Social Media Webinar with Staged Homes.Com

Well hello and Happy Presidents Day.  Today I took a webinar in Social Media through StagedHomes.com.  I guess I have been doing everything wrong!  I learned a lot and hope I will continue learning how to blog most importantly.  Not sure how you all get those great fonts and backgrounds etc.  I learned the importance of blogging today but not the HOW TO part.  I learned to link my blog, facebook, pinterest, linked in accounts to my web site.

I am happy to announce that the property I Staged in Hingham went under agreement within three days!  I will share some photos of that property now.  This was a vacant property, I supplied everything you see in the photos.  I have an extensive inventory that I use to Stage homes for sale.  The couch in this picture was to be sitting on the edge of the rug.  The cleaning woman forgot to put it back where it belonged.

 

 

Again the cleaning ladies moved my stump table from next to the chair to in front of the window, lol.  I hope you all enjoyed looking at some of recent work.  I will add some more recent jobs tomorrow, wish full thinking anyway.

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more furniture painted with ascp

furniture I have painted with ASCP

Staging photos

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

Are you looking to sell your home? Your families estate? If you believe in statistacs than you have to believe in staging. I have staged over 50 homes on the North Shore within the past two years and they have all sold so much faster than if they were not staged. 97% of my homes received offers after the first open house that were accepted.
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

Do you want to see your house fast for top dollar

Do you want to sell your house and for top dollar? If so you need to call me and have your property staged. 93% of my staged homes sell within 30 days. Let me help you find a realtor that will price your home properly and will market your house for you...and have me stage it ..that combination is a win win situation for anyone looking to sell their home today.
Jeanne Conroy Monaco, ASP, IAHSP
Always hire an ASP as we have the education, dedication and resources to help you sell your home fast and for the most money!

Staging sells houses fast for top dollar

I finally found my blog again (laughing) I couldn't remember how to access it. Well we have been busy de-staging property after property...Staging has slowed down these past few months however the ones we did 60-90 days ago are all sold with the exception of one. This just proves that Staging really does work.

Staging update

Well, it has been a very busy and successful New Year. I have staged from Somerville to Magnolia to Pepperell back to Boxford since the first. I finished Middleton in January they did receive one offer after a week but not a good enough offer so it was not accepted. I de-staged the Beverly condo after a fast sale and delivered that condo right to Magnolia, I completed Danvers on Friday( this property has been on the market for approx. one year with no good offers, first open was on Sunday, two offers on Monday one accepted...Yahoo for staging. I completed Wenham, first open was on Sunday the 15th no offers but some interest...I completed Somerville, first open was on the 15th...no offers yet...but interest and action. I completed Magnolia first open is next Sunday...lets hope for offers(this property was staged by Yankee Magazine and featured as a "green house" last year, they had two potential buyers that didn't pan out, I just completed staging it, let's see what happens. I began in Pepperell today, they will be living in there home this was a re-design. I will post pics as soon as I get them from photographer. Staging is truly amazing, I love it and I love the results it brings to all my clients. If you are thinking of selling YOU must think of staging.

BUSY STAGING AND HELPING TO SELL HOMES

Well it has been some time now since I wrote. I just finished a great job in Midleton, will write more later. Today finished up in Wenham and off to Danvers in the morning. Waiting to get the go ahead to begin unstaging Beverly this week. Finished tweaking Somerville to be put back on the market this week. I hope to take a day off this week and then I can blog and add my pics etc.
Jeanne

BUSY SEASON FOR STAGERS

Hello everyone,
What a great time to be an Accredited Staging Professional! I am straight out busy ...and my properties keep selling ...Hamilton 11 days after staging..Beverly 17 days...lets hope Middleton, Wenham and Boxford do as well.
I will write more towards week end.

happy holidays and happy staging

Do you have your home on the market during the holidays? Do you feel you are going to lose your mind...well you dont have to...here are some helpful hints to live in your home during the holidays while it is on the market

• wrap all gifts in the same neutral paper
• keep decorations to a minimal
• pack up everyday items when putting out holiday ones..you will be packing them anyway so do it now and save a step.
• celebrate the season when at all possible and skip the holiday
• think of this as a great time to pack everyday items and then after the holidays you can pack and store your holiday displays.

I DO hope this helped...any questions or problems please email me.

Well, You staging stalkers I am off to Wenham in the am for a consult then I begin staging Beverly....just dropping off staging supplies tomorrow and will start staging Wednesday. I also hope to swing by and say hello to my Hamilton job while they are settling in their new home. So I am pretty well booked from now until january 22. However if you need me I can always manage...If you are considering putting your home on the market consider staging, it works.

