An investment in staging creates better buyer perception. In our various CE classes, blog posts, and conversations with Realtors and homeowners, Rave Home Staging educates on the value of staging your home in order to maximize the amount of money you’ll receive at the closing table. Thanks to an experiment provided by retailer giant, Payless…
How long does it take to stage your Jacksonville, FL home?
The question of “How long does it take to stage our home in Jacksonville?” is pretty common. Regardless of whether the house is vacant (empty) or occupied (using your stuff), the answer is generally about the same. Rave Home Staging will have your Jacksonville home staged in one day. Here’s what you can typically expect…
Top Mistakes Real Estate Fix and Flip Investors Make.
If you follow Rave Home Staging, then you know that a large percentage of our business is working with Real Estate Investors, particularly Fix and Flippers. Recently, we were contacted by Asset Based Lending, LLC to share an infographic they created that outline the most common mistakes for these investors. I had to admit, I…
You get what you pay for. Cheap home staging can cost you thousands!
It seems that our Jacksonville home staging company has been called in a lot lately to “fix” the market presentation of properties that were previously staged by other companies. Whether it is the listing agent contacting us, or the homeowner, the conversation always seems to go the same way. “We went with the cheaper option.”…
5 Tools Every Stager (and most homeowners) should keep in their tool kit!
I’ve been a professional home stager for about 13 years now. I have had almost every kind of gadget you could own but over the last year, I’ve pared down my tool kit to the essentials. Aside from the standard hammer, nails, picture hooks, and picture wires, here are my top 5 staging tools. To…
Which home would you rather list? Which would your customers BUY?
When I say that I am a professional home stager, the next questions usually revolves around whether I would come “do” someone else’s home – that they are living in. Then I need to go into the whole story of how staging isn’t about interior design or decorating, it’s really about MARKETING! I can understand the…
How to make the most money after staging your previously listed home
So, you’ve finally decided to stage your home? The bad news is that you’ve already missed the buyer pool who would have paid you the most money. The good news is that you are in better shape to get top dollar than you were before you staged. In order for home staging to be effective,…
Home Staging Increases Perceived Value
If you’ve ever talked with a professional home stager, you’ve heard the phrase, “Home Staging sells homes faster, and for more money.”, or something similar. It’s become such a cliche, that it’s as if no one ever thinks about how this is true. Sadly, most home stagers don’t take the time to educate potential customers…
Fleming Island Gets The Edge With Home Staging
Not all home sellers believe in staging at first. Sometimes it takes a great Realtor, with tenacious belief that all homes can do just a little bit better when professionals are allowed to manage things in the proper way. In this case, Jaime Tejera and Valerie Kelley, with The Edge Group at Keller Williams, were…
Does home staging in Jacksonville really work?
The question regularly comes about, whether directly asked, or in a round about way, of whether home staging, here in Jacksonville, actually works. Can you PROVE that home staging saves time on market or gets the seller better offers? As the owner of Rave Home Staging, one of my favorite things is to watch how…