Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
We understand the power that the Internet holds for changing your life and making things easier for you. These benefits are at risk if people are concerned about their personal privacy. We are committed to providing you with an Internet experience that respects and protects your personal privacy choices and concerns.
In general, we gather information about all of our users collectively. We only use such information anonymously and in the aggregate. This information helps us determine what is most beneficial for our users, and how we can continually create a better overall experience for you.
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This site provides an email address link located on the Contact Us page so that you may email us directly with any questions or comments you may have. This site reads all messages received and makes efforts to respond promptly.
In addition to replying to your comment or inquiry, we may also file your email for future reference regarding improvements to our website or discard the information. Your personal information is not shared, traded, sold, or exchanged with any third parties without your express permission.
Information Collection and Use
This site is the sole owner of the information collected. We will not sell, share, trade, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.
This site collects information from our users at several different points on our website. We only collect personal information necessary to effectively market and sell the property of sellers, to locate, assess, and qualify properties for buyers, and to otherwise provide professional services to clients and customers.
We do not sell, trade, transfer, rent, or exchange your personal information with anyone.
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Since this site is a real estate site, we give you the option of requesting free real estate information about real estate properties. Your personal information is stored on our secure database.
We only collect personal information necessary to effectively market and sell the property of sellers, to locate, assess, and qualify properties for buyers, and to otherwise provide professional services to clients and customers.
We do not sell, trade, transfer, rent, or exchange your personal information with anyone.
Personal Information
This site functionality requires or requests users to give us contact information, such as their email address, and personal information, such as their names, addresses, phone numbers, and property details.
The visitor’s contact and personal information is used to contact the visitor when necessary and requested, but is primarily used to collect personal information necessary to effectively market and sell the property of sellers, to locate, assess, and qualify properties for buyers, and to otherwise provide professional services to clients and customers.
We do not sell, trade, transfer, rent, or exchange your personal information with anyone.
We do not disclose information about your individual visits to this site, or personal information that you provide, such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, etc., to any outside parties, except when we believe the law requires it.
Legal Disclaimer
We may disclose personal information when required by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law, or comply with a legal process served on our website.
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Users of this site have the option to unsubscribe from our mailing list directly through their accounts. To opt out, please navigate to the Subscription Settings located under My Account.
By disabling the email or SMS notification toggle, you’ll cease to receive notifications associated with the selected options.
Links
This site contains links to other sites. These sites have their own policies and practices with respect to online privacy, and this site cannot be responsible for the privacy practices, or the content, of these websites.
In addition, in certain instances, this site’s advertisers may ask you for personal information. This site cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of its advertisers.
Only certain employees have access to the information you provide us. For example, we impose strict rules on our employees who have access either to the databases that store user information, or to the servers that host our services.
While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse, or alteration to data will not occur, we try to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.
Notification of Changes
This policy may be revised over time as new features are added to the website. We’ll post those changes so that you’ll always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we’ll disclose it to anyone.
Please check this site for information about revisions to our privacy policy. We’ll notify you directly if there is a material change in our privacy practices.
We’ll take commercially reasonable measures to obtain written or active email consent from the user if this site is going to use the information collected from the user in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection. We’ll also post the changes in our privacy statement 10 days prior to a change.
Cookies
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Google Analytics
This cookie allows us to see information on user website activities, including, but not limited to, page views, source, and time spent on websites. The information is depersonalized and is displayed as numbers, meaning it cannot be tracked back to individuals.
This will help to protect your privacy. Using Google Analytics, we can see what content is popular on our website, and strive to give you more of the things you enjoy reading and watching.
Google AdWords
Using Google AdWords code, we’re able to see which pages helped lead to contact form submissions. This allows us to make better use of our paid search budget.
Removal of and Access to Personal Information
We’ll accommodate the deletion of any personal information as soon as reasonably possible.
Should you wish to request erasure of personal data, please submit a written request to Macedo Real Estate Group, addressed to the address listed below. Each request will be validated, and you’ll be required to provide some personal information for security reasons.
Please note that Macedo Real Estate Group has the right to deny a request and provide an explanation as to why each request was denied.
Macedo Real Estate Group
www.MacedoRealEstateGroup.com
110 Weston Road
Toronto, ON M6M0A6
Canada
[email protected]
416-535-5000
Privacy Questions
If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, please send us an email, and we’ll be pleased to assist.
