Virginia Tatseos

On Friday's my email gets tons of notices from realtors with price reductions.

This house was reduced $30,000 and it's now up for rent too.

Why reduce when it can be made very nice?

Why show photos like this on the MLS?

Why don't sellers call us first?

Why oh Why of Why do we have these Friday's price reduction?

HomeGain report says the return on investment is 374% on staging. Isn't it cheaper to stage?

Toilet seat up and burned out light bulb. This bathroom can be staged with minimum investment that will help it sell.

I have a fear of dogs and that looks like a clown near the TV. Neither of these need to be in the MLS photo. With minimal staging the room can be made to look great in the buyers eyes

Most buyers won't be able to picture themselves in this dining room. With minimal staging the room can be made to look great in the BUYERS eyes.

It's PINK. Most buyers will be turned off by a pink Living Room. Stage it to sell. Minimal costs for staging

Oh my, clutter. De-cluttering a home is the most inexpensive ways of staging a room.

Example of simplify

Stage-Show-Sell, offers affordable home staging solutions in the Birmingham – Bloomfield and surrounding areas in getting your home ready for the market. We service both home sellers and realtors. We have the experience, our own rental furniture and accessories to stage many homes

We are know what The Circle Principle is: What goes around comes around

The Women's Council of Realtors magazine, Connections, has a great article in it regarding adding home stagers to your professional network.

Superbly written and I hope all WCR members copy it and send it to your Realtors in your area.

It puts together all the things that we have been saying regarding staging. Everyone, seller - agent-stager and buyer, is a winner when the home is staged.

What surprised me was the HomeGain's Home sale Maximizer Survery with 2,000 agents.

Staging provides a 349% return on investment

According to Maritz Research 63% of the buyers will pay more for homes that are move-in-ready.

If you haven't read it yet please read it. Get a copy from a local WCR member.

Happy Staging and Happy Selling to you all

WCR Article can be found here.

Reprinted with permission, Women's Council of REALTORS®."

Home Gain Report can be found here

Stage-Show-Sell, offers affordable home staging solutions in the Birmingham – Bloomfield and surrounding areas in getting your home ready for the market. We service both home sellers and realtors. We have the experience, our own rental furniture and accessories to stage many homes

Yesterday while waiting for the rain storms to dispate I played on AR, AGAIN

http://activerain.com/blogsview/644623/Eco-Living-Style-On

Julia game me some ideas that I would share.

My yard has rocks, stones, pebbles and gravel. LOTS

I thought that I would play with Eco friendly candle holders.

I think this is going to be a great project with my grand daughter. X-mas gifts for teachers?

Fisher Body Craftsman Guild - 2008 reunion

The General Motors Craftsman's Guild, an auto design competition, was sponsored by the Fisher Body Division of General Motors. The original competition was to build Coaches based on the Fisher Body Emblem.

Clicking on the below image opens up a photo album containing all the pictures from the event

The competition later encouraged teenagers to build scale models of their dream cars.

Clicking on the below image opens up a photo album containing all the pictures from the event

The competition for Dream Cars was from the late 1930's thru 1968 and it provided thousands of scholarships to the winners. My husband, Paul Tatseos, won three times on different levels of the competition giving him a good start on his education at the Art Center College of Design in California. He went on to work at General Motors Design Staff, in Warren Michigan, as did many of the other competitors. Other winners went to other auto companies, industrial design, engineering, medicine and many other careers.

August 2008 is the 100^th anniversary of Fisher Body and a re-union of the winners and their cars was put together at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Approx 60 winners, many who have never met before, brought their cars to the museum for public showings.

The turnout was far more than I expected. Hundreds of people, over the weekend, viewed the cars and talked to their creators.

Clicking on the below image opens up a photo album containing all the pictures from the event

One young man was so enthralled with the designs that he was allowed to hold my husbands cars.

His father said You and Paul really made all the difference for my sons experience there. By the end of the day he was totally comfortable going up and talking to some of the guys about the models they built and what they did later in their life. He's still a little young to appreciate what the men in that room have done but I'm not and I would love it if you passed on to Paul that as soon as we got home we went down in the basement and pulled out a 5 pound bag of clay and started to sculpt a "Dream Car". You both made a very memorable day for a wide eyed little boy and these pictures are going to send him over the top.

I would like for all of those interested to know that there are still young people out there who want to learn what only they can teach them. In my profession I work very hard to keep the tradition of "Craftsman and Apprentice" alive and I hope to see some of that carry on here. Even in financially challenging times the one thing you can't afford not to have is creativity. Hopefully we can even spark an interest to bring the contest back to life for some kids in the future.

Thanks again

jimi

John L. Jacobus wrote the definitive book about the Guild and was responsible was putting together this show. We all want to thank him. For more information about John and The Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild see John's Website

The Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild Exhibition Catalogue can be purchased from the museum

The night before the show members gathered to share stories and memorbilia that was not in the show.

Clicking on the below image opens up a photo album containing all the pictures from the event

Great Article of the 100th Anniversary of GM

Harry Bentley Bradley Blog and show

These feet are made for walking and that's what I'm doing.

The reason for our trip to DC was, http://activerain.com/blogsview/523831/Birmingham-Bloomfield-winners,and my husband and I turned it into a weeklong historical tour of DC and Virginia.

I haven't been able to take long walks for many years. In Oct., when I broke my foot, my foot has been in an air cast or surgical shoe lasting 6 ½ months.

That was earlier post.

Enjoy some of the photos of DC.

Lincoln Memorial

Washington Monument

World WarII Memorial

World War II Memorial

Once a year the police from all over the country meet to honour the police who were killed in action.

Museum Photos

This looks like Donald Duck to me

Face only a monther could love

This is art

Or is it?

looks like clothes hangers to me

This is all of DC

The next posts will be on the other 5 days of walking.

My Thanks to Dr Tad Sprunger in Troy Michigan for giving me my walk back :-)