THE ONLY TRAINING TO MEET YOUR NEEDS RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE IN BUSINESS!

14 POWER-PACKED BUSINESS GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS ALL IN 1 DAY!

Workshop Topic Highlights:

Understanding Services & Key Marketing Techniques… for those just Beginning

The 7 Must Have Staging Systems… for those in business for up to 5 years

Reaching the Top: Perfecting Roles & Teams… for Advanced Home Staging Businesses

Special Guest Speakers Include: 

• Key Home Stagers & Business Owners
• Top Producing Real Estate Agents to help you target their market
• Industry Leaders to take your business to the next level

Be sure to check out the Seminar website at www.homestagingsuccessseminar.com for details on our awesome Venue, Registration and becoming a Sponsor!

Real Estate Investing Radio~ Lynn Andris-Home Staging with Model My Home

Kimberly~Model My Home

Modelmyhomestagingtv is THE place for all the staging information you need!  Share these exciting videos with your clients who NEED to know what staging is all about and how it can help them sell their homes FASTER and for MORE MONEY!!

Be sure to click the “like” button and PLEASE comment!  We want to know what you think of our videos and if you find them helpful!

Kimberly~Model My Home

• Vacant home is listed and vacant photos are taken and posted
• Realtor calls us for a staging quote
• Quote is accepted and we stage the home

Now what?

What should be next on that list is:

• New, staged photos are taken of the home
• Vacant photos are taken off the internet and replaced with staged photos

I know.  It is a lot of work.  But, if your client (or even YOU) paid for the home to be Staged, it stands to reason that NEW photos should be placed online for all the buyers out there to see!  If the majority of people start their new home search online, it is doing your client a disservice NOT to put the Staged photos online.  When the home is shown online as vacant, it is near impossible for people to see the sizes and layout of each room.

So, keeping this short…do your clients a BIG favor and get those Staged pictures online for the world to see!!!!

See how much better that is??

~Kimberly~ Model My Home

Take a quick look at this video we’ve created to see why you NEED to have your vacant homes Professionally Staged!  Jana Uselton and the Model My Home team will show you the process and what you need to know to get started!

Happy Staging!

Kimberly~Model My Home

1.  Got kids?  Get them involved!  Set up an area or a basket for your little ones to purge their own things.  If you set the tone, most kids will really get into sorting through their things, especially if you let them know that what they give up will go to a child who may not have as much as they have.  Really make it a positive thing for them and they will want to continue the tradition.

2. Set small, attainable goals.  Don’t try to de-clutter your home all in one day.  One room, even one closet at a time!  Set aside just an hour at a time if you need to.  If you are on a short time frame to get your home ready for listing, you might have to work a little harder, but you can still set and accomplish 1 small goal at a time.

3.  Keep it clean as you go!  It used to be, when I was spring cleaning, my house would look like a tornado went through it while I was purging and it was so overwhelming to get it all back in order.  Fortunately, I have learned from my own mistakes!  I use the “touch it once” rule.  Instead of making piles as I go, I designate areas for giving, trashing, & putting it in its place.  If it goes to any other room than the one I am in, it goes in a basket until I am done with that room.  Then I take that basket and put everything in its place immediately.  If it goes in the room I’m cleaning, I put it away right then and there. 

4.  Know what to keep and what to get rid of.  Have you ever seen the shows where they take super messy homes and in two days it is completely organized and clean?  Yeah…don’t we all wish.  But they do have that brilliant idea of sorting (which I mentioned above.)  Sorting is amazing.  Keep, toss, give.  The only three piles you need.  The key is….don’t go into the keep and give piles and take stuff out:-)

5.  Pre-pack anything you can.  If you are listing your home, here is a tip.  Whether you chose to hire a professional Home Stager or not, do yourself a favor and pre-pack!  Some of the things to pre-pack before you even start with staging: personal photos, anything that has your child’s name or your name on it, very personalized art, if you have a lot of knick knacks, pre-pack at least half of them.  Put all your mail away.  Don’t leave anything out or in the top of a drawer with your name or personal info on it.  If you have an abundance of extra sheets, blankets, or towels, pack some of them.  Your closets should be at about 70% capacity. 

6.  **staging tip** As you are pre-packing, set aside neutral accessories to use for staging your home.  Neutral wall art, vases, throw pillows, etc.  Once you have pre-packed, these items can be used by either your or your staging professional to stage your home for showings.

Happy Packing!!!

Kimberly, Model My Home

But for now….please check out our first piece!

New, this year, is our Home Staging Calculator, and yes….there’s an app for that!  Currently, if you are an iPhone, iPad, iTouch, etc. user, you can download this handy Home Staging Calculator for only $4.99!  Thankfully, for those of us non apple users, they are working on apps for Android and Blackberry phones as we speak!  If you want to use the calculator for free…well, there is a way to do that too! 

Click on this link to go to the Real Estate Staging Association page and use the calculator here!

You can use this Calculator to show your clients real-time numbers so they can see just how much staging their home will save them.   You will need to know a few things to calculate their savings. 

1.  Monthly mortgage amount  (example:  $1875.00  based on a $25000 home)

2.  Monthly carrying costs for the home  (ex: $1500)

3.  Months on Market:  average amount of months homes sit on market in your area  (ex: 9)

4.  Reduction on Months after staging:  Again, average for your area…in the DFW area it is on average 78% less time for vacants  (ex: 7)

5.  Staging fee:  You can get this estimate from your local stager (ex: $1250)

When you imput this information, it will calculate your savings! 

So, based on the exampled information, the cost to list this home unstaged is estimated at a staggering $30,375!  (if on market for the avg 9 months)

Estimated savings when the home is staged first…$22,375! 

 How great is that?  This is especially useful when you have a client who is a “numbers” person, or if they are unsure if the cost of staging is worth their investment. 

Of course WE all know it is, don’t we?  Right!  So, now you have a tool to help your client’s see for themselves!

Here at Model My Home, we use this calculator all the time to show our clients the potential they have for saving money.  In the long run, it is so much easier and cost-effective to spend less than the amount of a mortgage payment to stage the home when your savings is that enormous!  Who can argue with this logic?  Well, since most of the clients who call us, actually use us to stage their homes…it’s not them doing the arguing.

Hey there all my Realtor Friends!!!

I have a question, and I want you to be completely honest. Do you recommend staging to your clients?  Do you work with a stager?  Why or why not?

Here’s the why behind the questions.  I would like to know what works for you and what doesn’t.  You might be asking, “What difference does it make?” so let me explain. 

Here at MMH, we are brainstorming ways to step up the game.  We want to know what works for you so that we can keep doing it.  What doesn’t work for you so we can fix it.  What you need that you aren’t getting so that we can provide it!  See!  It’s all about YOU! 

In all serious-ness, we love and appreciate our Realtor friends, our Investor friends, our Builder friends, and our Homeowners.  And since our business is service based, we want to make sure that our services are SERVING YOU.  I figure the best way to give you what you need is to hear it from the horse’s mouth, so to speak.

So, please, let me know.  I want it all….the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!

Thanks!

Kimberly ~ MMH