Is Your Desk a Candidate for Detox?

Take a moment and look at your desktop. Is it edge-to-edge paperwork? Are your files in piles so high, people looking into your office would mistakenly think you’re not in? Do your co-workers roll their eyes when they hear you say, “I know it’s here someplace.”?
Or worse, are people in the habit of making a copy of the documents they give you, knowing you may not be able to locate your copy when it’s time to act upon it?

With the increasing demands of our work lives, even the most organized person can easily spin out of control, become buried beneath piles of “To Do’s” and filing.

For years I have listened to clients’ exclamations of knowing what’s in every pile. Of being able to put their hands on any document needed. In reality, I have yet to meet the person who can back that claim.

The paper shuffle has become so endemic that a new term has been coined for it, “infonoia.” “Infonoia” is the fear of being caught without an important document at the time it’s needed. It is, in short, paranoia of lack of information.

Especially today, with the reach and depth of computers, most any document can be recreated on the rare occasion that you can’t produce it when needed. More realistically speaking, the only real value of information is measured in your ability to put your hands on it when it’s called for. In other words, stacks and reams of paper are worthless – aka have no value – …

All the World’s a Stage – Including Your Living Room

With the recent tightening in the residential real estate market, we’ve started receiving numerous calls from around the country inquiring about Home Staging. Home staging, is an emerging practice among home sellers at every price level.

Home Staging is in practical terms, putting your home’s best foot forward. It’s optimizing your home’s appeal and it has real payoffs. It’s been stated that Home Staging can maximize the selling price by as much as 10% while minimizing the time the home is on the market by weeks and months.

Who doesn’t want to sell their home for as much as possible and in as little time as possible? All of our White Space ™ clients, for sure.

Until recently we had only staged homes from clients who came to us originally for other reasons; file systems, storage and closet organization, or general de-cluttering of their homes. We had staged perhaps a dozen homes. We’ve had 50 or more inquiries in recent weeks for our services in this area.

We just completed three stagings and the clients’ reactions were similar. Our client, Andy, said his home felt sterile to him. And Linda said she felt as though she was living in a hotel. Mission Accomplished!!!

That’s a good gauge as to our success in creating a home that potential buyers could see as their home. As of this blogging, Andy’s home has sold and Linda has had much more activity in viewings and interest. She may even be in contract by now.

The most important asset …