Selling IPO

IPO, Wow! I am impressed with the staging job. It looks just like a brand a new model home in PS or WB. Speaking of ROI, how much does it cost to get a staging job like this? Are all those furniture rented for staging or do you own all the furniture? I have to admit, you and IR2 really did a great job. Panda is also getting some good ideas on how to stage his Cage from all the FREE beautiful pictures from IPO.



So how does one go about getting a STAR RE agent like IR2 here in Chicago? For some reason, the quality of RE agents I've worked with here are just really "BLAH" and "Depressing" here.



Panda.
 
Wow, it does look great. Fantastic job you guys. I am definitely stopping by tomorrow morning...Maybe I'll be your first customer, daughter's figure skating wraps up at Anaheim ICE at 11:45am. IPO, hopefully you will be hanging around....would love to meet the man, the myth.
 
[quote author="CalGal" date=1215211171]<blockquote>IR2 is a guy? oh boy, have I been mentally imaging wrong? </blockquote>
Don't worry - I'm ALWAYS wrong with screennames. For the longest time I thought Trooper was a guy. I was flirting with her for the longest time. :lol:</blockquote>


I'm sure she didn't mind. ;-)
 
[quote author="CalGal" date=1215219466]IR, what time is the Open House this weekend? My husband and I might stop by and say hi.</blockquote>


Open 12-5 Sat and Sun... but if you come out on Wednesday I'm trying to get Ipop to commit his lunch hour to a meet-and-greet at the home. Wednesday will be 11-1:30pm.
 
[quote author="IrvineRealtor" date=1215220256][quote author="CalGal" date=1215219466]IR, what time is the Open House this weekend? My husband and I might stop by and say hi.</blockquote>


Open 12-5 Sat and Sun... but if you come out on Wednesday I'm trying to get Ipop to commit his lunch hour to a meet-and-greet at the home. Wednesday will be 11-1:30pm.</blockquote>
Cool. I think my husband and I will both be working from home on Wednesday, so maybe we'll take a break and stop by and say hi.
 
IR2, is the kichen a true galley-style kitchen? I only ask because the pictures shows a more open area kitchen (which I like). I usually stop reading and move on to another listing as soon as I read "galley-style kitchen." I always have a negative thought of a galley kitchen as a long and narrow room without a kitchen table. Or to use my husband's terminology a "one-butt kitchen." Ipop's kitchen is open and spacious.



Just my two cents. I could be wrong on my thought process. The following picture is is what I always think of when I see "galley kitchen":
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Ahhh, I always suspected that ipop was a dwarf...



You can tell by the 1/2 size furniture he uses to stage his home to make the rooms look bigger...



Nice color scheme though.
 
[quote author="alan" date=1215223194]Ahhh, I always suspected that ipop was a dwarf...



You can tell by the 1/2 size furniture he uses to stage his home to make the rooms look bigger...



Nice color scheme though.</blockquote>


LOL. We prefer the term Little People Alan...



The staging company always goes with smaller beds to enhance the room sizes a bit although the secondary bedrooms are fairly generous as compared to current construction trends. The master has a queen-sized bed I think. Our king definitely dominated the room much more.



The paint throughout the downstairs and master suite is Dunn Edwards Decovel in Pigeon Gray with a bit of a lightening factor. I've never been a fan of the golden hued taupes or the ones with a pinkish hue. This is a much more earthy taupe-like color.
 
[quote author="stepping_up" date=1215218578]Ipo,



All I can say is wow! Are your window coverings shutters or blinds?</blockquote>


Mostly plantation shutters. We have wood blinds in one kitchen window and the master closet window. Wood shutters throughout the downstairs and PVC shutters throughout the upstairs and in the stairwell...
 
[quote author="PANDA" date=1215214071]IPO, Wow! I am impressed with the staging job. It looks just like a brand a new model home in PS or WB. Speaking of ROI, how much does it cost to get a staging job like this? Are all those furniture rented for staging or do you own all the furniture? I have to admit, you and IR2 really did a great job. Panda is also getting some good ideas on how to stage his Cage from all the FREE beautiful pictures from IPO.



