Hi Zoe,

How are you doing ?
Thank you for your team's work, and here's the good news !

We started showing on Oct 2, and accepted offers on Oct 7.
Three offers came in on that day, and we ended up selling at 104% of the listed price.

It's noteworthy that there had been a lower penthouse in the same building with more spacious interior and an extra den in the market a couple of months ago, but didn't sell even at a price lower than our sale price. Also, there are many condo units in my neighbourhood selling for $450k to $500k, however many of them have been listed for months and there are very few actual sales. So it is a good illustration that staging does make a difference ! You did exactly what is needed !

The eager buyer is very motivated, she removed the condition on the Status Certificate, and told me that she really loves the apearance of my home !

Thank you again for your wonderful job ! Now I have the peace of mind to move to my new home !

-- Tony Lee

"The truth is that originally I was not a huge fan of home staging.  When I first heard about it, I frankly thought that it was a bit of a waste of money, in an already tight economy and with all the costs involved in selling your home, it was something I thought I could ill afford and would only add to the already inflated cost of selling your home.  Plus, I thought I could do it myself.

Enter Zoe Zhao.  I was fortunate to see some of her work first-hand when a relative of mine used her services to stage her home for sale.  And her staging services came highly recommended by my relative, after the home staging netted her  a record number of showings for her home (over 100 in a 4 week period!).

Based on the recommendation, we decided to have the home consultation with Zoe and find out what would needed to be done to make our home sellable.  Because of our tight timetable and the fact that the work  needed to be done would have taken too long to perform ourselves, we decided to contract Zoe for her services.

This was by far the best decision we made when selling our home.  Zoe came in and took care of everything; from the cleaning of the property, making the necessary fixes, and finally bringing the furniture of the correct shape and sizes to fit perfectly in the empty spaces.

The end result was a sight to behold.  In one case, the room that was transformed from a study to a third bedroom was unrecognizable to even the contractors that worked on that room a few days before.  The house was transformed from a ordinary abode to something out of a magazine.  Our real estate agent was so impressed and pleased, and remarked that ‘you just added about 20K to the value of this home’.  Without her, our selling price would have definitely been at least 10-15K lower.

When the listing came out, all of our friends who saw the pictures of the home said how well the house ‘showed’.  Shortly after going on the market, another home came up that was larger than ours and had a few more features.  But our home was still the better choice because of how well it showed, and all was thanks to Zoe.  When the home was finally sold (in 2 weeks, 7 offers), even the buyer remarked on how well the house looked, and asked if it was staged.  He also asked for her card because he wanted to use her services for an family member; he was that impressed.

The fact is that home staging has become almost a standard and in most cases a must for selling your home.  You are definitely putting yourself at a disadvantage if your house is not staged in this market, when your competition have used staging services.  And it does increase the value of your home and speed up the selling process.

Zoe is the consummate professional; she was very detailed in the suggestions she made, and was very firm with the suggestions and what needed to be changed with the house.  She took a lot of pride in her work, and was excited as we were (if not more) with the finished product.  I highly recommend the services of ZoeIT Inc."

Regards

----Garnett

"Hi Zoe,

We have excellent response from the buyers. There are a lot's of buyers line up for presenting the offers. As I set the offer presentation day on this coming Sunday. I'll let you know the result.

Thank you very much for the help. You and your team really did a good job!

-----10 days after-----

Thank you very much for your team's professional services in staging my recent listing in the Richmond Hill area.

My client and I really appreciate your prompt service in a very limited time frame.

We got TEN offers in ONE week and SOLD for 8% more than the asking price.

Thank you once again for your team's best service.

Regards,"

-- Susanna Lau, Realtor, Homelife Gold Pacific Realty Inc. Brokerage.

"Hello Zoe

Again, thanks for the wonderful work that you performed on our house. The transformation was amazing!! The contractor came by yesterday to clean up some work and he could not believe that the second bedroom was the same room we had before. And Paul Tate (our real estate agent) was especially pleased with the work. He said we should have a good chance of receiving some competitive offers.

