How to handle real estate agents requesting cheap home staging

Whether you live in a small town or a major center in Canada, the US or abroad, you’re going to hear about home stagers charging less for their time than you.

Most of these “price complaints” will likely come from real estate agents who are already afraid their clients will want them to pay for your services. Since agents make the same amount of commission regardless of what their marketing expenses are on a property, their goal is to spend as little as possible to ensure the widest profit margin.

For some more advice on dealing with real estate agents requesting cheap staging, visit this post on the Home Staging Business Report.

Home stagers help real estate investors

Imagine for a moment you're a new real estate investor or “house flipper.” You’ve just finished sinking a fortune into renovating your first property and you’re sure this is going to be the first of many successful “flips.” Instead, month after month of mortgage payments become due with no interest from potential buyers.

This was the money-losing and stressful scenario faced by clients of Paige Holm and Aron Bailey Bruser, Staging Diva Graduates and co-owners of Win-Win Home Staging and Redesign.

Read their "proof home staging works" story at the Home Staging Business Report.