Since creating the “to be continued” blog, I’ve been closing each post with the words “dwell in possibilities.” I must confess that I borrowed this phrase from the great poet, Emily Dickinson. I saw her quote and realized that it summed up what I am doing as a professional home stager and interior designer.

I am most grateful to Ms. Dickinson for her insightful and inspiring phrase.

Regardless of the size or price range of a house, my objective is to find the possibilities in that house. I am looking for those unique features of that house and finding possible ways to accentuate them for the potential buyer. I am analyzing those unusual spaces that buyers find difficult to understand upon first glance and finding possible functional uses for those spaces.

In the end, my mission is to help the potential buyer see how they could dwell in the possibilities of this house!


Wednesday, March 30, 2011

“The market is still really tough. A house needs to use everything available to be competitive.”

I had a conversation last week with a Tulsa, Oklahoma realtor that I wanted to continue with you.  She made an interesting observation about the state of the housing market.  “The market is still really tough.  A house needs to use everything available to be competitive.”  She and I agreed that professional staging can play a major role in making a house really competitive.

In my experience, proactive and successful realtors do use advanced techniques to help sell their houses.  And success breeds success as potential sellers want to list their houses with realtors who deliver results.

Staging is one of those advanced techniques that proactive, successful realtors use to set their listings apart from the competition for the right reasons.  Professional staging makes the house competitive.  Professional staging delivers results.  Professional staging sells houses.

We have examples of houses that had offers within the first week of being staged by Transitions.  Check out our website (http://www.transitions-home-staging.com/Projects.html ) and look for the Peppergrass, Manor, Evergreen and Camelot Court staging projects as examples of houses that had offers within the first week.

As we’ve discussed in previous blogs, savvy sellers know that the cost of professional home staging is an investment in selling their house quicker and for the best possible price.  Plus, it is important to remember that the price of professional home staging is much less than the first price reduction.  And don’t forget that a professionally staged house dramatically improves the pictures for the online listing – a technique becoming more valuable in our ever increasing online world.  . 

It can be tough to convince the seller to have their house professionally staged.  I suggest you send them to the Transitions website (http://www.transitions-home-staging.com/) for real life examples of the huge difference staging can make in selling a house.


Dwell in possibilities!

Cindy

No comments:

Post a Comment