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!


Monday, April 11, 2011

Crazy Busy- We’re Just Going to Make It Work!

This is a continuation of a conversation that I had last week with a Tulsa, Oklahoma Realtor.  We are partnering to encourage her seller to paint their bathroom to address a weakness in the house before listing it.  Her response to this challenge was that “my sellers are just crazy busy. They don’t have time so we’re just going to make it work!”

There are two parts to this conversation that I want to discuss – crazy busy and making it work.

Today, sellers, buyers and especially realtors (and a certain home stager I know quite well) are just crazy busy.  In a “normal” life, there are many, many demands and desires that pull and tug at our time, attention, and sanity.  That normal life gets turned upside down and inside out when we decide to sell or buy a house.  Selling and buying a house is high on the scale of stressful life events. 

Caught in the middle of the crazy and busy (and often over stressed) seller and buyer is the realtor.  The crazy, busy seller wants to sell their house as quickly as possible (“the first it’s listed is quite acceptable, thank you”) and for the highest possible price.  The crazy, busy buyer wants a hassle-free, move-in ready house (“no remodeling projects please”) within their price range. 

And the crazy, busy realtor just wants to make it work!

The realtor will make it work by convincing the seller to invest in making their house marketable and move-in ready.  This may include but not be limited to painting, kitchen upgrades, “de-cluttering” and/or full scale home staging.

They will make it work by employing their team of resources and network of contacts to help the seller complete the “home work” required before listing the house.

The crazy, busy realtor will make it work because that is what they do.  They do not focus on why not.  They focus on what, how and when.  As I’ve mentioned before, successful realtors dwell in the art of the possible. 

They will find a way to just make it work so that the crazy, busy seller can return to a normal life; the crazy, busy buyer can return to a normal life.  And the crazy, busy realtor will find another opportunity to make it work for another client!!!


Dwell in possibilities!


Cindy
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