A Professional Realtor Realtors rarely think about what they do every minute of every day. I never counted... Posted to Kim Young's Blog by Kim Young on 04-25-2008 Tax News For Home Sellers With so many things to consider when selling your home, having to stress and worry... Posted to Kristi Maxwell's Blog by Kristi Maxwell on 04-24-2008 Disclose, Disclose, Disclose As a seller you are required by law to fill out and complete a Sellers Disclosure... Posted to Kim Young's Blog by Kim Young on 04-24-2008
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	I Don't Want a Fool for a Client 11-14-2008 My wife and I have moved a number of times in the normal course of life's changes. Each purchase and sale experience was different, but in every case we utilized the services of a licensed Realtor®. In several cases, I used a Realtor® even...
	Furniture = Better Buyer Vision 11-07-2008 Your furniture plays an important role in the sale of your home. While it's true that your furniture will go with you when you move, its current placement in your home will help showcase and define the purpose of each room. Without it, buyers often...
	Is Your Home Organized Like A Quaint Hotel? 11-02-2008 Organizing your home is extremely important when deciding to start showing it to prospective buyers. People want to move into a home that they think they'll be able to keep organized - no matter how disorganized they are. If your home is perceived...
	Home Seller Safety Tips 10-24-2008 As a Professional Home Stager, one service I provide my clients with is a written detailed report called a consultation. A consultation gives a client the "blue print" to do the necessary work to prepare their homes for sale. It is great for...
	Pros and Cons of Home Price Cuts 10-17-2008 Weeks on the market and dozens of showings, but no deal: Should you reduce your asking price ? Home sellers hate price cuts and with good reason: Every dollar that’s knocked off the sales price is a dollar less in the seller’s pocket when...
	White Glove Checklist for Buyer Ready Bathrooms 10-09-2008 Want to prepare your bathrooms so that they are buyer ready? Use this list to help: Purchase new luxurious towels for display only. Use fluffy white or off-white and create a showcase bathroom. Replace the old shower curtain with a new neutral, solid...
	10 GREAT Tips for Curb Appeal 10-03-2008 Karen Otto wrote a great blog post called "Curb Appeal Is Like a Blind Date." In it she mentions "10 Tips for Top Notch Curb Appeal. Check them out here: 10 Tips for Top Notch Curb Appeal 1. Maintain regular watering, mowing, weeding and...
	Turn a Vacant Home Into a Showcase Home 09-26-2008 What's going to make your home stand apart from the rest? A vacant home can be especially hard to sell because there are no sticking points for buyers to distinguish your home amongst the other dozen they looked at that day. Give buyers compelling...
	A Great Tool When the REALTOR Calls 09-15-2008 Shuffle Duffel - By Gina McNew Want to deal with those stressful, last minute showing calls a little easier? Put together something I affectionately call the Shuffle Duffel. The Shuffle Duffel helps home sellers stay organized, get the house "viewer...
	Questions When Hiring A Home Staging Professional 09-04-2008 When considering using the services of any service professional it is always best to do your homework before making a decision. Referrals by satisfied customers are typically the best way to find a service professional in your area and EnergizedSeller...
	ES's Challenge To Improve Slow Moving Home 08-21-2008 We recently challenged some home owners to hire a stager and make her recommended changes in order to improve the marketability of their home - which had been on the market for over 7 months. They invested the time, work and money into the project and...
	How To Basics: Hiring a Home Stager 08-13-2008 By Marcie Geffner - (Posted with permission) Every home, no matter how luxurious or well-kept it may be, can benefit from at least a few improvements before it's put on the market to be sold. Though not every home that needs to be staged also needs...

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Selling a home this holiday season? Should you decorate?

Around this time last year I wrote an article about selling a home during the holidays with a focus on the question, should you decorate? I thought it was timely enough now to bring it back again because as we approach the various holidays this season...

