Providing Services to Prepare the Home for Sale

Now who could pass up a model train set up in a back yard?   Hundreds of feet of track, dozens of buildings and all the towns people to go with it.

Take a tour of the set up with me and see how similar it is to staging.

Bloomfield Twp Railway Garden Tour  This caught my attention in the local free newspaper that delivered to all residences in many cities.  I love it for a quick review of what's going on.

My husband and I thought it was such an interesting thing to do, on a July (hot & muggy) Sunday morning, and we could walk to it and enjoy a few minutes.

To our surprise the few minutes turned into about an hour or more.

It similar to  going into a Sunday Realtor Open House thinking that you'll have a quick walk through and then actually looking through every room, crook and cranny that it has.

The Dunn family:  Sharron, Bob two sons, daughter in laws and grandkids were all participating in this event.

The Dunn family took days and weeks to prepare for the annual event.  Very Similar to what sellers have to do to prepare for their day in the sun. 

The Dunn family  checks for winter damage to the tracks and landscaping. 

Stage-Show-Sell, LLC gives the home street appeal.

They make sure that the tiniest details are taken care of.  The tracks work, the trains work, the emergency helicopters are in place (you have to look at the photos to find them). The bathing pond is clean and fresh and all the models and show ready.

Stage-Show-Sell, LLC  makes sure the windows are clean, outdated light fixtures replaced and the house clean and fresh and furniture shows off the rooms to their best use.

We have a lot in common. Grab a cup of coffee and  Check the Photos of Dunn's Diversion 

  Is it that much different that what Stage-Show-Sell, LLC does?  Click here to see

MEDIA ALERT

For Immediate Release            Contact: Melody Herr
                                         Ph: 248.722.4955
                                                                       Email: melody@sellingimpressions.com
What:    CHARITY STAGED HOME EVENT

Who:    The Real Estate Staging Association Southeastern Michigan Chapter  (RESA-SEM) and Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County

When:      Friday, April 24th  Preview Night for Realtors and Press from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
        Sunday, April 26th  Public Open House from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Where:    159 Highland                                                     Clawson, Michigan

Presented by:  RESA Southeastern Michigan Chapter (RESA-SEM) with support from:

Fowler Real Estate

Dynamic Flowers

Cort Furniture

Echo Appraisal

Graebel Michigan

               
Participating Stagers:     Melody Herr, President of RESA-Michigan, owner of Selling Impressions, LLC
Jennifer Cohol, Selling Impressions
Deborah Chene, owner of Staging Impressions
Marianne Sweet, owner of Home Sweet Home Staging, LLC
Virginia Tatseos, owner of Stage-Show-Sell
Jill Neugebauer, Selling Impressions
Sandy Rochette  

Cost:       $5.00 donation which includes admission to the open house and classic car display, along with a chance to win a complimentary Home Staging consultation.

Information:
The RESA Southeastern Michigan Chapter (RESA-SEM) is proud to announce that it is sponsoring a charity Home Staging event to be held April 24th and April 26th. This event will give Realtors and Michigan residents a chance to see how Home Staging can transform a home.  The RESA members will be staging a vacant house in Clawson, Michigan.  Realtors will be able to tour the house on Friday, April 24th.  The house will be open for public viewing Sunday, April 26th.  Participating Home Stagers will be on hand to answer questions, give advice and offer complimentary Home Staging Consultations to the winners of the raffle.  There will also be classic Detroit cars on display. All donations as well as proceeds from a lemonade stand will be donated to Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County.






Michigan stagers and RESA aren't just staging homes; they are staging the community they live in too. Several RESA-SEM members are also participating in the Habitat Women Build May 12th-16th.

If you want more information on this exciting project, contact RESA - Michigan State President, Melody Herr of Selling Impressions at Melody@sellingimpressions.com.  For more information on Habitat for Humanity, call Brad Irwin at (248) 338-1843.

Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the face of the earth by building adequate and basic housing. Since its establishment in 1976, Habitat for Humanity and its partners have built more than 300,000 homes for 1 million people in 100 nations. Habitat for Humanity built its first home in Oakland County in 1994. Since then, Habitat for Humanity’s Oakland County affiliate and more than 20,000 donors, sponsors, and volunteers have built safe, decent, affordable housing for more than 100 families. Habitat for Humanity presently focuses its work on building and rehabilitating homes in Oakland County neighborhoods suffering the effects of the economic recession. To learn more, visit habitatoakland.org.   




RESA South-Eastern Michigan Chapter: 33228 W. 12 Mile Road #186 c/o Melody Herr  Farmington Hills MI 48334
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Spring has sprung for at least a few days in Michigan and our gradson had a few days off of school.  He loves being outside and loves the zoo.  This was such a perfect day for a visit.

Thining he might get a little bored, silly me, I gave him the camera to document our day.

Below and the vidoes he took.  We also created a video from all the photos.  We had fun ----he had fun---- and he learned how to post to youtube and create movies.   Couldn't have been a better day.

This bear was really annoyed with the workmen. The polar bear exhibit is one of the best in the country. We walk thru a tube and the bears swim all around us.

We took a couple hundred photos and they are the ones we thought the best. The seals are in the same exhibit with the Polar Bears

The snow fox kept us busy for at lest 20 minutes. They were so frisky.

Stage-Show-Sell, offers affordable home orchestrations services 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, the crews and our own rental furniture and accessories to prepare many homes.

What so special about March 12, 1945?