Holidays are approaching

Hello everyone,
I have finally caught up on some well needed rest. Business has been booming and Staging is working. Monday begins another busy week for me. I have been scheduling all the contractors for my upcoming job in Middleton. We had a pre-staged broker open house the other day it was so much fun to get the recommendations from the realtors and compare it to my recommendations...we were all pretty much in sync. I served them a simple breakfast and toured them through the property. This has been a great opportunity for me as the homeowner is a realtor at Keller Williams and she is using this as a test product for staging. She has given me a budget to work in for the contractors and the staging and as I said we had a prestaged tour and once the project is complete we will have the same realtors in for a post staging tour. This thursday I will attend a special class at Keller Williams Beverly office to see how they instruct the agents as to price this home. I have already put more time into this staging job than most completed projects but it has been well worth it. I haven't even begun the staging process and already have invested at least 40 hrs . I believe it will all pay off in the end.

On another note the joy of staging....Last night we went out to dinner with my assistant and a client and his friend. We had so much fun, laughs, good food, good wine. If it were not for staging I would have never known this three wonderful people. Hopefully tomorrow I can swing by Hamiliton to visit my most recent client in their new home.

I LOVE MY JOB AND ALL THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE I WORK FOR. HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE.

Best,
Jeanne

TIRED STAGER..BUT TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY

Hello all you interested Stagers....it has been a busy week, month for me. Today I was in Beverly delivering paint for my next job...and then it was back to Hamiliton at 4 to begin the de-staging process (the worst part of staging) I had to remove all my inventory from their home load my car(s) come home, unload, re-pack for beverly....re-stock my inventory, etc. It was sad to take all my inventory from Hamiliton as the house looked so awesome with all my things..it was sad to say goodbye to new friends..but friends I know I will still have...we have actually shopped for bargains together and I know we will continue to do so. It is amazing the people you meet along your journey...but you know what they say...you meet the same people on the way up as you do on the way down..the big and the little both have need of eachother....not sure where that came from, but a good message.
I am god willing attending the KW Beverly Holiday sale on Friday..I have a consult in the morning .. but I do hope it allows me to still attend the shopping event and participate. One part of being a stager I will never get use to is the change in schedule hour by hour...but it is all worth it.
I am going to see if I can figure out how to download pics from the somerville job and post them here so until I do, goodnight.
best,
Jeane

ANOTHER SATISFIED CUSTOMER..AND NEW FRIEND

What can I say, I love my job...I get the opportunity to meet some of the kindest, most wonderful people. The family that wrote the below testimonial was one of the neatest families I have ever met (they actually all sit at the table and share breakfast and dinner together.) All of their grown children contributed to the move, they are amazing. I am so lucky to meet such great folks. See below:

Hi Jeanne, the following is to go on your blog: Jeanne visited my home four days after I decided to sell it out of the blue. I wasn't planning on moving for two years but the house I am buying came up for sale and it is 'me'! Jeanne has a phenomenal eye. She saw through my 28 years of clutter and her vision for transforming my house for 'sale ready' was nothing short of miraculous. Jeanne staged it in one day and we had an offer 11 days later!! We close and move next week, six weeks after it being placed on the market! It is nothing short of amazing how she can take your things, add a few others and you then have a home you never knew could look like those in a magazine!! I have learned that staging is not just for selling. I want her to come to my new house and help me stage that, too! Best, Debbie

STAGERS BEWARE..AND BE PREPARED

OMG.....staging a vacant this past week.. a condo conversion...the owner of the first floor was all over the place ... unannounced ..just showed up...that was weird in of its self. But then when he charged at me and my assistant as we arrived and I threw a cigarette butt out of the car and he lost it..omg..scary. He was a certifiable loon...he was shaking, erratic, as he charged the vehicle yelling at us that we broke the law with dispensing of cigarette butts. He was even scarier when he shut it off as fast as he turned it on.

STAGERS BEWARE AND BE SAFE ALWAYS

OH MY GOSH!
STAGERS BEWARE, DO NOT GO TO A JOB ALONE...IF YOU DO BRING YOUR CELL PHONE NAD CHARGER.
THIS IS A SERIOUS MATTER
YOU NEVER KNOW WHO YOU ARE DEALING WITH
OMG..WHAT A DAY AND THANK THE LORD I HAD AN ASSISTANT WITH ME
PEOPLE ARE CRAZY OUT THERE
I WILL WRITE DETAILS LATER...JUST DO NOT GO ON A JOB ALONE, EVER, EVER

