If you’ve toyed with the idea of becoming a home stager, you probably already have the decorating talent it takes to make this your new career.
You don’t need a background in interior design to become an expert home stager. If you have a knack for arranging a room’s furniture to make it universally appealing, you have the basic skill required to decorate a person’s house to sell.
There are a few other items that will help you determine whether home staging is the right fit for you. See if any of the following statements sound familiar:
- I get asked for decorating advice all the time by friends and family members.
- I am addicted to HGTV.
- I don’t have much to invest in a business start-up.
- I can’t pass an open house sign without going in to look around. When I do, I might as well have a bubble over my head that says, “What were they thinking?!” I can hardly resist the urge to rearrange the furniture to make it show better.
- I want to have variety and fun in my workday.
- I’ve always wanted to be able to earn money from my creativity.
- There is nothing left to decorate in my home, and I feel the urge to move so that I’ll have a new decorating project.
If you have the talent and the desire, all you need is the business know-how to start your own successful home staging business.
Please don’t let the current economic news squash your dream of becoming a home stager. This business is surprisingly inexpensive to start. You can run a home staging business from a home office, and you don’t need any inventory or a store front. The only equipment you need besides a computer and telephone is a tape measure and a camera. How much more basic can you get?
People will always be moving, which means there will always be a need for home stagers.
Yes, some owners are losing their homes, but others just need to move because of the usual reasons, like job transfers, a growing family needing more space, retirement, or divorce. In this economic environment, they need stagers even more because all their agents can recommend are continual cuts to their asking prices.
As a home stager, you are a beacon of hope to beleaguered home sellers. They stand to make more money by hiring a home stager, and it costs them far less than a price reduction.
Instead of using up your energy worrying about the state of the nation and what will happen to your future, take hold of the reins and steer your own course. You can take advantage of the current economy and the slow real estate market to build a very successful business that will serve your creative and financial needs.
When you’re ready to take the next step, visit StagingDiva.com. You can be a home stager if you have ten hours to spend listening to our training program. There’s no fluff or untested theories here; it’s absolutely what you need to know based on what I’ve learned the hard way building my own staging business since 2002.
In the next post, I’m spilling the beans and sharing the truth about home staging accreditations.
Debra Gould, The Staging Diva®
President, Six Elements Inc. Home Staging
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