Become a Home Stager - Start a Home Staging Business

become a home stager

Start Your Own Home Staging Business
Get Paid to Stage Homes for Sale

Imagine having a high-paying career that lets you use your creativity and flair for decorating to help people sell homes more quickly for higher prices.

Welcome to the exciting world of home staging!

About Home Staging

Home staging (also known as real estate enhancement) is the process of making a house attractive to potential buyers. As a home stager, you will help home builders, real estate agents, and home owners sell homes more quickly.

"There are literally thousands and thousands of homes on the market, so there's plenty of business for home stagers to go around."
     -   Lori Matzke, President
         Center Stage Home Inc.
         Minneapolis

As a home stager you will be hired to emphasize the best features of a property while improving or downplaying the less attractive features.

Unlike interior decorating, home staging is about neutralizing décor and removing a client's identity from a home, so that it appeals to buyers of all tastes and preferences.

When you start a home staging business, you might choose to be a home staging consultant, giving people ideas to help them stage their home, or you might do hands-on home staging yourself.

Why Start Your Own Home Staging Business

According to Entrepreneur magazine, home staging is a hot business. The demand for home stagers is growing as more homeowners learn about home staging from popular TV shows such as Designed to Sell on HGTV and Sell This House on A&E.

Few careers offer so many benefits. Home staging allows you to express your creativity using the latest trends in interior design and home fashions. As a home stager, you'll meet interesting people as you set up beautiful spaces in some of the most gorgeous and expensive homes in your area.

When you start a home staging business, you could earn a starting salary of $35 to $75 per hour or more and enjoy the freedom of being your own boss. You can work from home and you can start now!

As long as you have the desire, you can become a home stager. No special education or experience is necessary to break into this career and succeed.

If getting paid to provide home staging services sounds like the career of your dreams, the FabJob Guide to Become a Home Stager is for you! In this e-book you will discover how you can become a home stager and start your own successful home staging business.

This guide offers insider tips and expert career advice from successful home stagers. It covers topics of vital importance to anyone who wants to become a home stager and start a home staging business, including:

Getting Ready

How to develop the skills you will need as a home stager
Information about training programs in home staging
Ways to teach yourself about home staging
Getting design experience through volunteer work
Jobs that can help prepare you for a career as a home stager
How to be certified as a professional home stager

How to Stage a Home

How to assess a client's needs (includes a list of questions to ask)
Understanding how to assess the current design so you can recommend the best options for home staging

Design elements like color, lighting, space, shape, lines, textures, and patterns
Design principles like balance, scale, proportion, focal points, rhythm, and harmony
Room elements like furniture, walls, flooring, accessories and lighting
Room shapes and ceiling heights

How to do a home assessment (including how to do a walkthrough and prepare a report)
Deciding on a theme or concept
Home organizing and de-cluttering

Typical trouble areas
Organizing techniques
Handling personal items (plus advice on what to do with collectible items)
Storage options

Cleaning and repairs

Typical home interior trouble spots
How to mask damage that's too costly to repair
Creating "curb appeal" with attractive yards and home exteriors (plus tips on what to do about unkempt neighboring homes)

Staging a room

Feng shui and other design approaches
Arranging furniture
Adding accessories and creating "vignettes"
Using decorating props
Working with walls, window coverings, and floors
Hanging and arranging artwork
Room by room advice
Techniques for staging vacant homes

Creating a positive feeling or ambiance with temperature, lighting, smells, music, and more

Starting a Home Staging Business

How to start a home staging business for as little money as possible
Choosing and registering a company name
Links to all the information you need about the "business" side of things (business plans, insurance, financing, and more)
How to set up your home office including

Checklist of tools and supplies needed for home staging
Where to get home staging props

Types of subcontractors you'll need to build relationships with as a home stager (plus how to manage work crews or assistants)
Pricing your services (includes sample rates for home staging projects)
Advice on scheduling and other helpful tips for keeping your business organized
Identifying potential home staging clients
How to market yourself effectively as a home stager including

Where and how to advertise your home staging business
How to get free publicity
How to develop strategic partnerships and get referrals from other businesses

How to do a client consultation and close the deal
How to get paid (including how to get a deposit)

PLUS, you will discover:

A variety of other services you can get paid to provide
Advice for handling unexpected situations
What to include in a portfolio
Valuable resources including professional associations that can provide support and help you grow your business
Samples of what you need to become a home stager and run your home staging business, including:

Sample home assessment form
Sample subcontractor job summary sheet
Sample invoice
Sample financial planning worksheets for a home stager
Sample letter of agreement
Sample contract for services
Sample client change order form

And more! (including free updates)

You can have all this and more for an incredible price. It can cost hundreds of dollars to take courses on starting a business, and chances are they will not include specific information about starting a home staging business. The FabJob Guide to Become a Home Stager contains some of the best business advice you could get from other sources, and more.

The information in this guide can save you many hours of research, help you avoid some costly mistakes, and give you information you need to become a home stager and start your own home staging business.

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You will earn back the price of the guide your first day in business. And with this guide you can become a home stager and start your own home staging business much more quickly and cost-effectively.

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"I found the FabJob Guide to Become a Home Stager to be extremely informative and helpful. It goes into every detail about running a business from advertising and marketing to building your portfolio. This type of information for someone just starting out is priceless! It is also packed full of resources and websites to go to for additional information. It is by far the best $30 I have ever spent! Thank you!"
        - Treva Garcia
          Hobbs, NM
"I am glad that I purchased this guide. It was worth the money I spent for it. It has been useful providing me the information that I need to start my own home staging business. The guide goes on in detail explaining client consultations, what to expect, what the clients expect from you and how to make a client presentation. The guide also details the steps on how to stage a home, how to market your business, creating a portfolio and samples on how to price your services which is very important. This is a guide that I will refer to throughout the development of my business and career."
        - Aishah Coleman
          Bronx, NY
"Before reading the guide I was curious about getting into the field, but after reading the guide I am CONFIDENT! This guide answered every question I had and provided information I would have never thought of. I am meeting with my business partner this week to lay the plans to our new business and I have FabJob to thank for gathering what I needed to know in one reference. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!"
        - Natasha Liburd
          Loganville, GA

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"This is the most comprehensive and realistic book I've read on becoming a professional Home Stager. I wish this book had been available when I was starting out in the industry!"
- Charlene Storozuk, Regional Vice President, Canada - Real Estate Staging Association

"This inspiring and thorough book is a great resource tool for both aspiring home stagers and those who have been in business for years."
- Julie Dana, co-author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Staging Your Home to Sell

Do you want to sell your own home?

Home staging can help you avoid losing money on your house sale. Home staging can prevent having a house sit on the market too long and prevent lowering your asking price.

This valuable insider guide will give you expert advice of home staging techniques used by professional home stagers to have a home sell for a higher price, have more offers, or sell faster than it would without home staging.

"Home staging is about changing lives one house, family, and real estate market at a time! Unlike the years I spent working in corporate America, I wake up every morning and love going to work!"
- Jason Maxwell
Equity Enhancers Home Staging and Design Company and President of Dallas Chapter of The International Association of Home Staging Professionals
Jason is one of the home staging experts who give advice in this FabJob guide

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Cedar City, UT

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Fort Myers, FL

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- Debra Gould
The Staging Diva®
President, Six Elements Inc.

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Springfield, VA

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Shawnee, KS

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Decatur, IL

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Toronto, ON

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