Over the years we have been asked by multiple clients to explain why they should consider using a personal concierge. We have been asked what we bring to the table, what our strengths and weaknesses are, and just about any other question you can think of. Boiling it down to...
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Category Archives: Concierge Services
Selling Your Home: Furnished or Unfurnished?
The kids are grown and gone. It’s time to downsize, so you’re ready to put the house on the market and see what it will fetch. You could sell it completely unfurnished and move your belongings to your new home. On the other hand, you could also list your home...
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Spring Household Tasks Ideal for Concierge Providers
Spring is now here in full force. Those shorter days punctuated with cold temperatures and snow are in the rear-view mirror for the next seven months or so. Now it is time to get the house back in order for spring and summer. Feel free to call on My Divine...
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Why Don’t Family Members Appreciate My Collections?
Imagine spending decades collecting things that you truly appreciate. When it comes time to downsize, you cannot take your collections with you. So instead of donating or selling them to people who may not appreciate them, you offer your collections to family members. To your dismay, no one in the...
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Self-Storage for Dummies
We wanted to take the opportunity of our monthly blog posts to address some of the basics of self-storage. No, we don’t think you’re a dummy. We only titled this post ‘Self-Storage for Dummies’ to get your attention. It worked, didn’t it? At any rate, the greater New York area...
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When Broom-Clean Isn’t Good Enough: Don’t Sweat It
How do you clean a home or apartment when you are moving out? Both sales contracts and leases usually stipulate that the property must be broom-clean. Unfortunately, sometimes broom-clean is not good enough for the people moving in. Our advice in such cases is to not sweat it. As long...
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Senior Concierge Service: Your Parental Care Partner
Your parents are the most wonderful people you have ever met. They sacrificed hand over fist to give you a good childhood and to raise you to be the adult you are today. Now you have the opportunity to repay them by helping care for them in their senior years....
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Staging a Home Filled with Collectibles
Selling a home these days requires more than just taking a few pictures and listing it in a weekly real estate magazine. Today’s sophisticated buyers expect to walk into homes and experience what it might be like to live in them. That is one of the reasons experts recommend staging...
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Top 4 Reasons to Be Concerned About Clutter
This is the time of year when a lot of us begin looking around our homes and seeing clutter. For some, accumulating clutter is an annual ritual directly attributable to being stuck indoors during the winter. For others though, clutter is a chronic problem that really needs to be addressed....
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Downsizing 101: Tips for a More Enjoyable Moving Day
The worst part of downsizing is often moving day. Downsizing families do not always have a problem cleaning out and making plans for a new home. They don’t always experience the pain that comes with leaving behind a home they’ve lived in for decades. But nearly every family we’ve worked...
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