Fun "Before and After Staging" Video Shows Why Home Sellers Should Stage Their Homes To Sell With RE:STYLE!
Enjoy!
And if you need to have your house staged, give us a call at 810-333-5240!
Cold Day, Hot Turnout!
Nearly 50 art lovers braved a cold Michigan afternoon to come out to 6020 Wyndam Lane and admire the work of 4 local artists, and the staging work of RE:STYLE. Oh yes, they were also taking in all the great features of this gorgeous house!
And The Winner Is...
Another big draw was the chance to win an 8-day, 7-night stay in the winner's choice of resort condominiums from all over the world! The lucky winner is from Brighton!
Buy the Art, Buy the House, or Buy Both!
If you'd like a chance to purchase any of the art, here's who to contact:
Featured Artists:
Anne Marie Buckman
810-225-9005
AMBuckman.com
Linda Dunn
810-229-0835
Kim Isaac
810-523-4729
Kally Walcott
810-220-3253
Or, to buy the house:
6020 Wyndam Lane (Pine Creek)
Brighton 48116
MLS# 28165241
$449,900
Sheryl McIntyre, Coldwell Banker Schweitzer 810-623-3733 (810-229-4016—HOME OFFICE)
From Lived In, To Vacant, To Staged!
RE:STYLE staged this house to appeal to the target--a young professional couple or perhaps a single man or woman. Because winters are long and gray in Michigan, we used bright colors to liven up the look and create a very happy atmosphere! We also made the bay window serve as a functional window seat for more appeal.
We carried the color scheme throughout the house, including the kitchen and breakfast nook. Doesn't it look cheerful?
We even kept the warm colors going in the bath! And now, here are a few more "after" photos of this great house! It's just $199,000, by the way!
If you are selling a house in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area, contact RE:STYLE Home Staging and Redesign for a consultation or hands-on staging of a lived-in or vacant house. Our work is designed to sell!
Putting Your House On the Market and Waiting to See What Happens?
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In a buyers' market, it's imperative to price your house correctly and to stage it--before it ever goes on the market! If you decide that you can't afford to stage your house before you market it, here's what happens:
1. Your house doesn't show its best in the photos on the Internet or in any marketing materials your Realtor creates.
80% of all home buyers search for a home by looking at those Internet photos. You just lost your chance to make that all-important first impression!
2. The first few weeks on the market are when you get the most viewings.
Again, you are not putting your best face forward during this crucial selling timeframe. Just try to get those buyers back once you decide you better stage your house! Opportuity lost...
3. Housing prices are continuing to decline.
Every day your un-staged house languishes on the market is costing you $$$! Not just the money you're losing (about 1% monthly in my geographic area), but all the money you're spending keeping that house going--mortgage payments, taxes, heat, light, insurance, etc. For the cost of one month's holding costs, you could probably stage your house completely. For much less than that, you could get a Consultation Report and stage it yourself, with little or no assistance from a professional home stager.
4. You reduce your price in order to attract more buyers.
The investment in staging is always less than your first price reduction!
Conclusion: You really can't afford NOT to stage!
If you are selling in the Michigan counties of Livingston, Washtenaw, western Oakland or southern Genesee, contact RE:STYLE Home Staging and Redesign. We can help you prepare your house for sale, for less than you might believe. Please contact Kathi Presutti at 810-333-5240 today!
Local Businesses Provide a Fun Twist on Secret Santa with their "Finders, Keepers" Gift Bag Event
Some little extras will be scattered around town this week in hopes of spreading some extra holiday cheer over Brighton. Taking the lead from a recent Coopers & Binkley promotion, three local businesses created thirty gift bags filled with goodies that will be left in thirty area business establishments. Where will they be? That’s for the finders to find. Once they find, they keep!
"We just wanted to add a special element of fun and surprise to the season, especially with the economic climate the way it is," says Joanne Giardini of NuStar Insurance Agencies, the brains behind this project. “A friend had stumbled upon a small jewelry box containing earrings from Coopers & Binkley as they celebrated a store event. I loved the idea immediately and felt it would be something fun to spread around the community – especially during the holidays.”
