Staging Without Spending ? One Key to Home Selling Success ...

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Staging Without Spending ? One Key to Home Selling Success!

Effective staging is a tremendous benefit when needing or wanting to sell a home. But professional staging can be expensive. Don?t get me wrong ? professional stagers do absolutely amazing jobs! But sometimes the money?s just not there to hire a stager, buy a bunch of staging materials or rent snazzy furniture.

Although the real estate market seems to be recovering slightly, most sellers still need to capture every penny possible from the sale of their existing home ? perhaps to gain maximum sufficient funds to purchase a new place or perhaps to attract a sufficient price will keep their sale from falling into the short sale category.

Simple clean-up and rearranging of furniture can do wonders without spending much more than the cost of soap and water, a few boxes to store extra clutter and possessions, and maybe the short-term rental of a storage unit.?

Removing worn throw rugs, dingy pillows and bedspreads is a tremendously effective tool.?Sometimes merely washing and ironing (yes ? that word) is sufficient.?A bottle of bleach and a can of my favorite ?Barkeepers Friend? can make kitchens and bathrooms really shine.?Remove all of those refrigerator magnets, canisters, coffee pots, grinders, toasters, etc. as they just look like clutter when photographed. (And a good listing agent should take lots of photos of your house to show off its best features.)

A seller and I often spend?less than $250 when preparing a home for sale. For less than about $50, I always buy a few brand new thick fluffy towels, color-appropriate shower curtains, and candles to work wonders in bathrooms. Add a couple of ribbons around the towels for a model-home look.

A visit to the local thrift store can provide a couple of big?toys (scrubbed sparkling clean, of course) to add personality to an empty bedroom. A gallon or two of mis-mixed neutral-toned?paint and a couple of hours can freshen up a stale entry. Don?t forget the?discount stores such as Big Lots!, TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods when shopping for linens and impact art pieces. Check out the clearance aisles at Home Depot or Lowe?s if you need to replace or update light fixtures or cabinet pulls. I?ve picked up small tables and then spray painted them for entry accents.

And don?t forget the front door. My favorite is to paint the door a deep charcoal or black. Then put a couple of pots of live flowers near the front door. Not just greenery (of course it depends on the time of year), but some nice yellows, reds, or purples sitting on the clean front porch near that freshly painted front door ? just does wonders.

I wish I?d have taken more ?before? pictures from some of the homes I?ve sold, but did scrounge up a few before and after photos. Maybe these few photos will give you a few ideas.

Before (nice kitchen & well kept, but?look at the clutter?y fridge and the stuff above the cupboards.) ? ? ? ? Here?s the same kitchen after decluttering. Still a few necessary things on the counter ? but look at the difference! Could we have removed the wallpaper border? Yes ? but the owner really pushed back and I wanted to pick my battles. ?	?
Another before and after kitchen. Of course it helped tremendously to remove the spent roses from the room ?but even removing the extra microwave cart and adding a little breakfast table to the end made a huge difference!?	?
Here?s another before and after. One of those difficult young teen?s?rooms where stuff gets thrown everywhere. Tied up the curtains, removed the extra dresser and held the threat of extra chores and homework?over the young owner?s head should the place get cluttered again during the selling process. You can?t see the posters on that were on the wall beside the bed and taped to the closet doors. Those were taken down, with the tape residue also scrubbed off. ?	?
Even outside small organizational efforts can be amazing. Check out these before and after deck photos. It was raining during the ?before? photo and sunny during the ?after? photo. We trimmed up the overgrown bush in the corner, rearranged the BBQ area,? swept the roof overhang and rearranged the deck furniture?so it looked tidy.?	?
I wish I had a couple of the ?before? photos of this bedroom and bathroom. Owned by a single guy (what fun it was to work with him, actually! He was SO appreciative of everything I did to help him get his little condo?ready for sale!) Take it on good faith ? with all of the sports posters and ?stuff? that he?d carefully collected over the years, the place needed a bit of effort to get it market ready. This ?blue? bedroom was a bit of a challenge, but adding a new bedspread and pictures cooled it down?a bit without repainting. (By the way ? we also removed the artsy ?nudes? in the bathrooms. I could just envision a youngster?s pointed questions!) The place?sold for list price .. and very quickly once it was ready and during a time in the down market when it was VERY difficult to sell a condo!	?

In almost every house, rearranging furniture and gathering all of the collectibles into a single ?themed? room also goes a long ways. Prior to listing, walk through the house and notice how many things you?ve gathered that are similar ? little ceramic boats, boat pictures, metal sailboats. We all tend to have things we love, but then we spread them out all over. Gather them together into a boat-themed bathroom or bedroom.

Sometimes you can Stage Without Spending ? One Key to Home Selling Success!

Source: http://www.gabriellenemes.com/2013/01/staging-without-spending-one-key-to-home-selling-success/

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The Business Travel Bad & Ugly? Because There Ain't Anything ...

