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The Refreshed Home: Before and After Pics Part One
Besides results, The Refreshed Home’s best deliverable in design and listing prep work is peace of mind…. but let’s face it, pictures start the conversation. So welcome to the inaugural…
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FAQs: Why White Walls are the Kiss of Death in Listing Photos
Selling, or looking to snazz up your Westchester County property? Believe TRH: 99% of the time, white walls are the kiss of death. Consider: The science of it is the…
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Selling? TRH on Staging with Rental Furniture
TRH believes it’s better to consider home staging as the overall thoughtful process of preparing a property for sale, with the use of rental furniture as one option in that process.
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Relisting? What are You Going to Change This Time?
Every so often, if the planets are aligned, relisting a property exactly the same way will work the 2nd time. External changes like inventory levels, interest rates, even a different…
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Real Estate Myths for $1000 Please
Deadlines are not bad. For many of us, having structure and accountability is how we get things done. But there will always be deadlines. And I suggest creating artificial, anecdotal,…
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Second First Dates
Twenty-eight years ago tonight I had a second first date with my now- husband Doug. Our official first date was 6 weeks prior, and it didn’t go so well. He…
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Do These Things Now for Best Early Spring Market Listing Photos
Depending on the weather, and who you ask, early spring market can start anywhere from December 26th (that’d be me) to Groundhog Day, or Super Bowl Monday. This year it’s…
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Is Mona a Secret Genius? (or, Great Listing Photo Styling in Uncertain TImes)
Vowing to regain control of my mental (and actual) desktop, I’m ruthlessly cleaning out my inbox, deleting and un-subscribing left and right. Uh-oh. “Find Out if Mona is a Secret…
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Get Your Westchester County Property Noticed, and SOLD During COVID
As we navigate through COVID, houses are still being listed every day here in Westchester County. Offers are being made, and deals are being closed. More cumbersome, and in understandably…
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Bookcase Composition in the Age of Zoom and Virtual Tours
In today’s Age of Zoom and virtual tours, your bookcases are an extension of you, or your listing. Silently, its your message, your story, your credentials. So let’s talk about…
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Complete the Look: Prop Styling by The Refreshed Home
Did you know in Westchester County, half the houses were built in the mid-1960s or earlier? Capes, colonials, farmhouses and Tudors of course. And almost as many split levels and…
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