Charles Wood

Tips for Real Estate Agents for utilizing home staging in your listings:

1) Hire a "Professional": not all home stagers are created equal, make sure you partner with an accredited professional home stager, who has the training, expertise and inventory of furnishings & accessories to do the job right the first time!

2) Teamwork: as with any job in life, having your "team" of professionals in place will make listing a home simpler, less stressful and more successful.. make sure a home stager is at the top of your list!

3) We'll do your dirty work: often as the listing agent it can be awkward being honest with your client about what they really need to do to get the home ready to show at the risk of offending or overwhelming them.. don't compromise your listing.. hire a professional who is trained and tactful at easing your client through the process and will share invaluable insight from a "first look" point of view.

4) Tick Tock Tick Tock.. Time is of the essence: when is the best time to introduce a home stager? Sooner rather than later. Many agents include us in their home seller introductory packet, website, as well as the first meeting with a potential client. Having your home stager with you at first meetig will impress your client, give them a jump start on getting the home in order, and show them that you are serious, knowledgeable and dedicated about selling their home!

Up Next.. The Home Seller and the Professional Home Stager

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Brite Ideas Home Staging & Redesign, Sacramento CA

(916)599-4102

"Every home, Every time deserves a Brite Idea"

The American Society of Home Stagers and Redesigners (ASHSR) has appointed Charles Wood of Brite Ideas Home Staging & Redesign to pioneer the new Sacramento Valley, California Chapter of ASHSR.

ASHSR is a national trade organization whose mission is to develop, educate, unite, lead and promote Professional Home Stagers and Redesigners at the local level, and the industry as a whole nationally.

We are excited to have our own Chapter here in Sacramento! It is open to all home stagers, redesigners and real estate professionals regardless of training, certification or affiliation! It is a great opportunity for us all to come together, have a lot of fun, meet our peers.. share ideas.. learn.. volunteer in the community and promote the immense value of home staging to the speedy and successful sale of homes in our community.

Check us out at www.ashsr.com (Sacramento Chapter) or feel free to give me a call at (916)599-4102 for more information.

ASHSR.. creating beautiful spaces one home at a time

NEW FOR FALL! $800 Vacant Home Staging Special!

Brite Ideas Home Staging & Redesign, Sacramento CA introduces a budget friendly home staging special for the FALL 2009 Season.

$800 Vacant Home Staging Special!

• 5 Rooms of Furniture and Accessories!
• Up to 60 days rental included
• Homes 1500 sf & under

Great for the budget conscious client, Investor Properties, Foreclosures, Short Sales!

Staged rooms include: Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, Bathroom & Flex Room (choice of Office, Bedroom or Breakfast Nook)

This fall you can't NOT afford to professionally stage your home!

Call Charles at Brite Ideas today (916)599-4102

Serving all of Sacramento, Elk Grove, Roseville, Lincoln, Folsom, Granite Bay, Carmichael, Davis

A group of local Professional Home Stagers in Sacramento, CA are looking to give back to our community by staging a room in a local non-profit women's shelter. This is all new to us and we are looking for ideas and advice on how to proceed. Does anybody have any experience that they can share with us in this type of community service? We know we will need to approach local businesses for donations etc.. but I thought with this wonderful big community on Active Rain we might be able to get some great tips, advice and leads from some of you!

Since I can never figure out.. what to blog about that is new and interesting, I just decided to create my blog about my recently "staged homes" with pictures & some information. The goal is to have my staged homes sell within 30 days. I'll keep you updated on this one!

This is a really charming East Sacramento cottage located at 1216 58th Street in Sacramento. Listed by my realtor partner Charlene Singley with Lyon Real Estate www.charlenesingley.com . This vacant home has tons of cottage character and we wanted to build upon that with the home staging. It was staged by me on January 14th, 2009... lets see if we can get is SOLD in 30 days!!