Giardini enlisted the help of two local colleagues, Larry Patzsch of RE/MAX Platinum and Kathi Presutti, owner of RE:STYLE Home Staging and Redesign, to help out. The trio gathered small gift items from Biggby Coffee, Stillwater, Brighton Little Caesar’s, Rainbow Car Wash, Just So!, Shine Salon and Beaver Island Jewelry. Giardini, Patzsch and Presutti will distribute the thirty gift bags to local establishments later this week.
“We’re hoping that whomever finds these gifts will simply smile and feel lucky!” says Giardini. Let the games begin!
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RE:STYLE, a leading home staging company, staged $10.9 million in SOLD! real estate in 2007. RE:STYLE's work has been seen on HGTV's National Open House & the Today Show.
Get The Selling Advantage From Michigan's Premiere Staging Resource
Kathi Presutti is the owner of RE:STYLE LLC, and an Accredited Staging Professional (ASP). With a design degree from the University of Michigan, and a successful career as an advertising executive (she was an Executive Creative Director) behind her, she looks at home staging from a marketing point of view. To Kathi, every home for sale is actually a house that is a product on the market, in competition with every other house, including new-builds. RE:STYLE has many success stories, which can be found at www.ReStyleStaging.com
RE:STYLE works with Realtors and their clients, and also directly with homeowners. But RE:STYLE has a special affinity for staging vacant properties, drawing on its extensive inventory of accessories, artwork and smaller pieces of furniture. Vacant properties are particularly prone to staying on the market longer, as buyers are often unable to visualize how their furnishings will fit into the space. Vacant properties also leave buyers cold because they aren't as warm and inviting as lived-in properties, lacking that WOW factor that makes buyers remember them, and fall in love at first sight.
RE:STYLE's statistics mirror the national ones; houses that are staged by RE:STYLE sell twice as quickly as un-staged homes. What a difference that can make in this challenging buyers' market!
Investment Considerations
Remember, the investment in staging is always less than that first price reduction! The cost of staging doesn't need to be expensive. In lived-in houses, the idea is to use as much of the homeowners' possessions as possible. And when staging a vacant house, it's important to remember all the money that'll be saved by selling the house just one or two months more quickly: mortgage payment, heat, electricity, taxes, insurance, maintenance, etc.
There are many ways to cover the investment in staging
RE:STYLE offers one-hour verbal consultations at a nominal cost, often paid for by Realtors as a way to give added value to their clients. Some Realtors (often top producers--does that tell you something?) will pay for several hours of staging, or even share the cost of staging a vacant property. By asking homeowners to pay upfront, and then reimbursing them at closing, a Realtor can help ensure that the listing stays with him/her.
Our work is designed to sell...
RE:STYLE your house and restyle your life. Staging with RE:STYLE helps homeowners to move on with their lives. Living in a staged house can be a very freeing feeling. When the clutter is gone, so is the stress. Even if you aren't selling, you may enjoy staging your house to live!
Our clients say the nicest things! Below you will find comments from homeowners, Realtors, and others, including Barb Schwarz, the founder of Home Staging!
Quotes about RE:STYLE from Barb Schwarz, founder of Home Staging® and CEO of StagedHomes.com: Girl, look what you have done…these are some of the best I have ever seen and I mean it…I am putting you into the newsletter and I want to know if it is alright with you to put your pics on the home page of SHC? Also, can I add them to our photos in class with full credit to you and also on the before and after section of pics in the university with full credit to you…? Please let me know as it would be my honor to ‘brag’ on you and toot your horn…Fabulous…fabulous…you did such a wonderful job…”
“This is fabulous and I’m so proud of you for all you are accomplishing. You are doing wonderful!! Please be sure to let us know when to watch National Open House. I’m putting the pics in the newsletter too. If you have any before shots and please send your press coverage for the newsletter piece. Thank you for telling me and keep up the great work!!! Hugs!” Barb Schwarz, when informed that RE:STYLE has 2 houses that will appear on HGTV’s National Open House
Before After “I have had the distinct pleasure of meeting Kathi and having her stage my home. She took an ordinary, datedhouse into one of a modern, fresh look. People who have seen the house have said that it didn't look like the same house.
