Hojin’s Southwest Orlando Real Estate Scoop

I want to thank everyone for checking out the Scoop the past couple of years, so I teamed up with CSN Lighting to give away this gorgeous lamp designed by Carolyn Kinder for free. It’s beautiful with it’s light bronze finish, black matte accents, and Sienna crackle fabric bell shade. It’s been crafted by the [...]

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I don’t know about you, but I walk through a lot of houses here in Dr. Phillips and Windermere and it seems like every house has granite counter tops now. According a an AP article, 40% of new homes included granite counter tops. Personally, I’m getting tired of seeing it everywhere. What used to be [...]

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This episode of Secrets That Sell illustrates a few key things to keep in mind when preparing to put your home on the market.
The biggest point of the video is not to hide your home with clutter and personal items. You want potential buyers walking through to be able to imagine their stuff in your [...]

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Barbara Corcoran has been showing up quite a bit lately on the Today Show with some great tips for real estate. In this segment, Corcoran suggests that a beautiful backyard can add 11% to a home’s value. I wish I agreed with her on this one, but I think she’s exaggerating here. Sure a nice [...]

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One of the most common suggestions made by interior designers and home stagers is paint. Time and time again they say it gives you the most bang for the buck when it comes to home improvement. The only problem is the colors that are in fashion seem to change every year. So I started wondering [...]

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This public service announcement is either just really funny or a serious health warning. The Don’t Pass Gas website claims that asthma, bronchitis, allergies, coughs, ear infections, and pneumonia can be caused from breathing in the toxic fumes from the gastrointestinally challenged. Actually, they’re referring to second hand smoke from cigarettes but the analogy is [...]

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Home sellers often wonder if paying for a service to stage their home is worth the money. According to the statistics from stagedhomes.com, staging results in a sales prices that is on average 6.9% higher and with 50% less time on the market. The findings here probably have some bias but there has not been [...]

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Is staging worth the money? According to a recent post by Gitta Urbainczyk on her blog, homes that are staged get 6.9% more. She recommends staging for all price ranges. Here is the link to her post if you’d like to read further.

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HGTV has a great article pertaining to the the steps necessary to stage your home to look like a million bucks. The article contains the following 13 steps that will give your home that “have to have” look.

Make an Entrance. The outside of the home is the first thing people see and it says a [...]

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AOL, the forgotten about internet company that was once famous for sending cd’s in the mail to pay for dial up connections through your home phone line that were slow as hell and the lovely phrase “you’ve got mail”, has really neat pages with tips for staging your home to look bigger, brighter, and inviting [...]

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