This Is Not Linda Donnelly, Our Home Stager and Designer. It Only Seems That Way, Sometimes, To Our Clients
May 30th, 2008 Categories: Fun Fridays, Sellers
Getting a Home Ready to Sell is No Piece of Cake. In a Competitive Real Estate Market Like Annapolis, You Had Better Do It Right. Linda D is Our Pro
Much of our work as agents involves telling people things they’d rather not hear: We need to adjust the selling price. Your septic system has issues. The would-be buyers have withdrawn their offer and are moving to Costa Rica instead.
That’s why I don’t mind paying someone else, on occasion, to tell people things I’d rather not tell them and that they’d rather not hear. Just makes my life a little easier.
One such person is our team stager/designer, Linda Donnelly. Not only does Linda have years of interior design experience. Nobody is better than she is at spotting potential buyer objections and offering sound solutions. That’s why she works with our sellers: to eliminate objections to a sale. It works: the homes she has staged for us sell, and beat the average days on market considerably.
Linda is extremely pleasant, but the experience - I must tell you - can be challenging for a seller. Imagine a 3-or 4-hour marathon session in which your home is put under a microscope, shortcomings are served up, and corrective homework is lavishly assigned. I worry how some clients will hold up. Linda knows to call me right away after a consultation and give me an update.
How did it go, I’ll ask.
Fine, she’ll say, until I told them they had to get rid of their dogs.
Linda likes to tease me, but her sense of humor is one of the things that makes her so good at what she does. This, too: she’s not afraid to roll up her sleeves and do much of the needed work with our clients. I think of her as our personal trainer for home sellers: she’ll push you to make your home look as irresistible as it can be. And in the end you’ll get the results you were hoping for.
Linda’s services, by the way, are included for free when we list a home. Call for more details.
