Home Staging Business

If you like meeting people, have a design flair and enjoy decorating, then a home staging business could be for you.

Home staging is the process of redecorating a house prior to sale, to ensure it appeals to largest cross section of buyers and gets the highest possible price.

Entrepreneur Magazine has rated this as one of the hot opportunities for the year, and with exposure on HGTV’s Designed To Sell and A&E’s sell this house, the general market is more receptive to home staging proposals.

Home staging is becoming big business, as sellers, especially in a tight market look for every opportunity to maximize the sale price of their home.

If you have a flair for design and a love of real estate this could develop into a profitable business for you.

By setting up as a home based business your start-up costs could be minimal say $500 to $1000 for an office in your home, plus marketing materials.

Hourly rates in the order of $80 - $100 per hour are achievable, with $1000 per job a realistic expectation.

There is also the opportunity to sell other services. Since much of the work involves de-cluttering a home and creating market pleasing effects, there is the opportunity to also charge for junk-hauling, color consultations, move arranging etc.

Here are some links for further information:

Home Staging Success: How to Ebook showing you step by step how to get started

Staging Diva: Site offering training and contacts for home stagers

StagedHomes.com: Courses and Resources for home stagers

Entrepreneur Magazine: Source article for this post