I'm looking for a few good stagers!

I only wish you were here-your work is soooo awesome!!!  Care to move to the Bay Area??  hee,hee

Bryce ~ It's hard to believe that stager didn't follow up with you!  Your work is spectacular and if you were in Portland, I'd love to refer my clients to you.  Did you happen to check here on A/R for any stagers in your area?

Wow Bryce, that stager sure doesn't sound too eager for business.  I wish you were located in my neck of the woods - I would love to set up a mutual referral system with you.  Your work is spectacular!  Great idea of Maureen's to check AR for stagers in your area.

How about moving south to beautiful Oregon . . . still the beautiful northwest but less rain!!  The professional photographer we use is way to busy all the time. . .

 I can understand not having promotional materials in the staged home, some owners/realtors do not want stager materials distracting from the home, but no website or promotional materials -- sounds like the stager has talent but needs to join active rain and learn how to run a business! 

Bryce - What a kind gesture on your part to a) want to recommend a home stager and b) your offer to create a web site.  How unfortunate that those you reached out to didn't have marketing materials.  In this day and age, it's so critically important.  Perhaps those that don't have those materials are truly not interested in their own success.  I don't know and honestly don't get it.

In the interim, if you need help packing for your move to Atlanta, let me know and I'll be there in a heart beat (smile).

Kathy

WOW!! I wish you lived near me!! I would love to find a photographer to partner with, especially if they were as good as you. Good luck on your search :)

Thats craziness, what a great oppurtunity they missed out on!

I am sure that you will find someone in your area. Stagers seem to pop up everywhere. for some all it takes is a weekend class and poof youre a certified professional stager.  it is sad but there are far too many hobbyists in this field.  that would help to explain the lack of marketing materials and the inability to follow up . some folks are just decorators with a certificate and not true business people.

Oh Bryce - I find myself wishing, probably for the hundredth time, that we lived near each other. 

Obviously this is a lesson learned by all, mostly what NOT to do. But as others have pointed out I'm sure you will be able to find a professional stager in your area by AR or www.stagedhomes.com

I would move on from that person, in the long run they won't be worth it.

Hi Bryce,  Your photography is fabulous!  I'm sorry you didn't get a positive response from that stager. 

I am near you (in the Edmonds area) and would welcome referrals.  Currently we have properties staged in Redmond, Lynnwood, Edmonds, Shoreline and Everett.  We primarily stage in the North King/South Snohomish County areas and have inventory to stage about 20 homes simulanteously.  We also stage occupied homes using the sellers furniture.  Please feel free to check out our website at www.sistersredesign.com for examples of our work.

I really can't understand how someone in the BUSINESS of marketing (stager) wouldn't have a website... let alone be interested in having you set one up for FREE!

There is something so funamentally wrong with that!

Hi Bryce, I find it unbelievable as well.

Staging is all about marketing. If you have a marketing background it is soooo much easier to get your staging business off the ground and rolling.

I too would love if you moved near my area. If ever you are up Toronto , Ontario way give a call and we can meet up. I always have homes that you can photograph for me. :)

Bryce-  It 's hard to say, but maybe this stager is just starting out in the business and maybe got a little scared of the possibilities that your offer could bring. 

It is sad though because either way, when a door opens, we shouldn't be afraid to walk through it.  I wish there were more like you around my neck of the woods (Sacramento burbs), I would have jumped at the offer.  I hope this is a wake-up call to others reading your post that these opportunities don't come often.

Bryce,

What a nice thing to offer, many good things will return your way help accepted or not.  On that note....

California's great, really really, You would have to share a room with my son, but I am a really good cook!  

Line up a 1/2 dozen jobs and I'll fly out there to do them :-)

I hope you found someone. Your work is gorgeous. I know of a downtown Seattle agent that has a stager she loves. I can ask her and pass the information along.

Aloha -my thoughts and prayers are with you. May your new journey find light instead of darkness

That stager people didn't follow up with you!??!!??

Wow, crazy. Everyone likes free staff....not to grab the opportunity to be helped in such graceful way?

it is strange, at least.