My Dad, Step mom and sister Kris, drove 20 hours for a visit from Michigan all the way to good ole Colorado. They came to surprise my son who fought MMA last Friday evening. A good time was had by all!
Kris, Linda, Christopher, Nicholas and me!
My Son Nicholas After the Win
I don’t get to see my family often, when I do I count it as a blessing.
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I adore Benjamin Moore Paints! Benjamin Moore announced the 2015 Color of the Year and it is lovely. A natural neutral, Guilford Green HC-116 is a silvery green that works with modern and tradtion styles coming from their historical collection.
Ellen O’Neill, Creative Director at Benjamin Moore states “Guilford Green is the perfect thread to connect nature, spaces and interiors with color schemes that signify fresh energy and growth.”
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Home staging like merchandising – helps to change a homebuyers perceptions. Just as advertising and the media present products for sale to the consumer, home staging can have the same effect when merchandizing your home for sale. Simple tricks like placing wine or bar glasses on the bar counter, create the illusion of entertaining friends and family.
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If you are getting ready to sell your home you may be thinking about a home improvement project to raise the value of your home and get it market ready.
The good, the bad and the ugly determines your return on investment.
Plumbing and electrical may be better left to the pros. A job done incorrectly may result in health and safety risks to friends and family.
An electrical job gone wrong could lead to fire or code violations. Water damage from bad plumbing work could lead to costly water damage repairs and cleanup, as well as secondary structural damage.
I am totally beside myself with excitement. My Dad, Stepmom and my Stepsister Kris (who I love dearly) drove 20 long, butt numbing hours from Michigan to Colorado.
My Dad with Me, Linda and Kris in Michigan over July 4th.
For them it looked something like this: Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, cornfields, cornfields, cornfields, more cornfields then Colorado.
My MMA fighting son, Nicholas Clem is fighting in the Sparta fight and the family wanted to surprise him at the fight. Here is one of his past fights, just in case you are curious. He’s the one in the white trunks.
I haven’t seen my family since our 20 hour long, butt numbing drive from CO to MI over the Fourth of July. My route looked the same as theirs, as it’s the quickest other than flying.
But if you fly you miss out on all that family bonding and “how much longers” and “are we there yets”. Wink wink you’ve never heard that right?
Selfies! Daughter Chloe and Me on the Road to MI
Nicholas and I. I pull over for just about anything! LOL
Kris has never seen our Rocky Mountains and the whole bunch of ’em have never seen Nicholas fight. We are going to have sooooooo much fun!
Spur of the moment notice and me with a full house, had to reassign beds. Kicked daughter Chloe to the sofa to allow the grand peeps a bed. Kris is bunking with me, yeehaw! But it’s ok cuz I’m happy they are here.
Have a full fridge, got what I could get done, done ahead of time and it’s nothing but loving up on my peeps while I’ve got them here with me.
Ps. I will update you on the fight and the visit later. Until then, I’ll talk at ya later.
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Hey, Johanna here (or Jo like my family calls me)! We all want to retain customers, right? Monday Marketing Mojo is the place to come to learn marketing tips that I have found successful.
Today I’m going to share about an inexpensive, easy tool used to communicate with your clients. It is called an auto-responder.
Auto-responders are used to communicate with potential clients and past clients.
Your autoresponder is your 24/7 assistant that will take care of reaching your clients through their email inbox. News flash: giving you more time to do other things :-).
How it works: Emails are set up to go out at predetermined intervals to a user who subscribes to your email list. If you haven’t started collecting email addresses your autoresponder has an app that you can sync with your website or blog.
The first email that you send might be a Welcome email, thanking your potential client for signing up.
The auto responder will let you schedule all future emails at intervals that you have chosen.
Write your emails as if you are writing to a friend. Share and be helpful. Here are just a few ideas:
Be top of mind when your clients need your services by providing helpful email info. Check out how it works —->
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Often when doing a home staging consultation in an owner occupied house that will be for sale on the market (not new construction), I reccommend to clients that they paint their walls. Trust me, I don’t think that people like to paint. I almost always hear loud groans. So, if the home seller is groaning when I recommend a new paint color, you can bet your bottom dollar that so will potential home buyers, if they think they will have to paint when they move into their new home (I think that is the last thing they want to do after moving, right?).
When home staging, a new color may be recommended if: the paint color needs to be updated, or the client has bold paint color and/or dark paint color that may not appeal to the broadest range of potential buyers. Not mention should paint be needed due to dents, dings and holes.
For a home seller it can be overwhelming to select a paint color that will appeal to a broad range of potential buyers. Following I will share top color trends that are being seen in today’s model homes as well as newly constructed homes.
Hi, I’m Johanna Wells! Thanks for stopping by and welcome to my new blog! This is just an introductory post so I’ll keep it short and sweet.
I decided to start a blog because I have a passion for Home Staging in which I have practiced for the last 10+ years (I am all about “home sweet home”). My Blog will act as a Home Staging resource to questions about everything Home Staging, (art, color, furniture arrangement, tips, tricks and trends).
Over the next few months I plan to be writing and sharing posts about Home Staging, Tips, Tricks and Real Estate trends. Posting on how to Home Stage for sale and Home Staging for the pure enjoyment of creating a welcoming place in which to live.
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