Anyway, if I don't speak to you before Wednesday, have yourself a safe flight and an enjoyable and relaxing vacation.

Thanks"

-- Garnett and Georgette

"Thanks again for the understanding, respect and professionalism you demonstrated to me as well as those great ideas you offered to me throughout the project - it did save me tons of time searching around...

Thanks again!

Wish you all the best with your personal life and your career as well!"

-- Serene

"两年前，我们的condotownhouse由于光线不好，墙的颜色等原因，两次挂牌，在市场上历时四个月都没有卖掉，期间身心倍受折磨。由于新买的房子已经closing,旧房只好用来出租.

09年5月，房子再次拿出来的时候状况很差，有很多损坏，我们请了ZOE做homestage,仅仅一个星期的时间，ZOE的专业团队就完成了从装修、清洁到装饰美化的全部过程，房子变得温馨优雅、宽敞明亮，放盘仅4天，就以我们满意的价格售出，与两年前比真是天壤之别。如果没有ZOE的专业服务，我们真的没有再次卖房的信心。"

-- KEVIN & VICKY

"Hi Zoe,

We are extremely happy with your staging service. You provided end to end service/solution. Your team was very professional and friendly. You brought beauty and happy to the house. The house looked stunning after the staging. The house was sold for 96% of asking price on the open house day, which was the 2nd day on listing, with multiple offers. My friends like the decoration of the house too.

As we discussed, you will be interior designer for our new house. We are looking forward to create another beautiful house."

-- Sandy and Shining

"Zoe is one of my very best business partners. I admire her enthusiasm, attention to details, extremely high standard of workmanship, and ability to work under pressure to accomplish any project within short period of time and limited budget.

Without her expertise in home staging, my listing on Robintide Rd. would not have sold in this slow market. We all know the market has taken a turn, her service is a must have if you want to have the property sold and for a good price.

I would not hesitate to recommend her to all my clients and colleagues. I congratulate her for another job well done.

Wishing her every success in 2009."

-- Keith Wong

-- Royal LePage Your community Realty Inc.

"Hi, Zoe

We have put our house on sale in September 2008, at the time the real estate market started to decline. From September 2008 to February 2009, we had many visitors for our house on Corby Road in Markham but not one offer.

Our house was missing the wow factor required to close a sale in an almost inexistant market while over 100 houses were listed for sale in the same price range in Markham.

I met with Zoe at the end of January and after her evaluation, we signed a contract with her for our property. She did all the work for the staging quickly and within the deadlines promised.

We put our newly staged house back on the market on February 12 and we got a firm offer from a buyer 10 days later. In this recession, the staging did not help increase the selling price of the house but however, it surely helped close the sale quickly. Since we owned a new house since December 2008, we appreciate greatly not being financially responsible for 2 houses.

I would recommend her work for anyone having a problem to sell their house.

Regards"

-- Sylvie Corbeil Peloquin

"Dear Zoe,

How can we ever thank you enough for the amazing miracle you performed on our humble home?

Operating under a strict deadline, we needed our well-maintained but uninspiring home sold as quickly as possible, for the most money possible, but how to accomplish?

How could we afford the professional staging our house so desperately required? We were well aware that we were competing against bigger neighbouring homes with more expensive upgrades, in a slowing market. We had no interlock driveway, no granite and stainless steel kitchen, no nice furniture.

But then, at what seemed like the last minute, Zoeit Décor entered the picture. Like a scene from a magical fairytale, this Cinderella-plain property was transformed from hopelessly cluttered to dazzlingly elegant in almost no time at all. It was unrecognizable!

If it were not for you and your team there would have been no way this house could have sold for $28,000 over asking in 9 days, with over 12 offers! And who knows how many more dozens wanted our home but were too shy to bid? There were nearly 100 showings and the very first viewer was anxious to put an offer on the spot!

