Everyone has heard the saying, “First impressions matter,” and when it comes to real estate, the exterior of a building is the first impression buyers have. While the interior is the difference between a houseContinue reading
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Preparing Your Home For an Open House
Every real estate agent knows: more exposure for a property equals more feet in the door, which translates to more and sometimes higher offers. There are many different ways to increase awareness of yourContinue reading
Start Preparing Now For Selling a Home in the Spring | 2019
Don’t wait until all of those new spring listings flood your real estate marketplace. Take the time now to start prepping your home for a quick, lucrative sale in 2019. Spring is prime-time for sellingContinue reading
6 Winter Decorating Ideas For 2019 To Brighten Your World
It’s 10 degrees outside. The glimmer and glow of the holiday season is gone, and between the overcast skies and muddy, icy slush on the ground, wintertime is getting downright depressing. The good news isContinue reading
Making a Home Luxuriously Inviting
One of the things I enjoy most about being a Certified Staging Professional is the opportunity to apply my skills and training to a wide variety of homes. Whether it’s a loft condominium, a starterContinue reading
Staging That Sells Named a Finalist for the 2018 RESA Awards
While I’ve been staging my and my friend’s homes since the 1990s, I didn’t hang my professional shingle until 16 months ago when I earned my Certified Staging Professional accreditation. In that short time, StagingContinue reading
Staging to Attract Your Demographic – Tower Grove Park Homes
One of the most popular housing destinations in St. Louis, Tower Grove is a hot market for developers and flippers looking to rehab houses. The neighborhoods near Tower Grove Park have seen an enormous increaseContinue reading
Selling Your House in the Winter: To List or Not to List?
If you ask around about the best time to list a home for sale, you’re likely to hear that you should avoid selling your house in the winter (December, January, and February). After all, inContinue reading
Staging Your Home to Sell: Not Just for Luxury Homes!
Home staging is well-established as an effective tool for selling a house quickly and at maximum price, but many sellers overlook this option or dismiss it as ‘too expensive’, particularly those with smaller or less-expensiveContinue reading
The Cost to Stage a Home — It’s Simple Math
In college, I was a communications major, a decision driven in equal parts by a natural strength in language arts, and an utter lack of mathematical skills! Despite this, I have come to love mathContinue reading