A Home Manager is not a Home Stager. Big Difference. Given "Staging" is the newest buzz word...everyone is using it. Accredited, Licensed Home Staging Professionals (see www.stagedhomes.com) do not occupy or place tenants in you house. Rather they provide a service, a marketing tool to assist in getting a home sold quickly and for top dollar. They have been trained to show the best features and square footage of the property. They have been trained to create a warm, welcoming, desirable enviorment. They have been trained to create an enviorment where potential homebuyers can visualize themselves living there. Home staging is a useful and valuable tool. How valuable? Well, builders invest in model homes and as most sellers soon discover, their biggest competition is the new home market. Professional Home Stagers are paid for the services they provide. Not by collecting rent from tenants they've placed in a vacant home. They do not rely on attractive (hopefully), used furniture owned by a tenant. They specifically select and provide or provide the resource for furniture designed to appeal to a wide number of potential homebuyers, in complimentary colors and scaled to fit the specifications of the home. They do not sell or place ads to sell the furniture out of the house while it is on the market. Another tactic used by furniture wholesalers and retailers calling themselves stagers and promising to stage your house for "free" if you allow them to advertise and sell their furniture from your home while it is on the market. "STAGING"...yes it's a growing business. 80% of all homes on the market in Calif are staged. Yes, it's heading our way and for good reason. It works as most real estate agents and homeowners that have used professional, full time home stagers will attest. So now you know the difference from the stagers in Randy's example and a Accredited, Trained, Licensed Home Stager who is typically a member of the International Association of Staging Professionals, who as a member adheres to policy and a strict guide of ethics and is paid as any professional is paid , fees for service. Randy Travis did a grave dis-service to those of us who, in staging homes for a living, value our reputation, take pride in the services we provide, are growing our business by fulfilling a need in marketing porperty and creating a win, win situation in a highly declining and competitive real estate market. Marika Mensch Atlanta Staged Homes.