Thank you for an incredibly professional job!"

-- P&F Gandolfi

"Hi Zoe,

We are so glad to have you taking care of the staging of our house. Your team are very professional, organize and experience. We are amazed how you guys did it. The outcome of the staging turn our house into a true model home. You are able to listen to our concern and meet our budget. It was a stressful process to sell the house, and especially at the point of the housing market is slowing down, we really cannot imagine how we can make it without your help. Our house in the area was probably one of the last one to be listed on the market, and the 2nd highest price, but our house was sold first in the area and with 97% of the asking price, and the most important of all, the house was sold in 3 weeks. Isn't that amazing!!

You and your team turn the stressful process of selling the house becomes a wonderful one, thanks so much!!

Wishing you have a Merry Christmas and Very Happy New Year."

-- Benjamin & Jenny, Home Owner, Markham

"Hi zoe

i'm very grateful for your professional opinion on home staging, with your help i was able to sell the house faster with a great value. Thank you very much !"

-- Jackie PHUONG CHAU

"认识Zoe是在她经常登的地产周刊的专栏上，感觉她很有品味和见解。自己也是HGTV的常客，看Zoe的专栏觉得跟HGTV上很多的实例子也很符合，自己开始想要卖房子的时候，第一件事情就是想找Zoe作个评估。

Zoe来了后提出很多建议。我们采纳了换掉旧的橱柜，铺地板，刷墙和换灯。

现在房子已经卖了，回想起来，她选择的颜色非常的match, 橱柜的颜色match 墙的颜色，地板的颜色match沙发的颜色，窗帘，灯具，整体的效果装修后感觉焕然一新。真的没有想到20年的老房子，花小小的钱能够装饰的如此温暖，我们自己都后悔没有早些请她做设计，早一些装修自己也好享受一番，现在全是为别人做嫁衣。特别是墙的颜色，第一天装修师傅刷了一半时，我看了吓了一跳，看惯了白色，看别的颜色觉的不是那么回事，全部装修完工后，再一看这颜色真是漂亮、温馨、优雅，还跟白色的门和窗成为明显的对比。专业就是专业，让我如何也不会选这种颜色。

Zoe的另外一个服务我非常的满意，她带我去一些展示会 wholesale, inventory sale 去买东西，虽然我付她shopping费用，但是wholesale, inventory sale价格很低，而且她知道买什么样的东西，我们去后，用不着左想右想，拿起来就走，省去了很多的时间。

她的cleaning service 非常的专业，我的炉头经过她找的人清洁后跟新的一模一样，我的卖方地产经纪建议我换炉头，Zoe说先找人清洁后再说，果然清洁后真的不需要换了，这一项也省去我不少钱。

房子上市后很快就卖掉了，而且价格也是我们满意的。我们也很满意Zoe的服务。我自己的体验，想又快又好价格的卖房子，一定要找专业的人士个做个建议，其实小小的钱花在刷墙，清洁，窗帘，灯具，重新布置家具上，整个房子的效果就决然不同，卖的价格也会高出很多。"

-- Kathy

“ I didn’t know much about Home Staging, yet I am very impressed by the detailed work of your team. You put your heart, dedication, and thoroughness towards my house as if it were your own.

As a result, we got 7 offers on the 2nd day and the house was sold 105% of the asking price. This all took place when my husband was out of the country. With my newly born baby only 8 days old I wonder how I would survive this tough selling process without your help.”

- Yan, Owner, Richmond Hill, ON

"Hi Zoe,

Just a quick short note to thank you for your wonderful staging job of my recent listing. The property was sold 3% more than the asking price within 5 days.

Your prompt and professional home staging service are greatly appreciated by the seller and us agents!

Best of luck and once again thank you."