Posted to Karen Otto by Karen Otto,ASP,RESA,ASHSR, Home Star Staging on 11-15-2008
How To Deal with a Low Ball Offer

Don't get mad. Get smart. Negotiation and patience can turn that disappointing offer into a better deal. Weak housing markets embolden bargain-minded homebuyers to offer much less than the seller’s asking price. While there is no agreed-upon...

Posted to Marcie Geffner's Blog by Marcie Geffner on 10-17-2008
The Pros and Cons of Home Price Cuts

Weeks on the market and dozens of showings, but no deal: Should you reduce your asking price? Home sellers hate price cuts and with good reason: Every dollar that’s knocked off the sales price is a dollar less in the seller’s pocket when the...

Posted to Marcie Geffner's Blog by Marcie Geffner on 10-17-2008
Sellers, Realtors, Stagers Win The Circle Principle

We all know what The Circle Principle is: What goes around comes around The Women's Council of Realtors magazine, Connections, has a great article in it regarding adding home stagers to your professional network. Superbly written and I hope all WCR...

Posted to Virginia Tatseos EnergizedSeller Blog by Virginia Tatseos on 10-13-2008
Staging Services are Ala Carte in Bloomfield Hills, Oakland County Michigan

The first thing a seller or agent asks is how much is this going to cost. This is before seeing the property. Well good golly I haven't seen the house. Don't know how much work needs to be done or how much furniture is in the house. Let me look...

Posted to Virginia Tatseos EnergizedSeller Blog by Virginia Tatseos on 10-13-2008
Stager, Title Company, Lenders, Virtual Assistant, October afternoon Crack House

What do all these occupations have in common with October and a crack house? Yesterday about 30 of us met to tear down a house in Detroit. This is the third weekend for this house and the only one that I participated in. The first weekend (all volunteers...

Posted to Virginia Tatseos EnergizedSeller Blog by Virginia Tatseos on 10-12-2008
Welcome!!!

Welcome to EnergizedSeller.com. A lot of smart and energized people have worked hard at getting this site off the ground and we're very glad you're here. To begin, we hope you'll get familiar with the site, determine what areas will be beneficial...

Posted to EnergizedSeller Happenings Blog by eseller1 on 10-10-2008
Turn a Vacant Home Into a Showcase Home

What's going to make your home stand apart from the rest? A vacant home can be especially hard to sell because there are no sticking points for buyers to distinguish your home amongst the other dozen they looked at that day. Give buyers compelling...

Posted to Sarah Nguyen's Blog by eseller1 on 09-26-2008
Is This Cat Too Scary To Leave In a House for Showings?

Inspired by a member's post asking if their cat was too scary to leave in their home for showings (see post here ) we decided to have a contest asking for the scariest/funny pet pictures members have. We all love our pets, but some pets really are...

Posted to EnergizedSeller Happenings Blog by eseller1 on 09-20-2008
Plano,TX - based Home Staging Professionals featured in Dallas Morning News

This time last year , Home Star Staging along with another Plano-based home staging professional (and my good friend), Barie Pinnell, with WRE Interiors, were interviewed for an article by the Dallas Morning News . It was an article regarding (of course...

Posted to Karen Otto by Karen Otto,ASP,RESA,ASHSR, Home Star Staging on 09-11-2008
"What if I don't like it?"

Hum. That question, referring to the furniture and decor proposed for use in a vacant property , was posed to me this week by a client who has never worked with a home stager before . Although I've never been asked this question directly before, I...

Posted to Karen Otto by Karen Otto,ASP,RESA,ASHSR, Home Star Staging on 08-17-2008
Inside the Head of a Stager

To get inside the head and business of a home stager, I interviewed Karen Otto , owner of Home Star Staging in Plano, Texas. Karen is an Accredited Staging Professional, an active contributor to EnergizedSeller.com, and is very passionate about educating...

Posted to Dan's EnergizedSeller Blog by Dan Eason on 08-08-2008
A real life "Selling and home staging with kids" blog you have to read

My Google Alerts had an interesting blog post and I want to share here. The blog is written by a seller who had their Realtor stage the listing . She describes in really good (and humorous) detail the process and how it was to live like that for a very...

