Introduction to Home Staging

Has anyone signed up for their staging course, completed it, and been offered work with them?

I’m worried that it’s like a lot of those work from home scams, where you complete the project and then haven’t done well enough to get hired.

Please be specific with your comments.

Anyone who conducts a search at google.com for "haverhill staging" scam, will bring up some 153 results which simply state: "It’s a scam!"

Good luck!

Re: Haverhill staging course. Daren avoids to answer the tricky question if the course is accredited and registered? Is it’s Certificate recognized? Many promises given, too good to be true. How Haverhill assists in locating real customers for trainees staging assignments? This is the major problem for me and it doesn’t mean I’m not a "doer’ as he said.

Is that for students with disabilities in special education classes?

Anybody have any interesting ideas as to how to stage a house in an "open house" setting? I’ve heard of like baking cookies, but i’m just looking for more interesting ideas that you all might have.

Thanks.

I just received my certification in February.

Main things are declutter & depersonalize. Remove as many personal items as possible. No religous items! Box up what’s not needed. Store in the garage if needed.

Create vignetttes (groups of 3 accent items) on tables, counters & remove EVERYTHING else. Out of sight, out of mind.

A dining/kitchen table could have say 4 place settings (or just 4 nice charger plates), with nice glassware & napkins. Don’t go overboard.

Envision how you see furniture in a furniture store. If furniture is pushed all the way against walls, pull them out & create conversation areas. Get rid of magazines & mail.

Turn on all lights, open all drapes. Light candles (my teacher was mixed on whether to use scented ones or not) If you chose to have some sort of scent going, be it candles or cookies, have something not overpowering. Maybe those quickie breakfast pasteries in the oven during the early part & then cookies later in the day, plus you can serve them to the guests.

Nice flower pots at the front porch/steps. Trim the grass, shrubs, remove moss from walkway cracks, don’t overlook cleaning the street gutter & removing any debris from yard & walkways.

The main idea/principle is that when there are personal items in homes or clutter, trash in the yard, the buyer often gets focused on looking at those items rather than the home & it’s appeal.

We are having our first open house on sunday and need some really good ideas that will sell our house fast. Weve already drop it 20,000 any ideas appreciated

Clear out any "clutter". You want it to look almost like a hotel suite would. People coming in need to be able to easily visualize their own "stuff" in there, and that’s hard with a lot of someone else’s "stuff"obstructing the view. Very few, if any personal pictures. No knick knacks. Take all pictures and magnets off your fridge. You want to arrange the furniture to make the rooms look as spacious as possible. There are a couple of shows on TV that talk about the kinds of things to do. One is called "Design to Sell" and the other is called "Sell This House." They’re pretty good to watch. Sometimes they go a little overboard–tearing down walls and stuff–but they’re good to get ideas from.
Here’s the web address to the show "Sell This House". http://www.aetv.com/sell_this_house/index.jsp

I’ve tried house training my golden retriever pup using a few programs, but none of them have worked.

I looked at this program here:
http://www.kingdomofpets.com/doghousetraining/?aff=fioravanti

I found it in a blog about house training golden retrievers, and it looks good, but I don’t know if its just another one of those books full of fluff.

Can you tell me if its good? and if not, what would you recommend?

Thanks

Take the dog out every two to three hours for about a month. When you are not accompanying the dog have it in a kennel (large enough for it to stand it but no more than 1.75 its length. What you are doing here is training the do that out side is where you do your deed. Dogs do not like to go in their personal space, so they should not go in the kennel. Then the following month take the dog out every four to five hours, and again in the kennel when not attended. Then for the next month do every five to six hours. Every time the dog goes inside, go back one step. For example if you are taking the dog out every five to six hours go back to every four to five. When you feel it is time, i.e. no mishaps you can let the dog out of the kennel when alone. They should be house broken by this point. It takes patience and time, but works. My mom worked with show dogs, and the kennel is your best tool. To make them more comfortable with the kennel cover it with blankets to feel more like a den.

If Obama wins the nomination , Nov. is a long time away, andObama’s "Castle of Fluff" will be revealed and collapse unto itself, will Mr Mc Cain then not look like a shining Hero?

IF OBAMA WINS THE NOMINATION AND PRESIDENCY
WE WILL HAVE A GREAT INSPIRATIONAL PRESIDENCY
IN RESIDENCY

GO OBAMA.. CASTLE OF INSPIRATION
NOT CASTLE OF CRYNATION

NOT CASTLE OF FLUFF OF MISCALCULATION
BUT CASTLE OF POSITIVE CALCULATIONS

MCCAIN THE HERO OF OLD
IS TODAY MORE LIKE NERO I’M TOLD

CRYING ABOUT HIS ESCAPES
WILL NOT GO WELL WITH AMERICA….. MATES

LET CLINTON SHOUT AND SCREAM
I’LL STICK WITH A MAN WHO HAS A DREAM
THAT DOESN’T RAGE
BUT WANTS CHANGE.

I’LL TAKE BARRACK ( WHOSE NAME MEANS BLESSING
THE GREAT MAN WITH INSPIRATION I’M CONFESSING.

I’m interested in home staging as a career and the training on this website seems to be all about opening your own business. I’m wondering if they a) give any instruction on staging itself; and b) if the support and training they do give is worth it?

It is mostly a scam. The idea of staging beautiful homes appeals to thousands of people; it doesn’t have any educational requirements; there is no training required to begin working….. so it has a universal appeal to people who need a job. That is what Home Staging takes advantage of. They promise you the world and give you nothing in return. Avoid them. It is not worth it.

I know Home Staging is a very common thing in the US, to sell your home faster basically but I was wondering whether people know of something like this in the Netherlands (especially Friesland) as well.

idk

A boy racer and his fluff have moved in next door. They don’t seem to go to work, yet they have 2 new cars. Must be mummy and daddy’s money.
All day they do DIY, talk loudly, walk around loudly, bang doors and play trance music.

Does anyone else have the boy racer type neighbour who is there, in the house, everyday ALL day?
Tony R, I doubt it, they aren’t clever enough to work out how to use a computer.

I live next to an ex Police Patrol-car driver, who, now that he no longer works and enforces the Law, thinks he has to lay it down at every opportunity; he leans over our fence and wags his finger as he whines!
I keep sticking pins into a wax model of his big end but nothing seems to happen to him or his car!

I mean really people …has your Entertainment Editor been promoted to top Editor or what? What is all the celebrity drivel doing on a ‘hard’ news board???

hi lv. i dont know . but this q looked lonley..