Home staging prepares properties for sale by furnishing and decorating them to appeal to buyers, helping properties sell faster and often for higher prices, in exchange for staging fees (typically furniture rental plus design and labor).
Log in to followWe run a small service crew and I've been pricing out adding staging as a second line, mostly for two flippers we already do work for. Called our broker to ask what would change o…
The lease is 2,400 square feet at 1,900 a month, three year term, personal guarantee, plus about 400 a month in utilities and insurance based on what the landlord's other tenant t…
Builder client, six detached spec homes, 1,850 to 2,400 sf, delivering in three pairs roughly five months apart. Target list is 420k to 465k. I underwrite the sales side and stagi…
I've been building a comp file while I look for my first couple of deals, and I can't get the two claims about staging to sit in the same model. Claim one is price. Staged houses…
Getting quotes for a friend's listing and the spread is wide. One stager said $3,900 for a vacant three bed, two bath, about 1,700 square feet, covering the main living room, dini…
Spec build, 3,100 sq ft, finishing in about five weeks. Stager came back with the agreement and I'm stuck on a few clauses before I sign. Terms: 9,800 install for 11 spaces, 90 da…
This is the first thing I've ever sold and I don't know what staging actually is beyond furniture appearing in photos. The property is a 1970s three bed ranch, about 1,450 square…
Full gut on a 2,100 sf two story, 148k of scope, and I was chasing a listing date because the agent had a broker open on the calendar. Punch list was at maybe 30 items when I let…
Sold a side-by-side duplex last quarter, 1970s, both units 2/1, one tenant-occupied on a lease with 8 months left and one vacant since a move-out in the fall. Basis was 196k, I li…
Closed this out last month, still annoyed, so writing it down while the invoices are open. The deal: 3/2 ranch, 1,410 sf, bought at 168k off a wholesaler, 61k in renovation, all-i…
Trying to understand staging as something to put money into rather than something to buy, and the whole thing seems to live or die on inventory turns. Here's the model I built and…
I built a sheet trying to answer whether staging is worth it on the kind of house I'm about to list, and I've now spent more hours on the sheet than the decision is worth, which i…
I do trim and cabinet work and lately two of my flipper clients have started asking me to "make it show ready" after punch list, which so far has meant me borrowing my sister in l…
Planning four flips next year in a fairly narrow band, 180k to 260k, mostly 1,300 to 1,700 sq ft. Every quote I get for staging lands between 3,200 and 3,900 all in, so call it 14…
Working through whether staging earns its keep on a resale and the arithmetic feels too easy, which usually means I've left something out. List price $415,000. Stager quoted $3,50…
First house I ever sold, small three bed, and I wanted to do it properly so I hired a stager. I told her my budget was around 2,000 and she asked which rooms mattered most. I said…
An agent sent me a stager's agreement to look at for a house a family member is selling, and I ended up reading the whole thing twice because the fee structure is stranger than I…
Closing on my first flip in three weeks and staging is the one number in my sheet I keep changing every time I open it. House is 1,580 sq ft, three bed two bath, in a subdivision…
I'm finally selling a 1,450 square foot ranch on an infill lot I bought eight years ago for an assemblage that never came together. Vacant, clean, 1968 kitchen, nothing wrong with…
Every one of the small flippers whose deals I underwrite hands me the staging number in a different place. One puts it in the rehab budget as a line item next to appliances. One p…