Home Staging Careers
If you like the idea of being a home stager, then there are many home staging careers from which you can choose.
This website has taught you all about home staging, from the first steps to selling a home to placing the last accessory in the last staged space. But what if you think you'd like to actually do this for a living. What are your home staging career options? We've outlined a few of our favorite career choices for you in the text below.
- Staging assistant A staging assistant aids a professional home stager in daily job tasks. Such tasks might include moving furnishings, cleaning and decluttering before staging, unpacking staging accessories and furnishings, running errands, managing the stagers' inventory, answering inquiries,
hanging artwork and clerical tasks. Most stagers start out as some kind of assistant unless they start their own business.
Being a staging assistant is good training, somewhat like an apprenticeship, and a great place to learn the skills of the trade.
- Professional home stager A professional stager is a person who makes their living from staging homes for sale. Usually, this person has a few years of staging experience and
may or may not own their own business. A professional stager
will take responsibility for developing a comprehensive staging plan and executing that plan for a homeowner or real estate professional including all the tasks involved in the plan. Home stagers do not have to be professionally licensed, nor do they need a degree or certification of any kind to be a home stager -- although the training and/or title may be helpful in securing new clients. Other than self employment, stagers work for staging companies, furniture rental companies, builders, real estate agents and agencies, or they might be interior designers or decorators with a home staging sideline.
- Home staging trainer A home staging trainer instructs and trains people to become home stagers. Trainers can work for home staging franchises, they can be instructors or teachers at local colleges, or they can provide continuing education for real estate professionals. Many trainers travel all across the country conducting seminars at various cities along the way. Most, if not all, trainers have had extensive staging experience and supplement their income with fees from the classes that they give.
- Empty home stager A stager that specializes in staging brand new homes for sale falls under the category of an empty home stager. Instead of working with real estate agents and homeowners, this type of stager works exclusively with builders to get their unsold inventory sold more quickly. Empty townhomes and unsold condominiums also would be staged by this category of stager.
- Marketing assistant for a staging company Oftentimes, a professional stager will elect to hire a marketing person to handle the promotional activities of a staging business. This person would be in charge of advertising, promotions, direct mail campaigns, and might also function as a real estate agent liaison. A good grasp of staging basics is necessary to do this job in order to communicate the value added proposition of staging effectively to potential prospects.
- Inventory manager An inventory manager at a staging company has the responsibility of procuring and maintaining the store of staging furnishings and accessories owned by that company. Keeping track of what is needed, and when its needed and where it is needed are all daily tasks of an inventory manager.
- Furniture rental account manager Many stagers work with furniture rental companies. Account managers at these companies work closely with professional home stagers to fulfill their furnishing needs for particular staging jobs. Functions might include account solicitation, problem solving,
and account maintenance.
See the right home staging career choice for you? We also have information
for you on
training to be a home stager
and
home staging schools.
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