WORD TO THE WISE

Hello out there in bloggerville...
My words of wisdom for the day....do not try to do a presentation that requires 4 hours set up on 3 hours sleep, you will sound like a blundering idiot..I did my holiday demonstration on Monday at 9 am, a good amount of people in the audience ... I was so well prepared had a script and all but did I follow it, NO..I was so sleep deprived between oldest son smashing into a tree on Friday night and waking me at 1am....oldest daughter moving thursday before and helping her until 3am...coming home friday and working on display items for the demo..saturday spending all day doing final touches to presentation until 3am....sunday finding out I couldnt get in the barn until monday morning loaded the car until 1am....and then up at 445 to get ready to finish loading car and to the barn I go at 7am..needless to say I wasnt orgainized or prepared for the demonstration...I had a very nice fellow BNI member trying to help me she is in the storage business not the staging or decorating but she did the best she could and she worked very hard and took good direction...thank you gayla. I had invited other disciplines from my bni the flower arranger, the storage people, the caterer, the shaklee rep, etc. and they did an awesome job and I thank them. I want to do it all over again when my kids are behaving and I get some sleep, I truly had a great presentation planned. Please tell me what age do the kids grow up and deal with their own issues on their own. I was on the south shore today collecting my oldest sons belongings out of the truck I paid for in full that he drove into a tree last week...as I dialed 411 for my oldest daughter, for some reason her phone would'nt call 411 do you think it was the 1.50 charge per call? Then we were to head to Ikea together, well guess what that was the highlight of my day and she got wrapped up in her personal stuff and we didnt do it...I begin a new staging job tomorrow...do you think they will be there to help me? I will wait and see...but why should they Mike is driving to and from work and wherever else in my car..cait is at her dads sleeping after I helped pay her rent for the new place I knew she would hate because it is too small and I am here worrying about them...something wrong with this picture. I moved last september I dont remember seeing either of their faces helping me with the move...oh wait I do remember Mike while he was getting paid an hourly wage to do dump runs and mow the lawn....cait where were you? As I packed, trucked and cleaned your part of the house? But oh yes Mom will be there for you...no worries, remember my name is oh damn is it s***ker or is it mom? I will never know in my lifetime.
The babbling idiot stager,
jeanne
oh p.s. Zac dont worry I will be there to get you from football, help you with your homework, drive you to your friends, pick you up from football, stop on my way home from a long day to get you tha video game and make you those pancakes in the morning with lots of butter, little syrup,oh and was it steak you wanted for dinner? Gatoraides light blue not dark ones like I got today..Oh I will run out and get you the clothes you need for tomorrows field trip and chuck will drive your friends home and order the pizza....oh did you say you needed an other lunch ticket and I have a meeting at your school....another note for being late for 2 minutes ... oh your favorite jeans arent clean hold on I will have them ready in the morning...damn your football shirt in your room that stinks needs to be ready by the morning...no problem...dont forget I need to be at my BNI meeting in the morning leaving at 630...but dont worry you dont have to walk to the bus chuck will drive you...and I am heading to boston to work after my meeting...so if you forget anything call chuck he remembers the combo to your locker when he had to get your football gear you left at school...oh one more thing I bought you new deodorant today as you left yours at tims and were using chucks this morning...and all your socks are clean so open your drawer and stay out of chucks.
Also, Mike your work clothes are clean and in your drawers..and I picked up your winter coat in weymouth today at the auto shop so dont worry about being cold tomorrow.
Oh and thanksgiving next week when is anyone telling me what the hell they are doing...should I buy the turkey or head north? It would be nice to know by weeks end.
Thanks,
Your loving mother
Chelsea I will start on you tomorrow, smiling, I love you all but remember I am one you are four.
look to each other and let mom have a day off. Hugs and kisses, love all four of you!

HOLIDAY STAGING PRESENTATION

Good morning.....Is everyone ready for the holidays? Is your house decluttered? clean? Have you unpacked or located your holiday decorating items, your china, silver, napkins, etc. if not you may want to come to the Gould Barn in Topsfield Monday, November 17th at 9:30 am and see a hands on demonstration on how to transistion your holiday decor from holiday to the next, creative handmade items for your table top, how to set the perfect table, decorating your mantel, door, centerpieces, etc. etc.
There will be several professionals there that can give you tips and tricks to help you prepare for a stress free holiday decorating. Also, Kelli Petri Catering will be preparing the food, yummy!
Please come join us for a fun filled morning, no pressure, no sales pitches.
Hope to see you all Monday, you will be glad you came there will be something for everyone.
Also, there will be raffles and door prizes.

LEARNING CURVE

Hello out there,
It has been awhile...I have been staging away from Somerville to Hamilton to Middleton. I am having so much fun and loving my job and my work. I have been fortunate to have a great assistant on my last three jobs it is always hard to let go of some control...but I have learned to and it feels good. The job we just completed in Hamilton came out fabulous and unknown to us when we began on Monday that there would be a broker open house on Tues. at 11am. We ended up working until 1030 pm. But we got it done it was a totally new experience for me speed staging, but it worked.
Today I got the biggest compliment of my staging career. The realtor for Hamilton called me to share with me that during her open house today another stager toured the home and said I did a great job! Nothing better than a fellow stager complimenting your work.
I will write more on this later.....lots to share on this very exciting job.
Best to all,
Jeanne
Check me out on StagedHomes.com type in 01921 in the search page.

WHO KNEW???

Hello,

Who knew? That you could stage a property and then when it doesnt work in todays market you can restage and retransform the place into to something totally different. Well I did just that at 31 Adams Street, Somerville...we created a two bedroom condo with a formal living and dining room, eat in kitchen...from a two bedroom living room and eat in kitchen. Staging is wonderful...you can turn anything in to something.

Jeanne