Are You Rental-Ready for the Busy Season Ahead?
With car auctions, golf tournament, horse show and other events here in the beautiful Scottsdale area, it’s time to check your vacation rental to ensure it’s ready for bookings and …
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Design for Rent (in a Pandemic)
Designing a rental offers some specific challenges compared to a residence that’s lived in every day. We recently completed a rental unit in Old Town Scottsdale and want to share …
Staging Myths in Today’s Real Estate Market
Thanks to television and other media, real estate agents and homeowners know about home staging. But many think only of filling a vacant home with furniture. Simple Staging While that …
Staging Success
You can’t avoid the steady stream of news reports about the hot housing market. That market creates a challenge for the home staging industry, because homeowners and real estate agents …
Sleeping Beauty: A Home Staging Bedroom Make-over
As part of a just-completed whole-house home staging project of this charming home in #MtPleasantSC, we transformed a somewhat dark and unpolished primary bedroom into an inviting retreat. First 4 …
Home Staging in the Real World
Despite the growing awareness of home staging, many homeowners and even experienced agents resist the effort. Why? Agents and owners don’t understand the benefits. Another reason: perceived cost or adding …
To Stage or Not to Stage…
From MySanAntonio.com (San Antonio, Texas Express newspaper)… “…The choice of whether to stage a home for sale is a uniquely personal choice for home sellers, one that comes with many …
How to Add At Least 10% to Your Home Sales Price
Home staging is taking a hit right now…with record low housing inventory and chart-busting prices, many sellers and agents are moving so quickly to a contact that they are not …
Five Stars: What Makes a Great Vacation Rental?
Current pandemic aside, vacation rentals have become wildly popular; on any given night, more than two million people are in an AirBnB. In 2021, 35.6 million people will rent short-term …
WFH (Work from He^% or Home?) By now, many of us have become accustomed to the numbing routine of coffee at home, video calls galore and figuring out how to …