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Testimonials
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"I got a Staging job today thanks to the StagedHomes website! My new client had read an article in USAA magazine (a military mag) about selling homes and they mentioned Staging. She went to the StagedHomes website and found me here in this little desert town of Yuma, Ariz.
That`s proof again that the StagedHomes website is working well for ASPs!
Thanks for all you do Barb!!"
-Teri Short, ASP |
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"Staging speeds up sales in a sluggish market, and can bump up prices 2 percent
to 10 percent in a moderate market."
-Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2004 |
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"I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for all your knowledge, wisdom, and
energy. You gave me a needed jolt or bolt of lightning.
I hate calling on
canceled, expired, and FSBO`s but I know that is the only way to REALLY grow my
business. With your class I am now ready to "go get `em!" and get that property
Listed/Staged and SOLD.
I look forward to keeping in touch with
you."
-John Baer, ASP |
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"I have to tell you how much I enjoyed your company and expertise in your class
this week. You are so full of excitement, ideas and certainly energy! Your 36
years of staging and decorating is very inspiring to me and that is why you are
such a success at what you do. Congratulations! I am now an ASP thanks to you. I
will be at your convention at Navy Pier in June, I can`t wait to see that. I
look forward to bettering myself as well as my clients homes. Thanks again for a
great Class!"
-Barbara Svoboda-Steinmetz, GRI, ASP |
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"In August 2006 I had a listing Staged and received a contract on in 4 days! The
same thing happened again in January 2007. The client got my name from the
StagedHomes.com website. I listed his house 2-1-07. I got a contract on it in 13
days and we go to closing 2-28-07. (average days on the market here in SC is
120!) These listings came solely because I am an ASP and offering something here
in SC that no-one else does!
I look forward to many more successful
closings in my real estate career!"
-Robin Larsen, ASP, M.Ed. |
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"I wanted to pass on some details about a particular Staging class done in the
Houston area. The Realtor called yesterday so excited that he seemed nervous! He
said after the class Staged his client`s house, it was marketed and they had 6
offers in less than 3 weeks! He was ecstatic! He now has another client that he
has suggested staging to get top dollar and he wants to know if he can use me on
future listing. I LOVE THIS BUSINESS!!!!!! And I love you as well."
-Judy |
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"I have been corresponding with Grace, the listing agent for the house we staged
on Graymar up here in Raleigh. Well good news! The house is going under contract
tomorrow - as soon as the sellers sign it in the morning! It went on the market
October 13th. We staged December 13th and it contracts December 27th. Even in
this hard-to-sell time of the year, it sold!!!"
-Karen Renolds |
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"I recently took the staging class in Alexandria, Va. I learned so much that I
soon Staged my first home. It was under contract within 3 days! My seller was so
excited. I just wanted to thank you again for the support."
-Chanda
Macias, REALTOR |
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"8 days after Staging we had about 4 or 5 more showings and we got two offers
and the house is sold firm now.
Prior to Staging, the house was on the
market for 17 days and more than 20 showings but no offers.
I can
honestly say that Staging did help sell the house, and I will definitely get an
ASP stager to do all my future listings from now on. Thank you and your Staging
class for a job well done."
-Yasser Abed, ASP, RE/MAX Sales
Representative, Ottawa, ON |
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"My clients are an amazing older couple. They looked up Staging online, and of
course were directed to the StagedHomes.com website. They found me, and went to
our website and made contact.
Upon my visit, we went through the house,
room by room, (it was a mess - they will admit) and I gave them a TO-DO
list.
I gave them suggestions that would help the house to sell faster
and for top dollar. I had my broker and another agent over to see the house
before, and they said that if the house sold the way it was, it would bring in
about $375,000.
My clients needed more money (for retirement) so they
went to work. They did a lot of the work themselves - landscaping, cleaning,
getting rid of all of the clutter. They hired a painter and someone to re-finish
the hardwood floors. About 2 months later (we first met in March and wanted to
get it ready to go on the market by May) we listed it - for $425,000. 5 days
later we got our offer and sold it for $418,000.
My clients were
extremely happy and so were the buyers. The home looks beautiful. I am proud to
say it was my first Staging job and I Stage every home I list now. I have before
and after pics. We used only their furniture and some flowers and plants from
the garden. Wow."
-Jodi Strober, REALTOR, ABR, ASP Chalfont, PA |
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"This was my first listing after completing my ASP Realtor Course. I know for a
fact that the ASP Designation helped me get the listing.
I made many
suggestions to my clients I even picked out the paint color for one of the
rooms.
They`ve done everything I suggested and just a short 20 days later
(and two open houses which both produced offers) they accepted the best
offer.
This was definitely an amazing experience both for myself and my
sellers. They moved to Nebraska and when viewing homes had an even greater
appreciation for staged homes. They have told me on many occasions how much they
look forward to moving into their new home and staging it.
I am so proud
to be an ASP Realtor. I know it`s the only thing that sets me apart from the
rest. Going on listing presentations with the before and after pictures is great
and incredibly easy to turn customers into clients."
-Emma Pawlik
ASP Realtor Coldwell Banker Primus/South Elgin |
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"This home was list ed by another agent, cluttered with cast-offs the sellers
didn`t want to move, and dirty!
