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When you are a landlord with a house to rent, it is so tempting to bite when you think you have a hot lead for a tenant. Last week I placed an ad on Craig’s List for our Beverly Hills rental home, in addition to our other marketing activities. The ad snared an interested party [...]

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While the holidays will be just a memory and an extra bag of garbage for pick-up in a couple of weeks, these weeks could be crucial for those who are actively listing and showing their houses.  Buyers who are braving the elements and interrupting their holiday commitments to view houses are serious about finding their next [...]

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Image via Wikipedia Would you be surprised to know that a house in Metro Detroit sold for nearly $10,000,000 this summer?  That’s a whole lotta cash, by just about anyone’s standards.  According to information from Realcomp II, 21000 Turnberry Lane in Novi, sold for $9,800,000 in August.  It wasn’t even officially on the market when [...]

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This is actually an old post of mine from 2006, but the advice still holds true today. I’m pulling it out and dusting it off for those end of the year home sellers who might have missed it the first time around.” With Thanksgiving here to kick off the winter holiday season, there are a [...]

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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, a perfect time to pause, reflect and give thanks for all of the blessings we have in our lives. As I reach 4 1/2 years of owning a home staging business, I realize I have much to be grateful for.  I have met some incredible people along the way, many that I am [...]

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Take a quick look at this photo: What did you see? Did you notice: The beautiful bay window? The window seat? New high-grade carpet? A fireplace to the left? Plenty of room to put a proper desk? The incredible wooded view outside the windows? The french door? Neutral wall color? Probably not.  Like most potential [...]

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This would be funny if it weren’t so true. Well, it’s a little funny.  In an uncomfortable kind of way. The abundance of foreclosures may put a damper on Halloween trick-or-treating this year, but it doesn’t have to. Stage those foreclosures to sell them! Vignette and surface staging can go a long way to warm [...]

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I spent much of this week with my head blissfully in the sand.  While others fretted about stock market losses and the failed housing market, I just kind of failed to tune in. Crazy words, I know.  I am hardly apathetic and I tend to be pretty well informed.  But this week, as the sky [...]

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As a home stager, I am called by real estate agents and homeowners to help prepare their properties for sale. While it is impossible to say how long the house would have taken to sell had I not been involved, I firmly believe that the changes implemented have made a difference in the DOM. I [...]

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In the last few weeks, Marianne Sweet and I have had a couple of quick success stories. I called in Marianne on two new listings and asked her to do her magic. In one case, the home had been on the market previously with another agent, and had not sold. It was a lovely home, [...]

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The last few months have been whirlwind for Dmitry and me.  In spite of all that you hear about the crummy housing market, we, through hard work, good fortune and a bit of creative thinking, find ourselves square in the middle of our best year in real estate-EVER.  Yes, you read that right.  Our best [...]

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