COLLIN COLLEGE, Plano,TX is offering an 8 hour Home Staging CE course February 7th through 16th 2012, Tuesdays & Thursdays 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM.
Please Note: This is the only session being offered for the Winter Term 2012. Next course offering will be in the Fall of 2012.
This fun, practical and highly informative Home Staging class is designed for the home seller, Realtor or ANYONE who would like to know more about marketing and preparing a home for resale using home staging.
Please note: Realtors: This course does NOT provide TREC MCE hours. However I do offer and teach a TREC approved separate 2 hour MCE course should your office be interested in that.
Learn directly from a working North Texas professional home stager the benefits of home staging and how staging a home can help you achieve a faster sales time and the best price for your home for sale in the North Texas market.
Please note: This Collin College home staging course is NOT designed for those interested in starting a home staging business.
This Frisco, TX home featured above sat on the market OVER 200 DAYS this year BEFORE STAGING and showed how you see it in the first photo. AFTER consulting and light STAGING with some accessories provided by Home Star Staging in key rooms of the house, these sellers SOLD their home in 27 DAYS for 97% OF the LIST price! Staging works!
REGISTRATION IS OPEN NOW!
1. GO TO http://www.collin.edu/
2. LOCATE Continuing Education Courses at the left side of the page then find Workforce Development. Go to Real Estate.
3. Under Real Estate you'll find HOME STAGING
WHEN: Tuesdays & Thursdays February 7th through 16th, 2012 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM.
WHERE: Collin College Courtyard Center 4800 Preston Park Boulevard Plano, TX 75093-Call to register by phone: 972.985.3711
Address & Directions: 4800 Preston Park Boulevard, 75093 google map | yahoo map
Investment: Only $69 for 8 hours of fun, informational, and practical instruction from North Texas' own home staging expert!
Class instruction provided by Professional Home Stager and North Texas home staging expert
Karen Otto, RESA-Pro, owner of Home Star Staging www.homestarstaging.com
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Home Star Staging is a qualified, insured home staging company and we are always here for you North Texas!
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There is still time to register if you are a MetroTex Realtor member for the Real Estate Staging for Realtors 101 MCE! The RESA Dallas Chapter is proud to join MetroTex to offer a 2 hr MCE credit home staging course exclusively for Realtors called;
Real Estate Staging 101: The Realtor's Guide to Real Estate Staging.
This course will be offered through the education department of Metrotex and taught by one of the RESA Dallas Chapter approved instructors. Registration may be done online or in person the day of the class (see flyer below for details)
As the RESA Texas State President I a honored to be teaching the first offering on October 26th, 2011 from 10 AM to 12 Noon! There will also be other member instructors of the RESA Dallas Chapter on hand to answer questions you may have after class. We're excited to bring our DFW Realtors this exciting and informative course!
Please check out the flyer for more details:
Today's client had completed some of the staging recommendations we had discussed during our 2 hour home staging consultation on Monday. In fact when he called to confirm further home staging services for his Mckinney, TX home with Home Star Staging he asked if I could reduce the rate based on the amount of work he did. From what he told me, I was able to estimate an hour less of time to complete our portion of it. I was very happy that he felt motivated and empowered to do some of the work prior to our staging appointment and he, as many home sellers are today, was on a budget.
Using almost 95% of the seller's own furnishings (no furniture rental required!), Home Star Staging offset those items with a few budget friendly accessories from our inventory. He kindly left us to our work today and when he came home he returned to a very different house!
After taking a tour of his newly transformed home he admitted that before I came he thought,
" I didn't know what else you could really do since I'd already done a lot."
With our team we actually did a lot MORE than he realized we could or would. It was a classic furniture and decor swap from different rooms of the house.
After seeing the transformation my client said,
"Now I know you know what you're doing and why staging is important!".
That just made my day!
I explained to him that I understood his feelings and I was grateful that he called us back. During the staging consultation I try to provide every detail I can to help a client stage a home themselves if they choose however once we're onsite to complete the plan, staging can evolve and becomes an organic process, and often things will change from what was originally planned. The work he had done was great, but it was not staging.
Seeing a home through the eyes of a home stager is much different than someone who is not and even with recommendations to work from it often takes the skill and talent of a professional to do the job right.
As I was about to leave one final question came from my client, he wanted to know once he moved if we could come and do this at his new place...of course!!
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For this dining room the “staging” was actually done prior to my initial home staging consultation. But that was part of the problem.
In a well-intentioned effort to stage their own home without the assistance of a professional home stager, the sellers of this Frisco, TX home unfortunately went over board and the room was too decluttered in the initial go-round for sale. Under the helm of their new Realtor Home Star Staging was called in to consult with and help them revive the then off- the-market listing.
This home had lingered on the market for the better half of almost a year too, and it should not have!
The room had good bones, a nice neutral color and furniture. What it lacked was warmth, depth and even the desire to linger; key ingredients to a home buyer’s decision making process. It was just blah and had no character. It needed a serious injection of charm and personality.
Here’s how the dining room presented on my first visit:
Dining room before staging by Home Star Staging
Although just “blah” may seem like a simple fix (and it truly is with the help of a professional at times) because it didn’t show well the first time out, the house had lingered over 200 days on the market and that time meant money! And truly, there was no reason it should.
This is the newly transformed dining room staged for sale. Accessory prop package and staging services provided by Home Star Staging.
Dining Room After Staging by Home Star Staging
With some key pieces of home decor, artwork, lamps, chair rearrangement and a “suite buffet” being brought in (this is actually a dresser from a back bedroom in the seller’s house that worked perfectly for a buffet in this space), the room finally felt right and it made a warm, welcoming impression when it went back on the market newly transformed.
