CSP International Recommends Stagers Use Shaklee Products

As part of their Greener Earth initiative, CSP International Business Training Academy announced its support today of Shaklee cleaning products.
Living and working green has been our mantra since August 2008 when we formed our global educational partnership with the LiveGreen, LiveSmart Institute to teach the Certified EcoProfessional (CEP) program. Rae said it has [...]

Tips for new Homeowners:Just as important as getting your first home, is staying in it

 
Just as important as getting your first home, is staying in it
Tips for new Homeowners:
Congratulations’ on the purchase of your new home…. 
A home for most is our largest investment, but if you’re not careful it can be a financial nightmare.  As you leap into homeownership, be sure to consider some practical concerns.
 You now can turn [...]

Home Staging the Backyard

As we enter the lazy, hazy days of summer, prospective buyers are more acutely focused on the backyard and outdoor living.  As a seller, you need to pay particular attention to what lies beyond the backdoor.  The following tips will help you set priorities to ensure that your backyard is inviting for buyers to come [...]

Home Staging Experts Help Sellers Earn Their Equity

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Chic Home interiors uses lifestyle selling techniques to create that feeling of home that brings the offers rolling in. Staging is a marketing tool for selling a house and, as in all marketing, we want to target our audience and appeal to the largest potential base of [...]

HOMEOWNERS: MAXIMIZE YOUR INVESTMENT, SECRETS FOR SELLING YOUR HOME

10 SECRETS FOR SELLING YOUR HOME
1. FIRST IMPRESSION IS THE ONLY IMPRESSION    No matter how good in interior looks, the buyer has already judged your home by the outside view. There is never a second chance at a first impression. -It’s 100% return on curb appeal investing.
2.  ALWAYS BE READY TO SHOW.   Your house has [...]

ecoACTION and Grants for Residential Property Owners

I thought I would pass along some information regarding grants available to you by making your home more eco-Friendly.
Example: For each energy star window installed? you can get $30 from the Federal government and $30 from Provincial government. For 10 windows, that would be $600.00. It costs approximately $300-$350 for the first [...]

Keep it out of the landfill!

We all want to make a difference for the planet…but as eco-stagers how do we do that?  Besides being a Certified Canadian Staging Professional, I am also an Environmental Science Technologist and have seen the impact that waste and toxins have on our environment first hand.  I have been to many landfills and the amount [...]

Vancouver Stagers – Join the Green Design Revolution!

The other day someone asked me why, as a stager, I thought it would be important to clients or real estate agents that a Stager understood green. It is funny, their question made me step back and I realized that the question never occurred to me because I just thought folks would automatically see [...]

From the Mouths of Babes… Greening the White House…

I was just watching the Early Show and they are interviewing kids about what first things they think Obama should do in the White House. It was adorable – the usual “take his daughters to a water park” and “put in some bean bag chairs in front of a TV and sit down and [...]

Go Green in 2009!

The comments to my last blog “Go Green in 2009″ by Dallas Realtor® on ActiveRain prompted me to write this second blog to clarify and tell you some fabulous facts about going green brought to you by the green partnership of Certified Staging Professionals and Live Green Live Smart.
Green Factoids from the LGLS Certified Professional [...]

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