Comments on: Stagers, don’t let real estate agents discourage you

By: Don't believe everything real estate agents tell you | Staging Diva Dispatch

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:03:40 +0000

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By: Patricia Ebrahimi

Patricia Ebrahimi — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:00:28 +0000

Wow, Christine! Way to go. Your story just goes to prove “seeing is believing.”

By: Christine Barrera

Christine Barrera — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:03:08 +0000

An Agent we personally know is in the process of Flipping homes at a very low price. We introduced our new staging business to him. He told me “staging is good under certain circumstances but wouldn’t be necessary for this situation because investors will buy it up the first day.” I negotiated a one time discount to give us an opportunity to “prove’ to him that it will make him even more money. “GREAT NEWS” Not only did He sell the home for 5k more than asking price, he had multiple offers. He loved what we did so much, that two weeks later we redesigned his personal family homes main bathroom and living room.,”IT GET’S BETTER”… while we were there designing, a customer of this agent came by to sign papers and saw what we were doing and hired us to do his home.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:19:09 +0000

Realtors don’t want to share the wealth. It’s very simple. They don’t know how to stage a home – act like they do – and the only answer they often provide for a home not selling is the price is too high and we need to drop it. Real Estate agents caused the inflation of homes and are continuing to cause home values to drop. Giving them 6% commission is outlandish. Why do we have to pay 6% to list a home on MLS? I know from personal experience that staging a home will sell a home.

By: Donna Dazzo, Designed to Appeal

Donna Dazzo, Designed to Appeal — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:22:41 +0000

Laurelanne, I always raffle off a free consultation when I make presentations at real estate offices, but only about 20% of the winners take advantage of it. It totally baffles me! The only good thing is that I get business cards so I can add the email addresses to my monthly newsletters and other emails I send out.

By: Laurelanne Bellezzo

Laurelanne Bellezzo — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:06:57 +0000

My community has a population of barely 40,000 (rural, conservative). The feeling here seems to be that the realtor should have all the answers, recommendations, etc. After all, the seller is paying the realtor’s commission, so he/she should work for it, and the commission should cover everything(!). Agents are extremely reluctant to make even a consultation part of their services package because it costs them $$ upfront. The community has been hard hit by job cutbacks, etc.; sellers are very reluctant to invest in selling their home (a.k.a. the realtor’s job). I have given dog-and-pony shows to a few realtor offices and left or raffled off a gift certificate for a free initial consultation in hopes of generating business. One office has yet to use the certificate, has a prime seller/big home to use it on. The seller feels everything is fine as-is and doesn’t want to spend/contribute to improve the home’s chances of being sold. The mindset seems to be that if the buyer wants the house badly enough, they’ll deal with anything/everything.

By: joan Jewell

joan Jewell — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:41:50 +0000

I am just commenting on sometimes Real estate Agents do hire Home-staggers’ even in my “small” town. I recently wrote a letter to a new Realtor, She had a write up on front page of my newspaper. To make things short “SHE ANSWERED BACK AND BEFORE SHE MOVED BACK TO CORRY HAD HIRED HOME-STAGGERS”..She would like to speak to me sometime. So I answered her right back. So don’t give up their is one out there!!

By: Home Stagers, realize your own power in real estate | Home Staging Business Report

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:02:07 +0000

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By: Susan Gillespie

Susan Gillespie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:03:39 +0000

PS. The real estate agent told him to go for a partial staging because only a few rooms really mattered anyway!

By: Susan Gillespie

Susan Gillespie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:00:35 +0000

Thank you so much for this valuable information. Some time could you write something about partial staging verses full staging on vacant homes? I recently staged a brand new vacant home that the builder only wanted it partially staged. I”m wishing now that I didn’t give him that option. The rooms I did look great but I think it leaves buyers wondering what happened to the rest of the house! I”m trying to accomodate sellers budgets, but I think I may have made a mistake on this one. What do you think?