You can sell your house in any market fast and for more with Home Staging. Learn how, why and when home staging works, how much more you can sell your house for, how fast you can expect it to sell, how to find a great home stager and how much it costs. Home staging works and is a great investment! Lately the market has gotten much slower and Alaska is reported to be facing a recession. If you need to sell your house, you can still outshine the competition. Home staging works in both a buyers and Read more […]
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Do I need to stage a high end home?
Do you need to stage a high end home? I often get calls from home owners who have put high end homes on the market but they are not selling. After sitting on the market with no offers, they wonder why? So before yet another large price reduction, they wonder if staging will help.Why would it be important to stage a nice high end home before listing? Here are a few examples. The personal taste of the owner does not appeal to the majority of buyers. You may have beautiful Read more […]
Helpful Tips on Finding a Great Home Stager
Looking for Helpful Tips on Finding a Great Home Stager? Watch this video to help you consider what to look for. https://youtu.be/vbz55Oex5Pk Selling a home today often comes down to first impressions. People want to know how to sell their house fast and for top dollar! What’s the secret to making a property outshine everything else on the market? A house needs to first attract buyers online with great photos that make them want to see it in person. Once inside, a buyer can then make Read more […]
Mary Ann Benoit with Northern Lights Home Staging & Design – Not The Usual Success Story
We hope you enjoy this article and podcast on Anchorage Advice Givers about Mary Ann Benoit and Northern Lights Home Staging and Design. Learn about what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur and to start your own home staging and design business. Mary Ann, the foremost home stager in south-central Alaska, provides an award winning, versatile, and unique one-stop shop for home staging, Interior Design, Edesign and color consulting for homes and vacation rental properties. Learn more Read more […]
Home Sellers/Realtors- Are you Penny Wise but Pound Foolish?
Low Cost Home Staging Can Cost You Money We have all experienced a time when we were “penny wise but pound foolish” and regretted buying something because it had the lowest price, only to find out the item broke too soon, was not the quality we were looking for, had maintenance problems or other issues. I know I have with a few vehicles I have purchased!If we had just purchased a higher quality item, it would have saved us money in the long run and we would have been much happier with our Read more […]
Interview with Mary Ann Benoit on Anchorage Advice Givers
Mary Ann Benoit of Northern Lights Home Staging and Design was honored to be interviewed by Kris Bohman of Anchorage Advice Givers on her experiences as an entrepreneur, and as a home stager, starting and running Northern Lights Home Staging and Design. The interview gives insight on why she is passionate about home staging and design. It also provides some great advice if you are interested in starting your own business, whatever that may be. See the interview below. https://youtu.be/l5c3QST32ZQ If Read more […]
Will Buyers Fall in Love with Your Vacant House?
Selling a vacant house is difficult, for a variety of reasons. With nothing else to look at, buyers tend to focus on every flaw. Buyers have a hard time visualizing how big the space is and it often appears smaller than it is. They can not picture how their own furniture might fit in the space, especially if you have a challenging layout. And most important, it is very difficult for buyers to make an emotional connection with a vacant house! They look a little sad and lonely! Here is an example Read more […]
6 House Showing Survival Tips for Life in the Real Estate Market
Selling a house is stressful. Try these 6 house showing survival tips for life in the real estate market from Debra Gould, the “Staging Diva”. Whether you’ve already put in a conditional offer on your dream home or you’re being forced to move for a job transfer, if your house is on the real estate market you’re probably hoping to sell fast for the most money possible. Home staging is known to reduce the number of days a home spends on the market before it sells, but it can be very difficult Read more […]
Home Staging- What’s in it for you?
For most of us, our home is our biggest financial asset. When it’s time to sell and move on, we want to sell it for as much as possible and as quickly as possible. None of want to spend any more on the house we our selling…. None of us want to continue to pay a mortgage and taxes on a home sitting on the market or take a price reduction of thousands if it does not sell quickly. So why home stage? What’s in it for you? A small investment can potentially reap an increased sale price up to Read more […]
Home Staging a Must-Have Marketing Tool for Real Estate Agents
Home staging expert Debra Gould receives countless email messages from real estate agents asking whether they should recommend that their clients hire a home stager. In Gould’s experience, she has found that real estate agents are hesitant to utilize the services of professional home stagers for three key reasons: They do not fully understand what a stager really does. They feel that they provide adequate advice to their clients regarding improvements needed for the home to sell. They Read more […]