Royal LePage® Supreme Realty, Brokerage
110 Weston Road
Toronto, ON M6N 0A6
Call 416-535-8000
Text 647-931-5151
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What Staging Actually Does and What You Can Skip
What Staging Is and What It Is Not
Staging is the process of arranging furniture, art and accessories in a home so that buyers can picture themselves living there. It is not decorating. The difference matters. Decorating reflects the owner's taste. Staging removes the owner's taste entirely and replaces it with something neutral enough that the widest possible range of buyers can project their own life onto the space.
A well staged home photographs better, shows better, and sells with less friction. The debate is not whether staging works. The debate is how much of it you actually need.
Where Staging Makes the Biggest Difference
The living room, the primary bedroom and the kitchen are the three rooms that drive the buying decision. If you are going to stage anything, stage those. A buyer who walks into a well presented living room with a clear sense of scale, comfortable furniture and good light will feel differently about the rest of the house than one who walks into a room full of somebody else's family photographs and oversized sectional.
The primary bedroom is the second most important room because it is the most personal. Buyers need to see it as theirs, not yours. Neutral bedding, minimal furniture, and nothing on the nightstand that reminds them they are standing in a stranger's bedroom.
The kitchen sells itself if it is clean, uncluttered and well lit. Staging a kitchen usually means removing things rather than adding them. Clear the worktops. Take the magnets off the fridge. Put the small appliances away. If there is a breakfast bar, two stools and nothing else on the surface.
What You Can Usually Skip
Bathrooms rarely need professional staging. Clean grout, fresh towels and an empty vanity top do more than anything a stager would bring in. The cost of staging a bathroom is almost never recovered in the sale price.
Children's bedrooms and spare rooms can be decluttered and cleaned without being staged. Buyers understand that children live in houses. What they do not want to see is chaos. A tidy room with a made bed is enough.
Garages, basements and utility rooms do not need staging. They need to be clean and accessible. A buyer opening a garage door wants to see the floor and the walls, not a curated workshop display.
The garden does not need staging in the traditional sense, but it does need tidying. Mow the lawn, trim the edges, clear the patio furniture, and make sure the front entrance looks intentional rather than neglected. This is curb appeal, and it costs almost nothing.
The Occupied Home Question
If you are living in the home while it is on the market, full staging is not practical. You cannot live in a show home. What you can do is edit. Remove a third of your furniture, a third of your personal items, and all of your clutter. Store it off site if you can, in the garage if you cannot.
The most effective staging for an occupied home is subtraction. Every item you remove makes the rooms feel larger, the surfaces cleaner, and the light better. It costs nothing beyond the effort, and it changes the way the home photographs, which is where most buyers make their first decision about whether to book a showing.
If the home is vacant, staging becomes more important, not less. An empty room photographs badly. It looks smaller than it is, colder than it is, and gives the buyer nothing to anchor their sense of how the space works. A vacant home with no staging often sits longer than a furnished home that has been edited.
What Professional Staging Costs
A consultation, where a stager walks through and tells you what to move, remove and rearrange using your own furniture, typically costs between $300 and $600. This is the highest value option for most occupied homes.
Full staging with rented furniture for a vacant home runs from $3,000 to $8,000 or more depending on the size of the property and the duration of the rental. The rental is typically for 60 to 90 days. If the home sells quickly, the cost per day is low. If it does not, the rental extends and the cost climbs.
Virtual staging, where empty rooms are digitally furnished in the listing photographs, costs $100 to $300 per image. It helps online but creates a jarring disconnect when the buyer arrives at an empty house. Use it as a supplement, not a substitute.
The Honest Assessment
Staging does not fix a pricing problem. If your home is overpriced, staging will make it a well presented overpriced home, and it will still sit. The listing photograph sequence, which we covered in a recent post, matters more than any single piece of furniture.
Where staging earns its cost is in the first impression, online and in person. A buyer who feels good walking through the front door is a buyer who writes an offer with fewer conditions and less hesitation. That is the return on investment, and it is real, but only when the price is already right.
If you are preparing to list and want an honest view of what staging would and would not do for your specific property, call me at 416-560-4983. I will walk through with you and tell you where the money is worth spending and where it is not.
Danny Macedo, Macedo Real Estate Group, Royal LePage Supreme Realty, Brokerage.
