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 followFull 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…
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…
No deals of my own yet, so when a friend listed her place I offered to handle the staging as practice. Figured I'd learn something and end up with inventory for later. Spent 1,900…
I stopped taking per-job staging quotes in the spring. Four flips since then on one flat arrangement with one stager, so I'll put the numbers down. Before: three houses in the 240…
I've been poking at the service side for a while and kept getting stuck on the same wall: staging means owning furniture, owning furniture means a warehouse, and I have neither. S…