Posted to Karen Otto by Karen Otto,ASP,RESA,ASHSR, Home Star Staging on 07-11-2008
Know Your Market

When selling your home, or anything for that matter, it is important to know your market. This lady clearly doesn't know her market, and she's paying the price for it. :) If you're selling your home, work with people who know yours.

Posted to EnergizedSeller Happenings Blog by eseller1 on 07-06-2008
Sellers, I feel your pain

Let me first say, we are not moving . At least not this month. But we are re carpeting our 2nd floor and replacing our white wooden stair balusters for our enjoyment as well as the future return on investment. Why did we really want to do this? Heck,...

Posted to Karen Otto by Karen Otto,ASP,RESA,ASHSR, Home Star Staging on 07-05-2008
Curb Appeal...How To Stand Out From The Crowd

Yes, we've all heard it again and again...you only get one first impression. When trying to sell a home in a tough and competitive market, this saying can't be more true. What attributes will distinguish your home from the others on the market...

Posted to Kristi Maxwell's Blog by Kristi Maxwell on 06-24-2008
Sell It Now

Is your Realtor working to sell your property now? Does your Realtor have a website? A blog page? Is your property listed on active rain, Zillow, Trulia, Craigslist, realtor.com with enhancements? The most important thing as a seller you will do is price...

Posted to Kim Young's Blog by Kim Young on 06-15-2008
What does $125 get you for Home Staging in North Texas?

ALOT! Home Staging does NOT have to be expensive . Many Professional Home Stagers provide many levels of service at different price points . Budgets are always considered when I speak to my clients and I am well aware of being cost conscious especially...

Posted to Karen Otto by Karen Otto,ASP,RESA,ASHSR, Home Star Staging on 05-28-2008
Does a home staging consultation make a difference for selling?

Below are some photos of an owner staged property after receiving a home staging consultation from Home Star Staging . Included in a home staging consultation are many, many recommendations. Below are just two of the following which highlight the purpose...

Posted to Karen Otto by Karen Otto,ASP,RESA,ASHSR, Home Star Staging on 05-28-2008
WOW - A Realtor Has to Know A LOT!! Plus, an ES Update

Studying Real Estate After four years as a licensed real estate agent, I took my real estate broker's exam today and was amazed by the amount of information I had to learn in order to pass; the same was true for the agent's exam. As someone who...

Posted to Dan's EnergizedSeller Blog by Dan Eason on 04-29-2008
Why You Need A Professional Realtor

Realtors rarely think about what they do every minute of every day. I never counted the steps I take from listing presentation to closing. That's my job. But an article a few years back caused me to stop and take note. Having been in the business...

Posted to Kim Young's Blog by Kim Young on 04-25-2008
Tax News For Home Sellers

With so many things to consider when selling your home, having to stress and worry about the IRS should not be one of them. The great news is that in most cases, sellers should not have to owe the Internal Revenue Service a single penny. Many sellers...

Posted to Kristi Maxwell's Blog by Kristi Maxwell on 04-24-2008
Disclose, Disclose, Disclose

As a seller you are required by law to fill out and complete a Sellers Disclosure. I advise every seller as they fill out the sellers disclosure to be sure and put anything their neighbor knows about the house. It does happen that we forget the ONE toilet...

Posted to Kim Young's Blog by Kim Young on 04-24-2008
Experience Counts

I’m sure you’ve heard that old adage, you get what you pay for. That couldn’t be more true than in the real estate profession. As an experienced agent of 30 plus years I know the business forward and backward. I am rarely hit with a problem that I haven...

Posted to Kim Young's Blog by Kim Young on 04-24-2008
Case Study for Staging Slow Moving Home

I have a couple of friends, Kyle and Tesa Cornett, who were desperately trying to sell their home so that they could move to Houston, Texas for a great business opportunity. The problem was that they couldn't sell their home. Their home had been on...

Posted to Helpful Articles by Dan Eason on 04-18-2008

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