Comments on: Home “Buyer Beware” http://columbusbestblog.com/real-estate/home-buyer-beware/ A blog about the best of Columbus & Central Ohio by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:14:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: MaureenMcCabe http://columbusbestblog.com/real-estate/home-buyer-beware/#comment-9069 MaureenMcCabe Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:13:05 +0000 http://columbusbestblog.com/blogs/home-buyer-beware/#comment-9069 Are you familiar with NAEBA? It's not the fist time they've used sensationalism / negativity to get attemtion. Thanks for the comment. Are you familiar with NAEBA? It’s not the fist time they’ve used sensationalism / negativity to get attemtion. Thanks for the comment.

]]> By: Rachel - Staged Makeovers http://columbusbestblog.com/real-estate/home-buyer-beware/#comment-9061 Rachel - Staged Makeovers Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:04:40 +0000 http://columbusbestblog.com/blogs/home-buyer-beware/#comment-9061 I'm upset by the NAEBA's report also. I think the survey was STAGED considering the participants were only members of NAEBA... as in buyer agents who do not frequently use staging services. Perhaps a broader group of participants could have given more realistic results. Any good stager (or professional business person) would not try to hide flaws, instead professional home stagers tell homeowners to fix the problem before even showing the home. Serious problems must be disclosed. Oh, I could go on and on about the flaws that I have uncovered in NAEBA's report. I’m upset by the NAEBA’s report also. I think the survey was STAGED considering the participants were only members of NAEBA… as in buyer agents who do not frequently use staging services. Perhaps a broader group of participants could have given more realistic results.

Any good stager (or professional business person) would not try to hide flaws, instead professional home stagers tell homeowners to fix the problem before even showing the home. Serious problems must be disclosed. Oh, I could go on and on about the flaws that I have uncovered in NAEBA’s report.

]]> By: MaureenMcCabe http://columbusbestblog.com/real-estate/home-buyer-beware/#comment-8303 MaureenMcCabe Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:15:13 +0000 http://columbusbestblog.com/blogs/home-buyer-beware/#comment-8303 No thank you Cindy for writing such an interesting article about staging. We do have NAEBA members in our market. They are respected members of our board of REALTORS® but they do take a different tack when it comes to consumerism. Sometimes rather humorous, often using fear of loss, so the rhetoric in the report did not surprise me. We really are not a big "staged home" market I do not think. We have stagers, a lot of what I see is "do it yourself, with your own stuff" staging rather than stagers with an inventory of accesories and furnishings (because of our price range?) or maybe in the higher prices there are stagers doing things I am unaware of. Builders stage their models of course. I would love to be a fly on the wall when an EBA is talking to their clients about staging at the big production builder's models here. No way I know of to be a fly on the wall though.... No thank you Cindy for writing such an interesting article about staging. We do have NAEBA members in our market. They are respected members of our board of REALTORS® but they do take a different tack when it comes to consumerism. Sometimes rather humorous, often using fear of loss, so the rhetoric in the report did not surprise me.

We really are not a big “staged home” market I do not think. We have stagers, a lot of what I see is “do it yourself, with your own stuff” staging rather than stagers with an inventory of accesories and furnishings (because of our price range?) or maybe in the higher prices there are stagers doing things I am unaware of. Builders stage their models of course. I would love to be a fly on the wall when an EBA is talking to their clients about staging at the big production builder’s models here. No way I know of to be a fly on the wall though….

]]> By: cindy@staged4more http://columbusbestblog.com/real-estate/home-buyer-beware/#comment-8264 cindy@staged4more Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:33:21 +0000 http://columbusbestblog.com/blogs/home-buyer-beware/#comment-8264 Hello, Thanks for the mention! I was pretty surprised myself to read people's comments and how some who are non-stagers are angry about the tactics of NAEBA. It was great however to hear about other real estate professionals such as home inspectors & realtors agree that staging does work. Cheers, Cindy Hello,

Thanks for the mention! I was pretty surprised myself to read people’s comments and how some who are non-stagers are angry about the tactics of NAEBA. It was great however to hear about other real estate professionals such as home inspectors & realtors agree that staging does work.

Cheers,
Cindy

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