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The Business Travel Bad & Ugly? Because There Ain?t Anything Good About It

by Robert Wagner

I?m currently travelling for business reasons. I do this rather often, though fortunately not as much as I used to. I?ve been pretty much everywhere at one time or another and I can honestly say that I?ve yet to be bitten by the ?hey look at me, I travel a lot so I must be important? bug.

I?d rather be at home actually.

That said, I?ve been pondering a few things this trip:

• How is it that in 2013 there are still airport security personnel that don?t know what a ultrabook, ultraportable laptop, or MacBook Air is and don?t understand that they don?t contain a physical hard drive. And no matter how many times you look at that cool little cheat sheet with the diagram of a 2003 Dell Inspiron, you?re not going to find all of those same parts when you examine my Mac?
• When will airport security make up its mind whether or not the iPad is or is not a laptop and instruct me to either keep it in my bag or remove it accordingly? I don?t care which way you want to go, just standardize your goddamn rules.
• How is a small tube of toothpaste any less deadly than a large tube of toothpaste?
• Why do hotels that refer to themselves as ?resorts? always have scratchier towels and impossibly cheaper bottles of budget brand soap, shampoo, and conditioner?
• When will I learn to bring my own soap, shampoo, and conditioner?
• How come my shitting schedule gets thrown out the window simply because I sat on my ass for several hours and got out of my chair in a different time zone? And what is the best way to return it to normal?
• Why is it legal for powdered eggs to be called eggs at all?
• Who are these Road Warriors? that are satisfied with only 2 cups of shitty hotel room coffee? Sure, it says it makes 4 cups but that?s only if you?re drinking it out of DIXIE? Brand 3oz. containers.
• Is my wifi-only iPad mini really going to make the plane crash if I?m reading a book on it during takeoff? If so, I demand that the tree-hating assholes reading paperbacks be required to put their books down during takeoff and landing ??and we should all sit upright and stare straight ahead like the little lemming-zombies you want us to be.
• Why can?t I pay for the in-flight high school cafeteria quality food with cash? Or, better still, why do you hire flight attendants that can?t be trusted to: a) make correct change, and b) not steal from you.
• Is there anywhere I can fly directly to from Portland International Airport? I hate stopovers.
• Why does it seem like half of the females over 30 take business travel way too seriously? The other half are casual and friendly, what the fuck is your excuse for acting like you?re all that ? you?re in economy class, honey, sit down and shut up. No one is impressed.
• (Continued) Why is it that those same self-important females over 30 act like they haven?t had sex in a decade and try to touch, fondle, flirt with, and fuck every other guy in the room?
• (Continued) And finally?why do those same women (yes, I?m still on this, sorry) act so put off when you decline their advances? I?m sorry you?re hideous and live a meaningless existence but that?s no excuse to be a fucking asshole to someone just because they don?t want to ?go for a few drinks and see where it leads.? I know exactly where it leads ??and I?m sure a few hundred other men probably do too. Go away. Stay away. Fuck off.
• Why does the familiarity of McDonald?s seem so goddamn comforting just because I?m away from home? I don?t eat it when I am at home, so why does it remind me of home?
• The wireless carriers lie ??their coverage is pretty much spotty and shitty everywhere.
• Why must I always call my bank before I travel so that they don?t shut off my debit and credit cards? Seriously, they should know by now that I travel from time to time ??it?s none of their fucking business when or where.

Bon Voyage, bitches.

Source: http://robwagpdx.com/the-business-travel-bad-ugly-because-there-aint-anything-good-about-it/

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The Age of the Earth--An Age-Old Question [Excerpt]

Lord Kelvin applied thermodynamics to the problem of Earth?s age. Although his estimates are now known to be incorrect by several orders of magnitude, they shook up the established theories of 19th-century geologists

By Paul S. Braterman

From Stars To Stalagmites: How Everything Connects Image: Paul S. Braterman

Editor's Note: This excerpt is from the first chapter of From Stars to Stalagmites: How Everything Connects, by Paul S. Braterman. Earlier in the chapter the author discusses the ideas among geologists in the 19th century that physical processes such as erosion had always occurred at the same rates and that the features of Earth were static, leading them to conclude that the planet had had no beginning nor would it have an end. Here he writes about how the ideas of physicist William Thomson would end up turning those theories on their heads, paving the way for our current understanding of Earth's early history and age.

Other developments, however, were to undermine this view. I have already mentioned steam engines and railways. Science in the mid 19th century was much occupied with matters concerning work and energy, and the efficiency of heat engines. This period saw the development of a new subject, thermodynamics, dedicated to such matters. One of the most fundamental results of thermodynamics (the First Law) is that energy is conserved. Another (the Second Law) is, that since energy tends to spread out and degrade irreversibly over time, there could be no such thing as a perpetual motion machine. Any real process, and certainly such a process as the uplift and erosion of the Earth, is operating against friction, with overall irreversible degradation of energy into heat, and this is something that cannot continue on its own indefinitely. Yet the Earth, as seen by Hutton and Lyell, appeared to be just one such machine, running through cycles of uplift and erosion with no visible source of energy to drive the process. Conflict between the thermodynamicists and the geologists was inevitable.