- Esabel Hung, Home Owner, Scarborough

"Dear Zoe,

I would like to thank you for your work in staging my recent listing near Bayview Ave. and Major Mackenzie Drive in Richmond Hill.

I appreciate the professional services you and your team provided. I am impressed with your friendly and helpful attitude as well as your attention to details in every step of the process. You were very patient and responsive with the requests and questions from me and my client. You were also willing to go the extra mile to make the seller happy. I like the fact that you were flexible and good in scheduling various appointments with your team that come on time and do a good job. It was a very enjoyable experience working with you.

My client and I were very glad that we got multiple offers for the house on the first day of offer presentation and sold it at over our asking price with no conditions! The effect of staging the house really highlighted the attractive features of the property and transformed it to a model home that people love to live in. Thank you for your professional work and I would recommend your service to my future clients.

I wish you every success in your business!"

-Sam Liu, Realtor, Living Realty Inc.

"Thanks for your team's word done in my house.

Before your staging, some people came to see my house, but no one put an offer; After your staging, you changed my house to a model home, and I am very confident that my house will be sold soon, and it is true - its sold in two weeks.

Right now, the market is slowing down, without your help, I can not imagine how I can sell it. Thanks again!"

- David Liu, Home owner, North York

"I was referred to relist the house after it'd been on the market for three months represented by another real estate brokerage.

The house is 36 years old and vacant. It needed a lot work to bring it back to life. That's the moment Zoe and her team stepped in and did a fantastic job. They transformed a vague empty house into a vivid rich living environment in three days!

The result just falls into place: we sold the house for the historically highest price in that neighborhood, the second day as it went onto market. Amazing, eh? ZOE IT, SOLD IT, it's so true!".

- Sam Jia, Realtor, RE/MAX Realtron Realty Inc.

"As a very busy realtor, I want to offer my clients the best service in the shortest time frame, and with the best result.

ZOEIT helped me understand this and the listing was sold on Open House night, for $30,000.00 more than expectation! The whole process is smooth and trouble free. Staging is a must: it helps a nice house sold for more, a poor conditioned house sold easier, and motivated sellers to realize their goal. Home Staging is like a magic hand that can turn things around!"

- Steven Sun. , Broker, Global Link Realty Inc.

“We first heard about Home Staging from a TV program and later heard about ZOEIT INC. from our friends. We decided to try them out to set our home before the listing. The house was sold in 3 weeks and was sold for $40,000.00 more than our neighbor’s! The buyer even wants to buy our staged furniture. It is simply unbelievable!”

- Q. Huang, Home Owner, Markham, ON.

“Thanks to ZOEIT’s service for my investment property. It’s sold for much more than what I expected. It is amazing to see how ZOEIT’s design can make such a big difference. My property was sold in 3 days and I made $60,000.00 in 5 weeks! I will definitely have ZOEIT INC. work for my next project.”

- Kevin Guo. Investor, Scarborough, ON.

“ZOEIT INC. was able to convince my client and replaced the heavily religious environment with proper furniture. And we ended with a number of offers. The sold price is the highest in the neighborhood. I say if you want a good surprise, you have to “ZOE” it! I highly recommend ZOEIT INC. to all my clients.”

- Sam Jia. Realtor, RE/MAX Realtron Realty Inc.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you! My listing has been on the market for almost 3 months without an offer. Without your help, I have no idea when it would be sold. Your staging service is the key in getting 2 offers within 5 days and for the price we want. You understand our circumstances and needs. You get job done fast and allow the house back on the market again in no time."

- Ellen T. Zhueng, Realtor, 21 Century Leading Edge Realty Inc.

"Thank you for the Staging service for my client. Lately in this neighborhood, there was a gun fight incidence. I was really concerned whether the house can be sold. Your professional touch made the house comes very much alive in a way my client would never feel possible. The most important thing is: the house was sold in 3 days! We all feel relieved!"

- Tony Song, Realtor, HomeLife/Landmark Realty Inc