by Jon Terry | May 5, 2012 | Around The Home, Blog, Residential Real Estate, Selling a Home, Staging
Dirty shower doors can ruin an otherwise sparkling-clean bathroom. If you have your home on the market, dirty shower doors can be distracting to prospective buyers. The soap scum that accumulates isn’t just unsightly, it contains body oils and skin particles...
by Jon Terry | Jul 20, 2011 | Blog, De-Personalizing your Home, Selling a Home, Staging
The minute you know it’s time to sell your home, start thinking value. Which home improvements will yield the highest price and which aesthetic staging will make potential homebuyers fall in love? Value is determined when buyers weigh the work and cost...
by Jon Terry | May 25, 2011 | Blog, Selling a Home, Staging
For simplicity’s sake, I like to split listed properties into two categories: inhabited and uninhabited. Both need some degree of staging to enhance their potential. For inhabited properties, staging usually means sending items to storage, touchups, and a...
by Jon Terry | Dec 29, 2010 | Blog, Selling a Home, Staging
I’ve been listening to what people are saying as we move toward the end of the year. “Glad that year’s over!” “Don’t want a repeat of 2010!” “Hope I never see a year like that again!” It has been a tough time for...
by Jon Terry | Nov 23, 2010 | Blog, Selling a Home, Staging
What’s the big deal about packing family pictures before you put your house on the market? Most sellers have some objections to following the advice of putting away family photos. As a result, I thought it would be a good idea to write about the real reasons it...