Dining room centerpiece - prop inventory provided by Home Star Staging
This space went from “leave me alone” to “welcome to our home”!
The results speak for themselves in the successful & quick sale! Here's what their Realtor wrote:
"We all appreciate the great work you did. The home sold in 28 days at 97% of asking price." - B. Hafer, Dave Perry Miller & Associates
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Home Star Staging is a qualified, insured home staging company and we are always here for you North Texas!
TX, OK or NW LA? I can help! I'm a course trainer for the Staging and Redesign team!
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There is never a second chance to make a first impression. Make your HOME the STAR attraction in the competitive TX Real Estate market. I don't sell houses but I help houses sell! Call 469-964-0516
I am a Home Staging Professional in Plano, TX specializing in marketing and merchandising resale properties in the Collin and North Dallas County, Texas real estate market and I am an expert in the field of home staging.
With a passion for Real Estate and a diversified marketing background, I understand the relationship of each to give homes for sale a competitive edge. I work to get my client's property sold quickly and for top dollar. Home Staging is a marketing tool in preparing a property for sale much like any other marketable product.
Please visit my website at Home Star Staging for more details .
I am passionate about educating the Real Estate Community on the benefits of home staging.
Offered throughout the year at the Preston/Park Courtyard Center campus, I teach an affordable, highly informative CE course on Home Staging at Collin College, Plano, TX, for Realtors, Sellers, Investors and anyone else interested in learning more about how home staging can improve your bottom line.
Home Star Staging specializes in staging to SELL! Staging is a marketing tool that every home seller and Realtor should have in their arsenol.
I welcome your questions about getting your home ready for sale whether you're a Realtor or an individual Home Seller. If you need information or tips to help you get ready to sell, I can show you how home staging can help you achieve your home sales goals and get you on track to prepare your home for sale and sell your home faster and for the most profit.
While locally serving Collin, North Dallas & portions of Denton counties, Home Star Staging is available to Home Sellers, Realtors, Investors, Home Builders and anyone with a desire of the knowledge about how home staging can work for you. Please call 469-964-0516 or email karen@homestarstaging.com. Thank you!
Education, Memberships & Associations:
On a Personal Note
I am a native Miamian,(FL) who was transplanted to Texas in the fall of 2001 when my husband, took a job transfer here. It was the hardest move of my life but also the most pivotal. It took me from the comfort zone of the familiar territory I grew up in and made me branch out into new and exciting adventures. I thank God for the priviledge and honor of being the proud mom of two healthy, beautiful children. I want for them to see their mom as a role model and a contributor to our family's life in more ways than just being "mom". We all wear many hats, but our children need to know that it's OK to learn and grow even as an adult, that I don't know everything and that's all right. What an eye opener to realize that life is a never ending source of adventures and learning experiences and each day brings a new chapter.
I love the saying that, "the best things in life aren't things at all" No words have rung truer to me.
I wish all of you the best things in life!
Check out my staging articles at 
I hold a Bachelor's Degree in Marketing from Florida International University and am an expert in the field of home staging and a RESA-Pro Home Staging Professional. With a diversified background in marketing in the corporate and private sector, and an eye for design I know what it takes to get a house seen and sold. I look at a property through the "buyer's eyes".
Home Star Staging provides these and other services to assist you with the sale of your home;
Let us take your house from "For Sale" to SOLD!
Call 469-964-0516 for additional details.
"There's never a second chance to make a first impression!"
What Clients have to say
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"Karen, you have done an excellent, fabulous job on my listing. You probably provided 30-40 times of value, for the price I paid. [Verbal Consultation] You have exceeded my expectations by a great extent. I am going to utilize your services for all my professional and also, personal needs. For a person as skilled as you are, you have absolutely no airs, you are very flexible, friendly and personal which makes you wonderful to work with."
S. Chaparala, Realtor®, DFW Realties, Dallas, TX
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" ...Home staging is a concept that we were unfamiliar with when we started the process of preparing our home for market. Karen came to our home to introduce us to the concept. While walking through our house, talking things over with Karen, our home started to change; it was becoming a commodity to sell. It was no longer our things that mattered; it was about making the house look its best... Needless to say, I came home to a transformed and beautiful house...I believe the real key to everything was de-cluttering and placing key pieces of furniture and paintings in locations that emphasized the high points of our house while making our home inviting to others. When someone comes into my house I am proud to show it. We also have received many compliments from agents showing our home.. Both Dave and I are sold on the Home Staging Concept!"
David and Catherine D., Home Sellers, Plano, TX
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"I have to tell you that the home you helped stage [verbal consultation] at Old Shepard Place in Plano had an offer in 2.5 days! The other home you staged hasn't been listed yet. But both clients were so satisfied with your suggestions & assistance that they commented they loved the way their homes felt after staging & promised to never go back to the clutter again."
C.Hahn, Realtor®, Coldwell Banker Plano, TX
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"We closed on the house today. I just wanted to thank you very much for all of your hard work. I think staging the house is what made it sell so quickly. I was so impressed with your professionalism and attention to detail. I did not have to worry about a thing. I will definitely use your services again."
Kathy H., Investor, Frisco, TX
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"I cannot tell you how impressed we are with what you did at our
house! We love it! Thanks again!"
Paul B., Home Seller, Dallas, TX
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"I just wanted to let you know you did a beautiful job staging my home using my things and yours. You positioned the furniture and nick nacks to accent the features of the house and you were very aware of height and proportion. Your ideas of what to remove from the house and what to repaint were very helpful. I loved how it all looked when you were done! The absolutely best part was that we had a great offer on our home 10 days later! Karen, your services were invaluable! When we move into our new home In the northeast, I am planning to use your ideas for paint and to arrange my furniture and things. Thanks so much! "
Angie M. Home Seller, Plano, TX
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