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Why Home Stagers Don’t Need to Provide Furniture Rentals – Part 1
Written by: Debra GouldArticle Overview: The Staging Diva® explains why, contrary to popular belief, it isn’t necessary for home stagers to carry their own inventory of furniture to rent to homeowners.
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Why Home Stagers Don’t Need to Provide Furniture Rentals – Part 1
Many home stagers mistakenly believe they need to carry an inventory of furniture to rent to their home staging clients who have vacant properties, or need new pieces to supplement existing furniture for a resale home on the market. Sadly, many of these stagers end up broke and out of business with nothing but a warehouse full of furniture and a pile of debt.
These unfortunate stagers get so caught up in what they think other home stagers are doing, they forget to look at home staging as a business and consider where and how they will make a profit. They buy truck loads of furniture on credit believing that’s what home stagers need to do. Then, to add insult to injury, they don’t mark up the price properly and never recover their costs.
Their inventory sits in a warehouse racking up storage fees and often when it's not in their warehouse it's sitting in a client's house on the real estate market that may not be selling as fast as they hoped.
One Boston stager made the classic mistake of renting out her furniture for an indefinite period without even making sure that she would collect rental fees along the way. With each new assignment to stage a vacant house, she'd go out and buy more furniture, lured in by those "don't pay a cent events" where you can buy furniture now on credit and pay for it in a year or two. Before she knew it, she owned enough furniture to fully furnish 10 vacant homes and that inevitable day when she'd have to pay for it all was fast approaching!
In part two of this article series, learn what options you have as a home stager that will help you avoid having this same scenario happen in your business.
Why Home Stagers Don’t Need to Provide Furniture Rentals – Part 2
Home Staging Services Don’t All Have To Be Done By The Stager
Home Stagers Should Never Waive Their Consultation Fee
No One Needs to Know You’re a Part-Time Home Stager
Home staging competition may not be tough as you think
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