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vacant staging: Stage Smarter: Selecting Inventory for Vacant Home Staging - 07/23/07 08:38 AM
Ask any new stager what their favorite part of owning a staging business is and they will answer "Shopping!" Ask that same stager a year later and they will answer "Anything but shopping!"
While initially the shopping aspect of staging may seem like a dream job- you actually get paid to go buy items for peoples homes- the reality is that selecting inventory is a very serious task and at times can be quite stressful and overwhelming.
Shopping is much more complicated than running over to your local TJMaxx and throwing things in a cart. As a staging business owner there are … (45 comments)

vacant staging: Home Staging 101: Day in the life of a stager- this ain't for the faint of heart! - 03/07/07 08:37 PM
While before and after pictures are certainly glamorous its the $#%^** in between that they don't teach you about in staging classes. I am writing this for various reasons:
 1. Some Realtors and Home Owners think they can do this on their own or want to!
2. Some clients think we charge too much for what we do- think again!
3. Some people think anyone can be a stager- read below and then decide
Well.... this one goes out to all of your Stagers out that will read this and relate. This is ALL TRUE- well a compilation of truths!
Thursday:
3:30 pm. The rental furniture company has just … (50 comments)

vacant staging: Home Staging 101: Working with Furniture Rental Companies-what is the future? - 03/07/07 07:24 AM
This post is an add on to the last two posts I wrote about purchasing furniture vs renting furniture and growing your inventory. I have had a lot of great feed back from those blogs but also a lot of questions about rental companies, their terms and their selection.
I think it is important first to discuss the relationship that stagers can form with rental companies and how it can help them to grow their businesses. The first step is to define what your needs are. I personally do not own my own furniture. I rely on my rental companies to … (15 comments)

vacant staging: Home Staging: A Pennsylvania Builder's Best Friend and Marketing Edge - 03/05/07 06:52 PM
What do you get when you combine 1 model home, 1 real estate team, and one staging team?
5 homes sold in under 2 months including the model!
Home staging does not only benefit home sellers and Realtors. Home Builders in our area are using staging more and more as a marketing tool to sell their properties. I recently worked with a builder in the suburbs of Philadelphia to stage his model home. He had never used staging before and quite honestly was skeptical if it would be effective. He admitted to me during the estimate that since the market had … (8 comments)

 
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