This morning was the Broker Open House in Bedford, New Hampshire I co-sponsored with Jeff Meade from Keller Williams and Brian Makris from Residential Mortgage Services. I have a love/hate relationship with these things. I love to hear the good feedback but hate feeling nervous and wondering if the feedback will be good. Even now, with all my staging successes I am still surprised when people tell me they think I have done a good job.
I went early to make sure everything was in place and to chat with Jeff. The house looked fantastic! I really like these homeowners. I honestly cannot figure out why this house was not picked up the day it hit the market.
I brought chocolates and Jeff picked up Panera sandwiches that Brian ordered. I am way to nervous to eat anything but I pretend to eat a roast beef sandwich. While we are waiting for people to show up, I am entertaining Jeff by telling him how the rearview mirror fell off in the Audi wagon my husband brought home the other day. I am driving it for the week and actually really enjoying it. What I like the most about this now unattached mirror is that it is great for putting on makeup (seriously, who puts on makeup at home anymore? Right?). At stop lights I am refreshing my lipgloss while looking in it. I will totally admit that this is mostly for show because the looks I am getting from other drivers are hilarious. Anywho…the first realtors finally show up - people I know….Yay! They are saying how great the house looks and what a good job I did with the staging…whew! Huge relief. I leave before anyone else shows up.
I now need to check the furniture quote that came in, get it on my letterhead, and out to my client along with my pricing for accessory rental and staging. At this point, I have accessories at so many jobs I am not sure I will have enough left but I guess that is what HomeGoods is for, right? I am also fielding more calls from people signing up for my class. Yay!
All of this is great but I am starting to wonder if I am ever going to catch up! I have to create some kind of roster for the class, still need a location for the class (yikes!), I also need my poor doggie to feel better and ideally stop throwing up (yuck!), I am in dire need of something interesting to post on Twitter, and I know there are about 300 other things on my “to-do” list but since I cannot seem to find the list right now I am not sure what they are. Oh, and did I mention its 11pm?