by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Apr 19, 2018 | Preparing a Home for Sale, Selling Your Home
Will a staged home sell for more money? A staged home in this context is the use of furniture and decorative items supplied by the stager – usually on a multi-room basis (and the removal of existing furniture and decorative items if necessary). Time and money...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Apr 5, 2018 | Preparing a Home for Sale, Selling Your Home
Staging professionals say that sometimes the word “staging” is misused and what is actually done is misnamed. For example, when the activities are really organizing, decluttering, and rearranging or eliminating the existing furniture. These things can be...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Mar 26, 2018 | Preparing a Home for Sale, Selling Your Home
Staging is the process of making a home more appealing through the use of personal property and lighting. Staging accomplishes this through the following: Showing purpose – exercise equipment demonstrates a room without a closet could be used for working out;...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | May 22, 2015 | Preparing a Home for Sale, Selling Your Home
By far the number one offense cited by buyer’s agents were home owners that were present for the showing. The worst are those who follow buyers and the agent all over the home. Agents call sellers who get involved at showings “stalker sellers.” This can occur where...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Feb 28, 2015 | Home Buying, Preparing a Home for Sale
Around Halloween last year I wrote a blog about gruesome surprises found in homes for sale. It seems that agents are continuing to find all kinds of disturbing things in homes and foreclosures. In Milwaukee an agent found a very dead occupant on the stairs in a home...