Teri B. Clark's Real Estate Books Including Home Staging and Private Mortgage Investing

I have helped a friend stage their home. They've moved back to England and are not here to be sure that things are moving along, so I've been in contact with their agent and such. I was rather dismayed at the photos that were taken and put on the web, so I've asked that they be changed. She was h...

As stagers, we look at homes going on the market. We figure out what should stay and what should be boxed up. We think like the "average" buyer and get the home ready to appeal to a wide variety of people. This is staging.There is a new trend, in the offing. It is called redesigning by some, but ...

Agricola Redesign in Cincinnati has started a class program called "Girl's Night Out Decorating Class." Essentially, she provides free monthly classes to women that are fun and informative on the topic of decorating. Women of all ages come to learn about the month's lesson. Perhaps it is on color...

There is a new law being considered: The North Carolina Home Tax. This tax will requite the home seller to pay 1% of the selling price of their home to the state. (If you want to learn more about this tax, go to http://www.itsabadidea.org/home/) Already in existence is $2 per $1000 in closing cos...

As I search through the news each day, I've run across something that I have found interesting: real estate columnists. People send in questions to their newspaper and they get answered by a columnist. As an agent, how difficult would it be to answer 3 to 4 questions a week? I think that this mig...

There is a column in the American Chronicle that I found interesting. It teaches buyers and sellers about the process of buying or selling their homes. This weeks class, lesson #9, gives them 8 questions to ask prospective agents. The article also says that these are the 8 questions that most age...

I read an article that says that a survey by the National Association of Realtors found that the most popular method of choosing a real estate agent was word of mouth. My first thought was, of course, and isn't that great. This article threw a different slant on the subject. It states that a reco...

I mentioned a friend's home the other day. His realtor had no photos of his home on the web site. He complained. Photos went up. Now I wonder if it was such a good idea!She had taken photos during her first walkthrough and those are the ones on the site. Not the ones after staging! Both cars are ...

I was reading an article found in a Michigan paper about the real estate market in Livingston. Apparently it is dropping and many agents are looking for good ways to distinguish themselves. One such agent has taken a course in home staging. And the paper said this about it: “home staging,” a rela...

My suspicion is that many of us have no idea what principles we use. We look at something and intuitively know what to do. Others, I'm sure, have an interior design background or have taken staging courses and can verbalize what they are doing. I'd love to hear the principles you use. This is a g...