“I am pleased to announce that we signed a sales contract on the house today. After 17 months on the market, we finally sold it. Judy said the buyers were impressed with the staging. Thanks for helping us get this done! We should have engaged you one year ago!” Lloyd J., Homeowner
“Wow…Wow…Wow…I am so, so, so proud of YOU!!!!!
Barb Schwarz, after seeing Before and After photos from RE:STYLE’s first vacant home staging project
Kathi was a pleasure to work with, and was very conscientious about sticking to my budget. She would always consult me before buying anything that she thought I would have concerns with.
We were in Florida during the renovation, and she served as project manager for us. She interviewed and foundbuilders, carpet cleaners, house cleaners, window washers. She selected the paint and carpeting that we had replaced, and she had exquisite taste.
Her staging was incredible. She did things that were simple, but took into account the look I was trying to achieve,and did things that I would never had thought of. The house is for sale, and I have high hopes that it will sell in short order.
If you are looking for a stager, contact Kathi. You won't be disappointed.”
Jan H., Homeowner
Whitmore Lake, MI
House SOLD! within 2 months of being staged, despite having been on the market, vacant, for 15 months prior to staging
Troy, MI 
House SOLD! to the 3rd person through (after being staged)
"I’m convinced now on the value of staging. I had a vacant house that had over 65 showings, but no offers. After having the house staged, I received an offer on it from the 3rd showing. Kathi’s ‘artist’s eye’ and marketing background, in addition to her staging training, makes all the difference in the world. I offer her service to all my clients now.”
Debbi D., Coldwell Banker Schweitzer, Ann Arbor, MI
“You should see the house!!! They moved the TV, painted, bought new light fixtures…Wow! The difference (your suggestions made) is unbelievable! Very dramatic, especially the family room and the dining room! Wait till you see…”
Christine T., RE/MAX Platinum, Hartland
“Thank you again for your wonderful work, stamina and professionalism! As I turned out the lights last night, I couldn’t help but admire, one more time, the life and beauty you helped to bring to 100 Underdown.” Shiela D., Realtor 
Luxury Home SOLD! for over $2 million in just 6 months
Ann Arbor, MI
“What can I say but a ‘thank you’ for your consultation. I really believe that the changes we made, based on your suggestion, were a big factor in making the home appealing in a dismal market. The house looked great, especially for being almost 13 years old. I know the new owners will appreciate a truly move-in condition home. I would highly recommend your services to anyone!"
Lori A., HomeownerBrighton, Michigan
“Since you staged my listing, the way the home shows is the difference between night and day! Being that the home was vacant and very dark, I wasn’t sure how much it would help without repainting the entire interior. But, wow! What a difference it made—the home now shows great!”
Randy M., The Michigan Group, Brighton, MI
“Kathi was a true professional in the way she interacted with us as the homeowners. Her ideas for laying out our home look great and make sense for every day living as well as for our feature on HGTV.”
Drew and Hilary Chorney, HomeownersAnn Arbor, MI House featured on HGTV’s “National Open House”
The pictures of the house look great! I’m especially impressed with the way Kathi made the blue countertops in the upstairs bathrooms seem like they made sense there.” Vicki C., Homeowner
Brighton, MI
House SOLD! in 62 days for 97.8% of list
“Kathi and RE:STYLE have helped many of our clients transform their homes into showplaces. We’ve found R:STYLE staged homes sell faster and for more money. Our sellers love working with Kathi.”
Todd B., LCAR 2006 Realtor of the Year, The Buckley Jolley Real Estate Team, Brighton, MI
“Kathi's staging skills are superior. But what I really like is how thoughtful and empathetic she is with my clients. She is careful to honor their possessions, and she has a nice way of being gentle yet persuasive all at the same time. I trust her implicitly to work with my clients, whether I'm present or not!"
Linda P., Keller WilliamsBrighton, MI
"After RE:STYLE staged my Pine Creek listing, I never again heard what had been a deal-breaking complaint--that the house was 'too cold.' The staging definitely influenced the sale of this house, and did so in a relatively short period of time. Kathi has demonstrated that she has the high taste level necessary to stage these upper-end listings. And she made it fun!"
Sheryl M., Coldwell Banker Schweitzer, South Lyon, MI
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