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I was talking to a potential client yesterday and one of the questions that I asked her was “Is your web presence staged forward?” The answer that I received from her was what I expected though I actually did not expect for her to be quite so frank. She knew that her web presence was [...]

Back in October 2008, I had an inspiration to create a Real Estate Industry based website called Positive Real Estate Professionals . The site was originally built to be able to combat the negative media and their attacks against us as a whole. Since that time, my business partner and I decided to take the site from a single user platform to a multi user platform and develop it into a Real Estate Network. On April 1, 2009, we launched the network platform and began accepting new members. The membership request is not a long process. Once you fill out the form, we basically verify you are who you say you are and work for who you say you do. Once that is verified, we then send you a recurring invoice for $100 and this covers your 12 month membership. The invoice will then be sent again prior to your expiration of the first year.

Membership is restricted to professionals in the Real Estate industry. This includes but not limited to Realtors, Brokers, Loan officers, Lenders, Lead Providers, stagers, title companies, builders, Real Estate Attorneys, re molders, escrow agents, Home Owners Insurance Companies, and more. As long as you are connectted to the Real Estate industry, we are interested in you.

The members of this site will be able to have their own blog site. For an example, you can look at Oregon Real Estate Queen or FHA/USDA/VA and Conventional Mortgage Loan News or Sandy Noll… Real Estate & More for examples of the way the pages set up. We also have forms like a Relocation Form, Property Watch, Target Interest Rate, Comparative Market Analysis, BPO Request Form, Title Order Form – Purchase, Title Order Form – Refinance, and a FHA Short Refi form. We have more forms that will be available, but these are just the tip of the iceberg and can appear on your site as a page or we can link them up. Either way, there is never a need for your readers to leave your page to fill anything out. On top of this, if you are a Realtor, we can connect a MLS property search onto your site so your readers can also search properties without leaving. All of these features, while able to connect Real Estate Industry professionals to one another, are geared to make the visitors / readers’ experience while on your site as streamlined and informative as possible.

In the housing industry, staging a home is important in selling a home quickly. Most people do not consider this and try to go it alone. The problem with that is they are left with several problems. One of the most notable of those problems is usually the indoor lighting. This is a major issue when showing a home in the evenings or on a cloudy or overcast day. I have seen many homes go unsold due to the poor indoor lighting or even lack of fixtures throughout the home.

Many people also forget about the home furnishings and decor that they have in the home. Instead of packing some of this up, they leave the clutter all about the home. The problem with this is that a potential buyer typically cannot see themselves in your house if your stuff is scattered about it. De-cluttering is on or the most important portions of staging a home for sale or resale. This is something that a home stager takes into consideration when first viewing your home. I know that when I went to sale my homes I had to get it out of my mind that this was my home that I am selling and that it is a house that I need to sell.

When you are getting a home ready for sell, you need to go through the house and check the bulbs in all of lamps, especially any of the desk lamps. You will also want to check all the bulbs in all the fixtures in the home and outside the home. The last thing that you want is someone to come tour the house and a light not work.