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, in whose honour the absolute temperature scale is now named, was among the most distinguished scientists of the late 19th century. His work straddled the boundary between pure and applied research. Among other things, he played a major role in establishing the relationships between heat, work, and electricity, worked out the theory for how much information (as we would now say) could be carried by the first submarine cable, and improved the form of the compass and the methods of navigation. He was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy (i.e. Physics) at Glasgow University when he was 22, and held that Chair for more than 50 years.

Kelvin was interested in the age of the Earth, considered as a problem in physics, from a very early stage. It was the subject of a prize undergraduate essay, and also of his inaugural lecture at Glasgow, now unfortunately lost. He was also a sharp critic of the science of geology as it was developing. He argued (correctly) that extreme uniformitarianism was not compatible with the laws of physics. Things must have been very different at some time in the past, and would be different again in the future. The Earth was losing heat and must have once been a molten ball. The Sun was emitting energy, could not have been there forever, and must eventually run out of energy, plunging the Earth into utter cold and darkness.

In a lengthy series of publications, Kelvin attempted to quantify these general objections. He developed a way of estimating the age of the Earth?s solid crust from cooling arguments. It is hot down a mine, and the deeper you go, the hotter. If you could go down deep enough, you would, at a depth of some miles, reach the Earth?s mantle, where the rock is actually molten. So if we have cooler rocks on top and hotter rocks lower down, heat must be flowing up through the rocks from the centre outwards. Knowing how fast the temperature increases as we go down, and how effectively the rocks of the crust conduct heat, Kelvin calculated how fast the Earth was losing heat. Where was this heat coming from? Kelvin thought he had the answer. He assumed (correctly) that the Earth was originally molten, and that heat must have dissipated as the Earth?s rocks solidified from an originally molten state (the opposite kind of process to ice absorbing heat as it melts). From an estimate of the thickness of the solid rock layer (the crust), and from measurements of how much heat it takes to melt a given amount of rock, he was able to estimate how much heat has been given out by this process of solidification. Then, by running the model backwards through time, he calculated that the thickness of the Earth?s solid crust corresponded to 100 million years. At this date before the present, all the rocks now on the surface would have been molten, and this, according to his argument, is therefore an absolute upper limit on the age of the solid crust of the Earth.

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Development Associate Resume Sample - Cover Letters and ...

Development associates work in a support role to provide assistance to a development director within a company. Their basic job is to ensure that all work is managed in a smooth way as they maintain specialized databases and perform other development related administrative activities. Here is a sample resume for someone wishing to work in this capacity.

Development Associate Resume Sample

Nina Nathanial
1022 Parker Road, Brookline, NH 53433
(999) 999-9009, Email
_______________________________________________________________

OBJECTIVE
To work for WWF as a Development Associate where I may use my skills in managing donation related work in a highly stimulating not-for-profit organization.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS
? Two years of dedicated development work in a non-profit organization
? Highly skilled in implementing grant management programs to determine interests
? In depth knowledge of cultivation, solicitation and identifying benefactors
? Hands on experience in managing fundraising activities and event management

RELEVANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
? Acquired the total amount of grant proposed for the year 2011 for benefactor benefit
? Formulated and implemented development strategies to manage fundraising activities

EXPERIENCE
January 2010 ? Present
LEAD USA ? Brookline, NH
Development Associate
? Assist in researching opportunities for grant acquisition
? Draft grant proposals and maintain grant proposals
? Maintain corporate and individual donor files
? Handle administrative details
? Prepare media materials and donor kits
? Assist with management of annual budget expenses and revenue data

EDUCATION
Brookline University ? Brookline, NH
Masters in Business Education ? 2009

ADDITIONAL SKILLS
? Outstanding analytic and problem solving skills
? Excellent client orientation and communication skills
? Strong presentation skills
? Exceptional organizational skills

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TourWrist puts a twist on the photo sphere (hands-on video)

You've heard of Instagram, right? Are you familiar with Microsoft's Photosynth and Google's Photo Sphere on Nexus phones and tablets? How about Apple's brilliant continuous-scan panorama mode on iOS devices? Well mash all this up and you get TourWrist, an app / social network for sharing photo spheres. The app started life as a social network for virtual tourism and gained one million users since launching in 2010. Here in Las Vegas, the company just launched the latest version of TourWrist with a focus on capturing photos spheres. Unlike Microsoft's and Google's approach, which stitches 360-degree images from discrete pictures, the app uses continuous-scan like Apple's panorama mode. The resulting photo spheres are truly impressive and look significantly better than the competition, especially when captured in tricky lighting conditions. All 360-degree images can be shared with other TourWrist users, Instagram-style, and with other social networks by linking to an HTML5-compatible viewer. Take a look at our gallery below and peek after the break for our hands-on video and sample photo sphere captured on site.

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Breaking: Subway Is Experimenting With Creamy Sriracha Sauce to Spice Up Your Six-Inch

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