I believe it had few showings because the
other agent took interior photos and posted them in that condition...I took the
listing, got the junk out, cleaned, and invested $200 in little items (I even
Staged the pantry and fridge!)
I received a contract in 14 days...the
buyer agent told me they had looked at many homes and mine took the cake it was
so cute! We took four thousand less than the list price, but in this market
where you are seeing thousands & thousands in concessions and low-ball
offers, this was definitely a success!"
-Cindy Alderton, REALTOR ABR
ASP Frederick, MD |
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"After Staging, the home was in absolute pristine shape. Not a spot needed
caulking. It was bright, open, not cluttered and Staged to show all the best
possibilities of the home, including the basement.
In a market that was
just stalled and a neighborhood of 750000 prices, this home sold for 950000 in
less than two weeks!"
-Valli Morano, ASP Realtor-Associate and
Homeowner Middletown, NJ |
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" . . . While prospecting one late afternoon in the west end community of Laurel Lakes, I called on the "For Sale By Owner" sign of an owner of a 1st floor condo. Even after I explained the benefits of working with a professional Realtor, he was confident he could sell his home himself. It was towards the end of our conversation, I introduced the SMARTMOVE program. He was still adamant about not needing my services, however, he agreed to at least take my name and phone number.
A few weeks past -- then one day, I got the phone call from him; he wanted to meet me. So, that same night, I went on my listing presentation. He was very intrigued with my approach to selling real estate (pricing + staging + unique marketing plan) he agreed to employ my services and in less than 20 days, his condo was SOLD! [MLS#2722787]
I`m writing this letter to give thanks to a few VERY important people in my
life and real estate career:
First, a special thanks goes to Mr. Gragnani, my managing broker at the Innsbrook sales office. It is your hours of coaching and direction that enable me to deliver the results, my client(s) so desperately seek.
Second, I would like to thank Barb Schwarz, the Creator of Home Staging, after receiving my Accredited Staging Professional designation from your training program (based solely on your principles and years of hands-on experience) my creativity to shaping a home to appeal to the home buyer(s) mass, knows no end!
Also, a very special thanks goes to the SMARTMOVE program for giving me thetool to break down part of my seller`s resistance to realtor representation.
Because of ya`ll (coupled with my desire to achieve total customer satisfaction) I was able to help someone who thought he did not need my help.
I love this business!"
- Lisa Klutz
REALTOR, ASP, GRI
Glen Allen, VA
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"I have to say that I have e-mailed SEVERAL of the support staff in the last week and each one has gotten me an answer in a very short time.
This company is the greatest for assuring that each ASP is successful and I have everything needed to grow my business.
I am soooo happy to have made the choice to take the ASP course and to be doing what I really love doing.
Thank you to Barb and the wonderful staff you have working with you and for me!"
Kim Trudo |
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"Thanks for the heads up on (new features in the ASP Directory)! I actually hadn`t checked it in the last
couple weeks, but that is awesome news! I do know that my last 4 calls were
all Stagedhomes.com leads, so people are looking!"
Thanks again for all your hard work!
Pamela Cooke, ASP
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- Megan Ossinger, ASP, IAHSP |
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| "Thanks very much for your message. I do have all of my Certificates, ASP and IAHSP, as well as the apron and the Sherwin Williams card, which I have used – and picked up my paint color wheel, a wonderful tool. I also ordered THE Staging Caddy, what a joy to use.
I began using it with my Senior Move Management Business. I wheel in with that, and my very sturdy, collapsible, handled folding table from Home Depot (thanks to all of the big store marketing ideas from class), a smile and my professionalism, and my clients are immediately put at ease. They know I am organized and ready to begin. That case is the magic wand!
Thanks so much for your great class. It was wonderful for the skills it taught for Staging, but I do believe that the stellar strength, even beyond the career specific skills, are the business, organizational, and life skills. I found your team approach, with the video of Barbara speaking and your presentations, to be the perfect pairing. The soul and ethics at the center of your business were immediately obvious.
As business women and men who are entering into people’s homes and their private domains, it is vitally important that every aspect of our companies exude these qualities. There is no mistaking the strong moral center to all that you all do – as well as the passionate belief in the ability and goodness of all of the lives that you touch.
Thank you, for running a class where members felt valued, their questions respected, and our fears of jumping into the business world calmed. So many people said, “I wished I had taken this class as I was getting started.” Lucky me, I did! Thank you for all of the great skills you so seamlessly taught us, for the materials that you gave us and inspired us to use with such specific, reassuring directions, and for the knowledge that as ASP’s and members of IAHSP, we always have a place to turn for camaraderie and guidance.
Almost forgot, even with my fledgling web presence ( that I am diligently working on between clients and having just gotten my real estate license and SRES), I received a call from the ASP site from a daughter coming in from out of town to try to help her mother get her house sold. One quick phone call, with a plea to come help her. Wow!
Thanks so much for checking back with me.
Most sincerely,
Susan Devaney, ASP
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"Dear Barb,
Your Home Staging Course is really 4 training programs rolled into one - Staging, sales, entrepreneurial attitude and behavior psychology - and presented in an entertaining show."
- Helane Royce, ASP Realtor
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