Also go to ActiveRain.com and look up Craig Schiller there. He has another group. I’d email him if I were you. He’s very nice and knowledgeable…an unbeatable combination.

Good luck!

I just had a conversation with an out of state agent who showed pictures of her listing on her blog. I couldn’t believe someone would take a photo without first “dressing up” the area in the photo. We’ve all seen some pretty odd things in these shots, like the agent’s purse on the fireplace

Her reasoning was that ONCE someone got really mad and made her move everything back the way it was. I thought it was awfully sad that someone would base all future practices on one negative consequence. Made me wonder how many agents who don’t give more than 100% effort, do so because of a bad experience. Sad really.

Oops, back to your comment. Yes! Take away “the curse of the vacants” even if full staging is not an option. I like minimal furniture anyway, and do usually bring in a table and chairs. A NICE one, LOL

Cracks me up when an agent brings in a folding chair or a card table just so he/she has a place to sit during the Open House and leaves it there all week long. How many times have we entered a vacant house and seen a beach chair sitting in the middle of the living room. We should all bring our cameras to every showing and take photos of these bad practices.

On the other hand, I get just as annoyed when a house is SO professionally staged that they are actually hiding the property defects. A buyer should be able to see what they are buying and staging should add a little “ambience” as you say, without being total camoflauge.