Home Staging in Slow Economy – Staging Diva Business Report

Home staging is a growing industry in this slow economy and real estate market. Learn how you can take advantage and make money as a home stager.

Home staging lets you have your cake and eat it too

Not everyone who has the desire to start a home staging business has the luxury of quitting their full time job to do so. Some people enjoy their day jobs but feel they’d like to use a staging business as a sort of creative outlet while they continue to work full time. The good news [...]

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How will the current economy affect your staging business?

This time last year, I released a special report called, “Can I grow a home staging business in a depressed economy?” with the intention of helping aspiring stagers who were feeling defeated by friends, family members and negative news headlines. Thousands of you downloaded that free report but between now and then there have been [...]

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Home Stagers, realize your own power in real estate

Last week I wrote a post called, “Stagers, don’t let real estate agents discourage you”. I was motivated to write it because for the 7 years I’ve been staging homes I’ve been running into real estate agents who: don’t understand why an empty, disorganized or ugly home is harder to sell list it as is, [...]

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Healthy Canadian real estate market looks great for home stagers

Last week, I discussed how home sales in the United States are at their highest level since 2007, but things are also looking up in the Canadian real estate market. Though the economy in Canada has not been hit as hard as its US counterpart, the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) will be adjusting its [...]

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Record Level US Home Sales Bodes Well for Home Stagers

Earlier this week, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported that sales of existing homes are at their highest level in over two years which bodes well for home stagers. It is believed that Obama’s $8,000 tax credit for qualified first-time home buyers has been a driving force behind these high sales levels. The tax credit [...]

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No one needs to know you’re moonlighting as a home stager

One thing many aspiring home stagers have in common is that they need to continue working while they start up their home staging business on a part-time basis. In an ideal world, everyone could quit their job and work on starting their business full time, but this is not an ideal world and this isn’t [...]

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Staging Diva Graduate Offers Tips in Washington Post

Staging Diva Graduate Patricia Ebrahimi of Show-Smart! Home Staging in Washington DC is the featured home staging expert in the Washington Post providing her real estate staging tips to home sellers. Patricia, who started her company in 2005 writes, “Things are great for in DC for staging! Five of the homes I staged in May [...]

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Staging Diva Graduate Shows Australian TV Viewers That Staging Works

Congratulations to Anne Gunson of Home Staging by Anne who is featured on an upcoming TV segment of Australia’s A Current Affair. The show followed Anne from her initial home staging consultation right through to the final completion of staging the property before it went on the real estate market. The home sellers were also [...]

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Calm your fears about starting a home staging business

Everyone said I was crazy when I quit my high-level job and started my first business, a marketing consulting firm, in the fall of 1989-just at the start of the 1990s recession. I knew that with change comes opportunity and that there is much less security in working for others than in working for yourself. [...]

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Survive tough economic times by living within your means

Staying out of debt is easier said than done but it’s one of the keys to financial survival as you grow your home staging business. It’s also where the old adage “live within your means” comes in. Start by creating a monthly budget-and then stick to it. Set up a way to continually track and [...]

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Sellers need their homes to stand out in a flooded market

In a slow real estate market like this, it’s not unusual to see several houses for sale on the same street. Desperate home sellers are scrambling for ways to make their homes stand out from the competition. By decorating a home to be more appealing to buyers, home stagers offer the perfect solution. Buyers have [...]

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