So how do you get your buyers interest? How do you get your buyers to “click” on your house? The crucial part of the appearance of your home includes a well taken care of home with great landscaping, power-washed driveways and walkways, appealing paint colors and contrast colors, your lawn and a your home from the inside out to show a house in good repair – a place their they would invite their friends or family over to visit, and room for their kids to play. You have a one inch square to make an impression that will last.

The importance of strategic Curb Appeal cannot be underestimated, or skipped over, or your house will be too!  Call DC Redesign Real Estate Staging and Conceptual Design for a plan to update the exterior or interior of your home. We give you a sourcing information guide to get your home ready for sale. The plan provides you with specific information: paint colors, plant names and any lighting, patio furniture, and where to buy, or repairs that need to be done.  DC Redesign is now offering an introduction to Curb Appeal with prices starting at $200 for the front of your home and an additional $150 for each patio, side or backyard area. Each color change is $25.  715-815-3506

Conceptual Staging

DC Redesign is now offering Conceptual Staging Services! It is to broaden our ability and assist our clientele on a limited budget.  Conceptual Staging allows us to depict our suggested changes via a virtually staged or redesigned image.  This is especially useful for clients who would like to see how DC Redesign can maximize the effect of any budget whether it is for:

1.  Residential Staging

2.  Redesign for Living

3.  R.E. Agents to motivate their clients with the merits of a professional property presentation

4.  Builders who would like to show prospective buyers the true potential of their new homes

5.  Investors who would like to see the impact of renovations before they invest or rehab

6.  Businesses interested in making cosmetic changes to create a dynamic design impression

7.  Senior Care Facilities who endeavor to provide an aesthetically pleasing environment for their residents

8.  Curb Appeal for homeowners

DC Redesign and Home Staging is unlike many staging companies offering Conceptual Staging. We also offer free 8″x 10″ photos and have the option of providing you a slide show presentation of your listings that are conceptually staged. Please contact us for pricing.  714-815-3506

Create a win-win situation for you and your partner. According to the Small Business Administration, the contents of a business partnership agreement should include (a) the amount of equity invested by each partner, (b) type of business, (c) how profits and losses will be shared, (d) pay and compensation, and (e) distribution of assets if the business is dissolved.  Additionally, have your future partner and you create of list of wants, needs and dislikes in the business. Each should contribute something to the business.

Keep in mind these points:

1. Both must share the same vision, strategy for the business, and set up a clear focus that will meet the needs of both partners.

2. Capitalize on the strengths and skills of each partner: one may be good in marketing and the other sales and leadership.

3. Do not split ownership an equal 50/50.  There will be no conclusion to a future decision, so consider 49% to 51% split.

4. Meet monthly to discuss and share, review and provide thoughts, insights and constructive criticism for each other.

DC Redesign and Home Staging is located in Westminster, CA, and services all of Orange County CA as well as surrounding cities.  Create more freedom,  contentment and enthusiasm in your business by partnering with another business owner in your industry!  714-815-3506 or diane@dcredesign.com

The home improvements with the highest price increases to a home’s resale value is Updating the Kitchen ($2,850 price increase), followed by Painting the Outside of the Home ($1,815 price increase) and Home Staging ($1,780 price increase).

Home Staging is the second most valuable home improvement project to a seller when it comes to selling a home by ROI and third most valuable by price increase, according to surveyed Realtors. Additional analysis will be provided in the coming days on Home Staging. Please visit the HomeGain Real Estate Blog regularly for updates.

This is a great article! Read more at the above link for HomeGain Real Estate Blog.

DC Redesign and Home Staging is an Orange County CA Staging company for homeowners and Realtors’ vacant listings.

1. Concentrate on a smaller area – beach areas, area codes, etc.

2. Choose to stage vacant or occupied homes – think about your inventory

3. Pick a price range of homes – below $500k or over $500k

4. Market to an age group – young families, dual income, small children

5. Include the average wages earned – $100k and over

6. Include samples of your work for this demographic – carry a portfolio of your work and include testimonials

I don’t know about you but I’m having a little bit of trouble with this and would appreciate anyone’s comments on how they handle it while everyone struggles through this housing market. If you have any other ideas, please comment.  Thanks!

Diane Concialdi is lead design for DC Redesign located in Orange County, CA, and surrounding areas. Please contact me for any information you may need for home staging. I love vacant stagings and working with investors and builders.  Call 714-815-3506 or email diane@dcredesign.com

I went out this week-end with a Realtor friend of mine to visit the homes of families who just received a notice of foreclosure on their homes. Many were in denial – “oh, I’m just renting,” or “it’s being taken care of because my husband is a Realtor.”  We humans do not want to face the embarrassment of losing our homes. Listen up, you do have choices on how to handle your foreclosure.

If you’ve tried for a loan modification, and it’s not going too well, a short sale is the best thing. It’s better for your credit. A foreclosure stays on your public record for 10 years. If you do nothing your home will go to the banks or auctioned. Let my team help you. Contact me first. We will negotiate your loan with the bank, and handle all the paperwork. You also get to stay in your home (without making payments) while we negotiate the short sale.

Our services cost you nothing. Contact me, Diane Concialdi, 714-815-3506, for short sale information. Also, if you know of someone going through a foreclosure on their home, please give them my name. We buy with cash so the short sale process is faster. We all make mistakes, so don’t let embarrassment stand in your way:

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”  Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Diane Concialdi, consults with homeowners in foreclosure, and also home stages vacant listings. I service Orange County, CA, and the surrounding areas for your Real Estate needs.  Please call 714-815-3506 or email me at diane@dcredesign.com or diane@asocapital.com.

Meet with other Home Stagers in the Orange County area; join RESA – Real Estate Staging Association. We support all professional real estate stagers regardless of training, certifications, or designations.  Members have access to up-to-date information relative to the staging industry, including marketing support services. We are now considered a self regulated industry, meaning that every professional stager now has a voice to determine what happens in the industry!

When you affiliate yourself with a trade association you are able to contribute to your industry by helping create standards and ethical policies.  We welcome you to join our Orange County meeting!  Call Diane Concialdi, DC Redesign, 714-815-3506.  Get in on the next meeting (soon to be scheduled)!