So how does one go about getting a STAR RE agent like IR2 here in Chicago? For some reason, the quality of RE agents I've worked with here are just really "BLAH" and "Depressing" here.



Panda.</blockquote>


Staging prices vary by staging company Panda and also by the size of the home. Only a few of the pieces in the house are mine. We mostly took everything. I paid a flat fee for a three-month stage. It was almost $4K... You give them a clean and touched up place and they work their magic. The pictures are good and the place really does feel like a model when you walk it. That's what we were going for and the reason I spent 40-50 hours working on the place after we moved.
 
[quote author="CalGal" date=1215220866]IR2, is the kichen a true galley-style kitchen? I only ask because the pictures shows a more open area kitchen (which I like). I usually stop reading and move on to another listing as soon as I read "galley-style kitchen." I always have a negative thought of a galley kitchen as a long and narrow room without a kitchen table. Or to use my husband's terminology a "one-butt kitchen." Ipop's kitchen is open and spacious.



Just my two cents. I could be wrong on my thought process. The following picture is is what I always think of when I see "galley kitchen":</blockquote>


I will defer to bk if he is around to comment on this but will put my own limited knowledge up FWIW.



There are not really that many kitchen layout variations: Galley, U-shaped, L-shaped, G-shaped, and Island come to mind.



The "-shaped" and Island kitchens are easy enough to visualize and pretty self-explanatory. Galley-style actually has a couple of different flavors, depending on the availability of that second straight counterspace. Your example is a "corridor" kitchen with both spaces, while the (inane) "Pullman" or (overused) "open" terms refer to a kitchen that has just the one side.



I like the "one-butt" though and will have to keep that in my bag of tricks for another day. Thank you.
 
Very nice job IPO and IR2. IR2 your correct grammar and nice set of photos put others listings to shame! Here's to hoping for a quick sale.
 
Wow, I wish all realtors cared about their properties that much. I love how the ratio of actual home versus amenities is heavily weighted to the actual home. I HATE when I see 6 pictures of the association pool (2 of them repeats) and one picure of a faucet.



Great job and best of luck to both of you!
 
I don't think they will need much luck. Stopped by this morning and toured. It really does sell itself, looks like a model home. IPO did a great job getting the place ready. He should teach a course at IVC to help these clueless sellers. Plenty of traffic this morning, I think there were 3 - 4 other families going through at the same time as us. I bet they have offers by Monday.



And I noticed by the time we got there at 12:30pm somebody had already signed in as skek with an email of skek@skek.com. Nice!
 
Just got back from the IHB party at Casa de IPO. Me, graph, cayci, IR2, irvinereturnee...good times! And very nice digs, IPO. I could see myself living there with the little prince...(if it fed into NHS, that is).
 
Yup the IHB party was Ipo's house today. Tenmagnet must have already been there, because all the Belvedere and diet Red Bull was gone. But, IR2 seemed pretty happy and mumbling on and on about the high traffic and how many people signed in as skek. Good job IHBers, keep the spam coming to the skekster.



Anyway, Ipo was right! Magic really does happen in that master bedroom...



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I dunno if having the IHB blessing is a good selling point or a bad selling point. Sorry IR2, I had to do it, it goes back from the old days when Ipo thought Case/Shiller was the beer he drank in college. Ipo knows he deserves it, and he knows he is lucky he came around and has been cool, otherwise it could be worse.



Your caulk does not rock! At least it is pretty small, and not like Brightwater.



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Nice job by the stagers trying to hide it behind the plant.



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At least you had IR2 to help with the nice new sod in the backyard.



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And, why? Seriously... why? Say it ain't so...



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This right here is a major selling point for me:



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The master bathroom is nice, but then I walk around the corner and I actually said "whoa!" when I saw the closet. A very nice closet for a townhome. Shoe cubbies = good.



Actually, most everything in that floorplan makes sense and I like it a lot.



And no IR2, I did not take the mosaic vase from the office. But I wanted to. :)



And apparently the SUV driving away as we walked up was Ipo himself and we missed meeting him by 1 whole minute. Maybe Wednesday!
 
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