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 | 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...
by Jon Terry | Oct 26, 2010 | Blog, Selling a Home, Short Sale
I love talking about staging. Not the process itself, that’s something one has to walk through to experience, but how staging can make someone’s life better. In these days of financial uncertainty and even crisis, our team feels a huge commitment to help...