A couple of weeks before Charleston's Tour of Homes I received a phone call from an agent with a builder client. They had 4 homes on the tour of homes that he thought could benefit from staging. We worked a really long week, staging 5 homes that week (some of you may remember those blogs). A week ago I blogged about moving the furniture for one of them that was under contract & today I found out a second one went under contract on October 25th... We staged them on October 13th!
Here are the past blogs on these homes... House #3/5... Cute Home in Moncks Corner &
House #2/5... They're all done now, I'll roll them out one by one....
Something to think about:
- House #3 went on the market, 04/25/07, was staged on 10/13/07 and under contract on 10/30/07
- House #2 went on the market, 04/25/07, was staged on 10/13/07 and under contract on 10/25/07
We all talk about gathering statistical data to prove to agents that staging DOES work.... What does this say to the builder? the agent? do you think these agents talk to other agents? This is one way we educated consumers on the NEED for staging in the current market...
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Melissa Marro, a published artist, now turned staging advocet and national speaker speaks her mind about real estate and the home staging industry. In her 'no holds barred' approach, audience members find real answers to the industries pitfalls and learn how to overcome them with tried and true information and guidance. With marketing as her passion, she turned a small home based business into one of the nation's largest home staging and training facilities. She now operates as the CEO of First Impressions Home Staging & Interior ReDesign as well as the Executive Director of Certified Staging Professionals International Training Academy (CSPI) - the world's largest Staging Training Organization, and regularly speaks at the StagerList Expos and Real Estate Staging Association (RESA)'s trade events.
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July 5-7 Memphis, TN
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Melissa - Whohoooo! I'm doing the yipee dance for you, the builder and the agents involved! Great job and thanks for posting all that data.
Jackie
Melissa, this is great news for you, and the rest of us! Thanks for doing such a great job.