How to Decide to Start a Home Staging Business
Tune in to any home and garden network and you'll find a wide variety of shows teaching you how to get your home ready to sell. Teaching homeowners how to present their homes for the quickest sale at the best price is becoming a huge business. If you enjoy blending real estate with design, then a home staging business might be the career path for you.
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Assess your creativity. When you're at home, if you find yourself constantly looking for new ways to arrange and decorate your rooms, that's a clue. You probably enjoy taking what's already there and putting a new spin on it, which is a critical quality for a home stager to possess.
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Tap into your inner entrepreneur. To start your own business, you have to be highly self-motivated. This is your own business, so seeking out clients, making appointments and working with realtors falls directly on your shoulders.
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Test your focus before taking the plunge. Try working from home to see if you can do it without getting distracted. When you start your home staging business, you'll most likely be working from a home office rather than renting a space, so the ability to ignore your all of your creature comforts is essential.
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Examine your communication skills. Home staging professionals must relate to and communicate with a wide variety of people and personalities every day. Your potential clients are highly stressed, so you have to be able to communicate calmly yet firmly with them as well as contractors and suppliers.
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Ask others if you're a good listener. To be successful, home stagers have to identify their clients' needs by listening to everything they say and reading between the lines. Staging isn't infusing your own style into a home, but finding out what the home needs to get sold and how you and your clients can work together to achieve that goal.
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Evaluate your interest in current design trends. While you won't be redesigning a home, you still need to know what's in and what works for homebuyers. Having a sense of current design trends helps you help your client to appeal to a wider base of home buyers.
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Look at your own home. Check your kitchen cabinets and counters, closets and pantries and drawers for organization and clutter. If you have a knack for keeping things orderly and can't stand clutter, then you'll have no problem helping clients to do the same in their homes.
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Tips & Warnings
When you're deciding whether to start a home staging business, be sure you're a detail-oriented person. Starting any business requires paying close attention to financial, organizational and creative details.
