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Done in a Day Stages Local $4.495M Presidential Mansion in Advance of Market Re-Entry

Nixon (Ford, Wilson, Taft, JFK, LBJ . . .) Slept Here
Before or After White House, Presidents Were Just Locals
By Kirstin Downey
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 16, 2007; Page C01

Elegance and sophistication in the heart of Wesley Heights. This magnificent home is located on a quiet, private cul-de-sac in prestigious Wesley Heights and has had an incredible transformation! Once a Vice Presidential residence, this sophisticated English fieldstone Tudor home backs to Glover Archibold Park on over one-half acre.

Presidential houses might have more allure than ordinary homes, but they are susceptible to the same real estate market vagaries. The Nixon and Ford houses have attracted a lot of attention but no solid purchase offers.

The Nixon house, at 4308 Forest Lane NW, went up for sale in October for $4.75 million. In June, the Whitakers took it off the market and renovated it. They have just put it back on the block, this time at $4.495 million, with an open house Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m.

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Cooling Market Lifts Lid on Old Debate
By Sandra Fleishman

Done in a Day, a relatively new entrant in the staging business, opened 2 1/2 years ago in Northwest Washington and has seen business double in the first five months of this year because of the cooling market and the heated-up competition, said Caroline Carter, president and chief executive. And she said her firm has successfully turned houses that were sitting on the market for months into open-house sales.

Carter has five design assistants, two warehouses full of furnishings and a list of workers to call on to revitalize houses going on the market. A typical three-bedroom house that needs a fresh-me-up could cost $2,000, Carter said. A vacant house of that size might run $8,000. Carter recently staged two vacant houses with about 6,000 square feet of emptiness at a charge of about $11,000 each. Sounds high, but just providing the lighting at each house took about 50 lamps.

One of Carter's customers, Patrice Pisinski, said staging helped move her three-story townhouse in Northwest closer to sale. "She basically kind of cleaned it up a little bit and rearranged it because I've got two kids and we needed to show that it had more usable space," Pisinski said. "I understand there were like 40 people that came to the open house, and we got an offer on the following Monday.

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