Elaine Virgina Hemmingsen was brought into this world

Today March 12, 2009 we, my husband and myself, celebratred my birthday.

We spent the afternoon at the Motor City Casino in Detroit.  The experience re=affirmed my believe that I'll never get rich gambling.  I'll make my living helping the families of those who have passed away.

We had dinner at Bistro Bordeau  in Auburn Hills.  This, to me, is the best restaurant in the country.  I've traveled the country and the world and to me this is the finest food at the most affordable price.

The atmosphere is so pleasant, the food is wonderful and the staff goes out of their way to make the meal wonderful.

Kipp Bordeau is the owner and cook and his wife will often be seen escorting diners to their table.

Bisto Bordeau seems to be fine in this economy.  While others are closing around us BB is still there.

Support this restaurant if you live or are visiting in this area.

Happy Birthday to me.  The best in a long time

Very serious question to ask your Doctor, Denitst and every professional that you deal with.

This is a question for the financial health of us all.

Ask them what kind of car are they driving.  Are they driving a US product.

I asked my doctor this week and he was very proud to say he drove a Lincoln.   He will continue to drive american cars because he knows where his bread is buttered.   The autobile industry has had, in the past, the best insurance. 

My CPA drives a US product.

Tomorrow I'll ask my dentist.  I have no problems asking anyone who gets my business.

When GM is talking about bankrupcy that effects ALL OF US and not just Michigan.

For years and years I've backed up my data.  I've backed up to floppy drives (what a silly name), to zip drives, then to CD and then DVD.

I want my data protected.  A DVD in my office and a back up DVD in the safe in the basement.  All my files from 15 years of Real Estate and personal records have been backed up this way.

Amazed at learning that a regular DVD is only good for 2-5 years I've backed them up again to Gold DVD that are good for 100 years.  These I purchased from Fear Not Computers.  I always gave copies of the closing documents to my clients on DVD or CD so they would ALWAYS have a copy around.  

How many of you are relying on DVDs to back up your photos, papers and emails ( yes every email from my clients) not knowing that the life span is so short?

I take hundreds of photos for every project that I'm now Orchestrating.  There are pictures of the before, during and after.   The clients copy will go on a Gold DVD and my computer will now get backed up electronically every day.

P.S.  I'm so greatful the Fear Not Compters (owned by my son) keeps me up to date on security and back up news and information.

What do all these occupations have in common with October and a crack house?

Yesterday about 30 of us met to tear down a house in Detroit.

This is the third weekend for this house and the only one that I participated in.

The first weekend (all volunteers) the took off the roof and top structure.

Last week they collapsed the house

This weekend we tore our the remaining sectons and disposed of everything that we could.

They day started about 8:30 with strong men smashing and tearing out the house.

Wish I had their strength and energy.

My job was to get as much into organized piles for disposing.

I know many of the workers from Motor City Connect    Read more blogs and find out about this organization

For information on the Blight Busters click on the photo below.

View all my photos

View Other participants photos

We formed teams while working with volunteers that we never met before.

The men piled the brick on the edge of the "house" and I would pitch them in a pile for reclamation.

This was hard dirty work. Will I do it again?    You bet.

One more house down and many more to go.

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.

WCR Birmingham-Bloomfield

Proudly Presents

S.W.A.T. for REALTORS  (this is not just for Realtors)

Tuesday, October 14th

11 am to 1 pm

Networking from 11 to 11:30

Lunch from 11:30 to Noon

Workshop from Noon to 1:00

The Iroquois Club

43248 Woodward Avenue

Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302

Located Next to The Moose Preserve

Join us for an interactive experience provided by   SWAT Team Members teaching and demonstrating techniques to protect yourself in real world situations.

You'll have an opportunity to practice these techniques and leave feeling confident and prepared.

WCR Members $20                        Non-WCR Members $30

Lunch will be provided

*New Members and Members of Western, Wayne, Oakland and Detroit Chapters eat free when membership is transferred to Birmingham-Bloomfield Chapter

RSVP to Susie Moceri by October 10^th

Limited Seating, Reserve Today!

Direct (248)505-4527                    Email Susie@Moceri.com

If you would like more information on the benefits of

becoming a Member of the Women's Council of REALTORS

Birmingham-Bloomfield Chapter please contact

Julia Halpin, VP of Membership

Direct (248)722-4071

www.WCRBirminghamBloomfield.com

Get S.W.A.T smart

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

The conference was a wonderful success.  Our speakers were the best in the industry.

Debbie Battersbywas great motivational speaker.  We learned how to break the barriers that stop us from doing what we want to do.  Half way thru the session we were chopping boards with our bare hands.

The Internet Savvy Consumer was presented by Amy Chorew.  Absolutely the best.   Luckily for me she's always available with advice and support right here on active rain. We learned so much about cameras, post Real Estate Tours on the web, you tube and photo story just to name a few.  You want more information?? Hire her.  She's great.

Ted Soltys   with The Family Love Letter gave us so much good information on how we can help our families and clients prepare for what's going to happened to us all.  There are only two things in life and are guaranteed   Death and Taxes.   He didn't help with taxes and did show us how we and our clients can prepare for death.

Terry Watson came to us straight from Califoria's conferences.  He had us glued to our seats with all the information that he gave us. PMN is our newest Real Estate designation with WCR.  Not only did he fill is in on our courses he entertained us

We had time for networking, playing and learning.  Very good conference

The conference was held at the fantastic Eaglewood Resort in Itasca, Il.