Winners to Be Announced in Las Vegas at the Industry’s Yearly Convention February 1, 2012
Markham, ON – December 5, 2011 Monica Stanciu of Staged 2 Sell Solutions Inc. is named as a finalist in the Real Estate Staging Association™ (RESA®) Home Staging Industry Award™ in the Professional Stager of the Year category. Industry professionals from all over North America submitted for consideration for the industry’s most prestigious awards.
The RESA® Home Staging Industry Awards™ are the most prestigious awards in the home staging industry. Home Staging professionals from all across North America compete. RESA® will recognize professional stagers in different regions of North America and each of those winners will compete for the overall awarding of the RESA® Professional Stager of the Year™ and the RESA Rookie Stager of the Year™. RESA® also recognizes a Product or Service of the Year™, a REALTOR® of the Year™, Spouse of the Year™, and Best Occupied Staging in both the United States and Canada.
“RESA® congratulates and recognizes each person for their contributions to our industry. Our Industry Awards are a wonderful way to give back to the staging industry as a whole and to recognize some amazing people” said, Shell Brodnax, President/CEO of RESA.
“I am thrilled to be a finalist in this category, I am blessed to be able to help my clients and it is very rewarding when others notice. Sometimes we are so focused on what's in front of us and we forget to look at the road behind us, to see how far we have come.“ says Monica Stanciu, President of Staged 2 Sell Solutions Inc.
The finalists will be judged by a panel of industry professionals and the winners will be announced at the RESA Home Staging International Convention, February 1, 2012 in Las Vegas.
For more information regarding Real Estate Staging, please visit www.RealEstateStagingAssociation.com or www.RESAConvention.com or call 888-201-8687
For more information on Monica Stanciu of Staged 2 sell Solutions Inc. visit www.staged2sell.ca, or call 416.912.6734
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When I get a call to do a staging consultation I ask the standard questions: how big is the property, location, number of bedrooms, finished basement or not, etc... the usual. But no matter how detailed this information can be, until I see the property in person, the property is just an address and a consultation time in my Blackberry.
Then the connection happens: I "meet" the property, the Real Estate Agent, then the homeowners who let me go in every room and open their closets:). This is when I feel I become a member of the "selling team": the agent, the homeowners and the staging consultant. It happened when I "met" the 26 Foxwood Rd., Thornhill Woods.
This property was a stager's dream: sparkling clean, great rooms, plenty of original art and some great antique pieces. The living room needed some furniture as it was almost empty and the family room needed an update. These are the only rooms where we brought rental furniture, in rest we just borrowed some pieces from other rooms and some of the existing furniture went in the basement, where we created a Rec Room. The homeowners were open to my suggestions and did their homework: pack and store the China Cabinet and the hutch from the Dining Room, lots of packing and storing, moved and stored the furniture from the family room...
There is a challenge in each staging project. Here I wanted to use as much of the homeowners' original classic art and antique pieces, but I needed to make the property appealing for the buyer's demographic, average age: 38. We had to stay very formal in the Living/Dining Room as we used the existing altique pieces in the dining area, but we went a bit more contemporary in the family room. We brought in some mirrors, art, coordinated accessories for the entire house and the end result is shown in the link below.
Were we successful?
www.26foxwood.com
This is the virtual tour provided by my agent partner, Arsen Gullesserian. I will post the Before pictures in my next entry.
Staged 2 Sell Solutions Inc. staged this cute lived -in property in Toronto. Few days later and a bidding war, the property sold $121,200.00 over-asking!!!
We just brought in few accessories and voila...this is the transformation on a very small budget.
Please click on the Before and After link:
Cedarbank, Toronto
Here are the listing photos:
Cedarbank, Toronto
Now, this is the highest over asking we got so far, couldn't resist not share it with you.
We keep hearing from our clients or Realtors that in a hot Real Estate market they do not need to stage their properties, as they sell fast anyway... getting more than 120K over asking is a proof that staging works in any type of market.