Free Shred Day in Williamson County
I’m in the middle of working with a client who had a lot of papers. These are papers from deceased relatives that are not longer needed. After we’d sorted and bagged/boxed up all of them, we had to decide what do with them.
Pre-Listing Home Inspections – keep it sold after the sale
I’ve talked on my personal blog about pre-listing home inspections before, but I think this is such an important subject that unfortunately doesn’t get the attention it deserves when a house gets listed. I feel so strongly about it that I’d rather someone had the inspection and fixed the issues found in the inspection than have me […]
procrastination vs. pajama casual
It’s interesting that the busier I get, the more I’ll get done. Then, when I’ve got some down time, like this week, I end up putting off things that really should get done. I was out of town for 5 days and didn’t schedule anything the first half of this week to catch up with […]
stealing website content – not cool
I’m reading blogs on Active Rain this weekend while I’m out of town visiting my family, and come across a blogger who was furious about having some of her web content lifted and used without permission by another blogger. She mentioned a website called Copyscape where you can go and check to see if your […]
what to do when dead plants in urns just aren’t working for me
So I’m doing a staging at a vacant house last fall and the client had left two really nice urns on the front entry. Unfortunately, she left two very dead plants in them as well. The realtor had scheduled a realtor tour that afternoon and I’d stopped by to do some fluffing up of stuff […]
How to keep a good subcontractor – treat ’em right – what goes around, comes around
Tomorrow morning I’m meeting my painter at a new client’s house, and then I’m off to the granite yard to look at some remnant pieces to glam up a client’s kitchen. My painter, Donnie, is a great guy and has gone out of his way for me so many times to help out on jobs, […]
Why I really like working with some agents, and why I don’t like working with others.
Oh, agents . . . can’t live with them, can’t live without them. I have some agents I just love working with. Here’s why: they show up at the house and work with you and the home-owner send me the comps I request, and give me clear ideas about who their target market is and […]
the organizer box
My friend, and fellow organizer, Paige McClain Ramsey, recently created a cool new tool for anyone with a college bound kid. It’s called McClain’s College-Bound Organizer TM. It’s a lightweight and portable organizing box to keep up with all of the paperwork and information during the college search. Includes a user guide and a folder […]
19th century William Morris quote – still works for me!
I was reading Wallpaper magazine recently – it’s a great way to get my fix of cool, hip “stuff” that I’d never buy since I have no room nor need for any more “stuff”. There was a page highlighting neat things for a hallway and embedded in one of the sections was a quote by […]
Window treatments – on the cheap.
This may have been covered in the past but the feedback I had from some other stagers about some recent window treatments I did encouraged me to blog on this. I had some windows in a room that needed some accents so I used tension rods and placemats. The placemats I got at Target on […]
