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Staging your home for sale and becoming a Professional Home Stager with Staged Homes®


Before & After logo.  Credit: D. Rucker

Are you planning to sell your home soon? Want top dollar? In the current buyer’s market it’s more important than ever to show your home in the best light possible. Cleaning, decluttering and staging prior to putting your house on the market is a worthwhile investment in time and money.

If you have years of accumulated clutter, decluttering is the first step. Hiring a professional organizer or team of organizers can speed up the process and get your house ready for the next step, which is staging. According to StagedHomes.com, “Home Staging is professionally preparing homes for sale, so that they appeal to the most amount of buyers and generate the highest price in the least amount of time on market.”

Living Room Before.  Photo Credit: D. Rucker

 “Sellers can’t afford not to stage their home, no matter what the market is”, says, Dana Rucker of Before and After Design, based in Maryland. “I transform the home so it looks like a model a buyer would readily want to move into. The homes that I’ve staged have sold faster and for market value.” 

After ten years of interior decorating and learning from her mother who was an interior designer, staging seemed like the next logical step in Dana’s career. 
Accredited Professional Home Stagers (ASP®), like Dana, have taken the Staged Homes professional training course. During the training, Dana says that she received valuable information and hands-on experience, and the entire process was seamless and fun!

Staged Living Room After - Space feels larger. Photo Credit: D. Rucker

 

Professional Home Staging is presently one of the fastest growing careers and the service is highly sought after by Realtors and Real Estate Agents prior to putting their client’s homes on the market.  If you’ve been thinking about becoming a Professional Home Stager, you have the opportunity to participate in a Staged Homes 2 or 3 day training class, coming to Columbia, MD on April 21-April 25, 2010.  Staged Homes is also offering some promotional specials if you register before April 15th, 2010. Visit StagedHomes.com  to learn more, or contact Official ASP Course Trainer, Jennie Norris, ASPM®, IAHSP® at 303-717-7918 or by email at jennie@stagedhomes.com.

If you are planning to sell your home soon and live in the Baltimore or Washington, DC area, contact ASP® and Interior Decorator, Dana Rucker, to find out how you can sell your home faster and for the most money.  Dana can be reached at dana@beforeandafterdesign.net or at (301) 526-6224.

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